Your position month by month
The site publishes 36 bulletins, October 2023 to September 2026. Pick a category to see where a priority date sat in each of them, how the gap moved, and whether the cut-off ever fell back behind it.
This is a record of what was published. Where it projects forward, the pace is one you choose, and the projection is shown with the error that method has actually made on this data.
Employment-based
- EB-1Priority workersThe all-areas column has been current in every issue from October 2023 to September 2026: no cut-off, so nothing to measure.
- EB-2Advanced degree or exceptional abilityThe all-areas cut-off moved 27.3 months between October 2023 and March 2026, 29 months apart; a cut-off was published in 30 of the 36 issues in that span. Current by September 2026. The cut-off fell back in 1 issue along the way.
- EB-3Skilled workers and professionalsThe all-areas cut-off moved 33 months over the 35 months from October 2023 to September 2026. The cut-off fell back in 2 issues along the way.
- EB-3 Other WorkersUnskilled labor, under two years of trainingThe all-areas cut-off moved 20 months over the 35 months from October 2023 to September 2026. The cut-off fell back in 1 issue along the way.
- EB-4Certain special immigrantsThe all-areas cut-off moved 47.4 months between October 2023 and September 2026, 35 months apart; a cut-off was published in 30 of the 36 issues in that span. The cut-off fell back in 1 issue along the way.
- EB-4 Religious WorkersNon-minister special immigrant religious workersThe all-areas cut-off moved 47.4 months between November 2023 and September 2026, 34 months apart; a cut-off was published in 22 of the 36 issues in that span. Unavailable in October 2023. The cut-off fell back in 1 issue along the way.
- EB-5 UnreservedInvestors outside the set-aside poolsThe all-areas column has been current in every issue from October 2023 to September 2026: no cut-off, so nothing to measure.
- EB-5 RuralRural set-aside, 20 percentThe all-areas column has been current in every issue from October 2023 to September 2026: no cut-off, so nothing to measure.
- EB-5 High UnemploymentTargeted employment area set-aside, 10 percentThe all-areas column has been current in every issue from October 2023 to September 2026: no cut-off, so nothing to measure.
- EB-5 InfrastructureInfrastructure set-aside, 2 percentThe all-areas column has been current in every issue from October 2023 to September 2026: no cut-off, so nothing to measure.
Family-sponsored
- F1Unmarried adult children of citizensThe all-areas cut-off moved 60.7 months over the 35 months from October 2023 to September 2026.
- F2ASpouses and minor children of permanent residentsThe all-areas cut-off moved 90.4 months over the 35 months from October 2023 to September 2026.
- F2BUnmarried adult children of permanent residentsThe all-areas cut-off moved 47 months over the 35 months from October 2023 to September 2026.
- F3Married children of citizensThe all-areas cut-off moved 69.4 months over the 35 months from October 2023 to September 2026.
- F4Siblings of adult citizensThe all-areas cut-off moved 54 months over the 35 months from October 2023 to September 2026.