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Every category

Fifteen preference categories across five chargeability areas. Each card carries the current all-areas cut-off and, where that column carried one for long enough to measure, how far it moved over the 12 months to September 2026, with any months it fell back counted separately. Where there was nothing to measure, the card says what the column was doing instead. The pace per month of real time, and the longer history behind it, are on each category page.

Employment-based

  • EB-1

    Priority workers

    C (current, no wait)

    Current in every issue of the last 12 months, all areas.

  • EB-2

    Advanced degree or exceptional ability

    C (current, no wait)

    Moved 13.5 months of cut-off over the 6 months from September 2025 to March 2026, all areas. Current by September 2026.

  • EB-3

    Skilled workers and professionals

    Moved 17.1 months of cut-off over the 12 months from September 2025 to September 2026, all areas.

  • EB-3 Other Workers

    Unskilled labor, under two years of training

    Moved 8.8 months of cut-off over the 12 months from September 2025 to September 2026, all areas.

  • EB-4

    Certain special immigrants

    Moved 29.5 months of cut-off over the 11 months from October 2025 to September 2026, all areas. Unavailable in September 2025.

  • EB-4 Religious Workers

    Non-minister special immigrant religious workers

    Moved 27.4 months of cut-off over the 9 months from December 2025 to September 2026, all areas. Unavailable in September 2025.

  • EB-5 Unreserved

    Investors outside the set-aside pools

    C (current, no wait)

    Current in every issue of the last 12 months, all areas.

  • EB-5 Rural

    Rural set-aside, 20 percent

    C (current, no wait)

    Current in every issue of the last 12 months, all areas.

  • EB-5 High Unemployment

    Targeted employment area set-aside, 10 percent

    C (current, no wait)

    Current in every issue of the last 12 months, all areas.

  • EB-5 Infrastructure

    Infrastructure set-aside, 2 percent

    C (current, no wait)

    Current in every issue of the last 12 months, all areas.

Family-sponsored

  • F1

    Unmarried adult children of citizens

    Moved 42.3 months of cut-off over the 12 months from September 2025 to September 2026, all areas.

  • F2A

    Spouses and minor children of permanent residents

    Moved 47.7 months of cut-off over the 12 months from September 2025 to September 2026, all areas.

  • F2B

    Unmarried adult children of permanent residents

    Moved 34.2 months of cut-off over the 12 months from September 2025 to September 2026, all areas.

  • F3

    Married children of citizens

    Moved 38.7 months of cut-off over the 12 months from September 2025 to September 2026, all areas.

  • F4

    Siblings of adult citizens

    Moved 45.7 months of cut-off over the 12 months from September 2025 to September 2026, all areas.