F3 month by month
Where a priority date sat in each of the 36 bulletins from October 2023 to September 2026.
F3: Married 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.
| Country | Final Action Dates | Dates for Filing | Moved, 12 mo | Longest freeze | Backward steps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All chargeability areas except those listed | 22 Oct 2014 | 01 Nov 2014 | 38.7 in 12 mo | 5 mo | 0 |
| China, mainland born | 22 Oct 2014 | 01 Nov 2014 | 38.7 in 12 mo | 5 mo | 0 |
| India | 22 Oct 2014 | 01 Nov 2014 | 38.7 in 12 mo | 5 mo | 0 |
| Mexico | 01 Jul 2001 | 15 Jul 2001 | 4.9 in 12 mo | 7 mo | 0 |
| Philippines | 22 Feb 2006 | 08 Aug 2006 | 21.7 in 12 mo | 6 mo | 0 |
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 77 of them and stood still in the other 98, never once moving backwards. The same steps by size, ignoring direction: no movement in 98, a month or less (31 days or fewer) in 17, one to three months (32 to 92 days) in 35, and more than three months (over 92 days) in 25.
The longest unbroken advance ran 3 issues in a row, July 2026 to September 2026, for All areas, China and India, gaining 32.2 months of cut-off across that stretch. The largest single advance on record is 29.2 months, for All areas, China and India, in September 2026.
The widest the columns of this category have ever stood apart in one issue is 159.7 months, in September 2026, with Mexico behind All areas, China and India and 1 country column somewhere between the two. That is the newest issue published here, so it is also where the gap stands now.
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 F3