Visa Bulletin, April 2025

What this issue did

The state of this issue

Counted inside this issue alone, before it is compared with anything published before it.

• Final Action Dates: 44 of 75 country columns carry a cut-off, 21 are current and 10 have no numbers at all. The furthest-back cut-off is 15JAN01, in F3 for Mexico. The widest gap between two countries inside one category is 134.4 months, in F1: Mexico against All areas, China and India, with 1 country somewhere between the two. Current in every column: EB-5 Rural, EB-5 High Unemployment and EB-5 Infrastructure. Current in 6 country columns of EB-1 and EB-5 Unreserved, though not in their other columns. No numbers at all in any column of EB-4 and EB-4 Religious Workers.
• Dates for Filing: 54 of 75 country columns carry a cut-off and 21 are current; every column has numbers. The furthest-back cut-off is 30APR01, in F4 for Mexico. The widest gap between two countries inside one category is 137 months, in F1: Mexico against All areas, China and India, with 1 country somewhere between the two. Current in every column: EB-5 Rural, EB-5 High Unemployment and EB-5 Infrastructure. Current in 6 country columns of EB-1 and EB-5 Unreserved, though not in their other columns.

How far the filing chart runs ahead

Of the 44 country columns where both charts carry a date in this issue, Dates for Filing runs ahead of Final Action Dates in 44 of them. The widest lead is 41 months, in F2A for Mexico. The middle lead is 8 months and the narrowest 14 days.

Where this issue sits in the archive

This is issue 19 of 36 published here, in a record running from October 2023 to September 2026.

Of the 75 country columns on the Final Action Dates chart, a cut-off appears both here and in September 2026, the newest issue published here, in 39 of them. Every one of them stands later in September 2026 than it does here, so the record ends ahead of where this issue leaves it. The middle difference across them is 34.3 months, and the largest is 55.7 months, in F2A for All areas, China, India and Philippines. That compares two ends and nothing in between: it says where these columns stand in each of the two issues, not that the queue only ever moved one way. A column can finish later than it began and still have fallen back on the way, and the category pages count the backward steps an endpoint comparison cannot see.

Of the 75 country columns on the Final Action Dates chart in this issue, 34 advanced, 2 moved backwards and 29 stood still. On the Dates for Filing chart, 16 advanced and 0 moved backwards. The remaining 10 country columns changed between a date, current and unavailable rather than moving.

Everything below is measured against March 2025, the issue immediately before this one.

The largest advances

• F3 for All areas, China and India advanced 9 months, from 01JUL10 to 01APR11. Over the three issues to April 2025 it advanced 9 months, and over the twelve it advanced 18 months.
• F2B for Mexico advanced 6 months, from 01JUL05 to 01JAN06. Over the three issues to April 2025 it advanced 6 months, and over the twelve it advanced 26.3 months.
• EB-2 for China advanced 4.8 months, from 08MAY20 to 01OCT20. Over the three issues to April 2025 it advanced 5.3 months, and over the twelve it advanced 8 months.
• F1 for Philippines advanced 4.2 months, from 08MAR12 to 15JUL12. Over the three issues to April 2025 it advanced 4.2 months, and over the twelve it advanced 4.5 months.
• EB-3 Other Workers for Philippines advanced 4.2 months, from 15JAN21 to 22MAY21. Over the three issues to April 2025 it advanced 5.4 months, and over the twelve it advanced 12.7 months.
• F1 for All areas, China and India advanced 3.7 months, from 22NOV15 to 15MAR16. Over the three issues to April 2025 it advanced 3.7 months, and over the twelve it advanced 13.2 months.

Where the cut-off fell back

• EB-5 Unreserved for China fell back 29.7 months, from 15JUL16 to 22JAN14. Over the three issues to April 2025 it fell back 29.7 months, and over the twelve it fell back 22.7 months. Backward steps inside that twelve-month window: 1.
• EB-5 Unreserved for India fell back 26 months, from 01JAN22 to 01NOV19. Over the three issues to April 2025 it fell back 26 months, and over the twelve it fell back 13 months. Backward steps inside that twelve-month window: 1.

Categories that opened or closed

• EB-4 became unavailable for All areas, China, India, Mexico and Philippines. The category has no numbers left, so nothing in it can be approved while it stays that way.
• EB-4 Religious Workers became unavailable for All areas, China, India, Mexico and Philippines. The category has no numbers left, so nothing in it can be approved while it stays that way.

By country of chargeability

• All areas: 6 of 15 country columns advanced, median advance 110 days.
• China: 6 of 15 country columns advanced and 1 fell back; median advance 114 days.
• India: 8 of 15 country columns advanced and 1 fell back; median advance 61 days.
• Mexico: 7 of 15 country columns advanced, median advance 40 days.
• Philippines: 7 of 15 country columns advanced, median advance 78 days.

Which chart applies for filing

Consular cases are approved against Final Action Dates. Which chart USCIS accepted for adjustment of status that month is published separately by USCIS and has not been transcribed here. How USCIS chooses the filing chart.

Every figure in this section is arithmetic on the transcribed tables: differences between two issues, runs of unchanged months, spreads between two countries in the same issue. The bulletin publishes no reasons, and none are supplied here.