EB-3 month by month
Where a priority date sat in each of the 36 bulletins from October 2023 to September 2026.
EB-3: Skilled workers and professionals.
The record for this category
Everything below is drawn from the published issues and is shown before anything is entered. The tool underneath adds one thing to it: where a particular priority date sat in each of those issues.
| Country | Final Action Dates | Dates for Filing | Moved, 12 mo | Longest freeze | Backward steps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All chargeability areas except those listed | 01 Sep 2024 | C (current, no wait) | 17.1 in 12 mo | 4 mo | 2 |
| China, mainland born | 01 Jan 2022 | 08 Jan 2022 | 13 in 12 mo | 8 mo | 1 |
| India | 01 Jan 2014 | 15 Jan 2015 | 7.4 in 12 mo | 4 mo | 0 |
| Mexico | 01 Sep 2024 | C (current, no wait) | 17.1 in 12 mo | 4 mo | 2 |
| Philippines | 01 Aug 2023 | 01 Jan 2024 | 5.7 in 12 mo | 6 mo | 2 |
How far the countries have drifted apart, and how strongly the October reset shows up here, are set out on the category page.
Backward steps on record
The table above counts them by country column: 7 backward steps in this category over the whole record. Each one is dated and named, with the dates it moved between, on the category page.
How the movement is distributed
Counted over the 36 issues published here and all 5 country columns of this category, on the Final Action Dates chart. One comparison is one column between two consecutive issues.
Both issues carried a cut-off in 175 of those comparisons: the cut-off moved forward in 80 of them, stood still in 88, and moved backwards in 7. The same steps by size, ignoring direction: no movement in 88, a month or less (31 days or fewer) in 43, one to three months (32 to 92 days) in 25, and more than three months (over 92 days) in 19.
The longest unbroken advance ran 6 issues in a row, December 2024 to May 2025, for India, gaining 5.4 months of cut-off across that stretch. The largest single advance on record is 23.5 months, for All areas, Mexico and Philippines, in October 2024.
The widest the columns of this category have ever stood apart in one issue is 128 months, in August 2026, with India behind All areas and Mexico and 2 country columns somewhere between the two. In September 2026 the same gap is 128 months.
Where one priority date sat
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Transcribed from the Visa Bulletin published by U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs. How this data is checked · Movement and pace for EB-3