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F1 month by month

Where a priority date sat in each of the 36 bulletins from October 2023 to September 2026.

F1: Unmarried adult children of citizens.

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.

Aug 14Jan 16Jul 17Dec 18Jun 20Jan 24May 24Sep 24Jan 25May 25Sep 25Jan 26May 26Sep 26
Published cut-offOne month per month
Current cut-offs and long-run behavior for F1, by country of chargeability.
CountryFinal Action DatesDates for FilingMoved, 12 moLongest freezeBackward steps
All chargeability areas except those listed22 Jan 202001 Feb 202042.3 in 12 mo5 mo0
China, mainland born22 Jan 202001 Feb 202042.3 in 12 mo5 mo0
India22 Jan 202001 Feb 202042.3 in 12 mo5 mo0
Mexico01 Jan 200801 Dec 200832.3 in 12 mo5 mo0
Philippines01 May 201322 Apr 20159.5 in 12 mo14 mo0

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

Every column in the table above reads zero, across all 36 issues published here.

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 61 of them and stood still in the other 114, never once moving backwards. The same steps by size, ignoring direction: no movement in 114, a month or less (31 days or fewer) in 7, one to three months (32 to 92 days) in 15, and more than three months (over 92 days) in 39.

The longest unbroken advance ran 3 issues in a row, July 2026 to September 2026, for All areas, China and India, gaining 28.7 months of cut-off across that stretch. The largest single advance on record is 22.7 months, for Mexico, in November 2024.

The widest the columns of this category have ever stood apart in one issue is 165.3 months, in March 2024, with Mexico behind All areas, China and India and 1 country column somewhere between the two. In September 2026 the same gap is 144.7 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 F1