Visa Bulletin, June 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 133.6 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 44.6 months, in F2A for Mexico. The middle lead is 5 months and the narrowest 21 days.

Where this issue sits in the archive

This is issue 21 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 29 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, 20 advanced, 0 moved backwards and 55 stood still. On the Dates for Filing chart, 9 advanced and 0 moved backwards.

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

The largest advances

• EB-2 for All areas, Mexico and Philippines advanced 3.8 months, from 22JUN23 to 15OCT23. Over the three issues to June 2025 it advanced 5 months, and over the twelve it advanced 9 months.
• F1 for All areas, China and India advanced 2.8 months, from 15MAR16 to 08JUN16. Over the three issues to June 2025 it advanced 6.5 months, and over the twelve it advanced 11 months.
• F3 for All areas, China and India advanced 2.7 months, from 01APR11 to 22JUN11. Over the three issues to June 2025 it advanced 11.7 months, and over the twelve it advanced 15.7 months.
• F2B for All areas, China and India advanced 2 months, from 22JUL16 to 22SEP16. Over the three issues to June 2025 it advanced 4 months, and over the twelve it advanced 5.7 months.
• EB-2 for China advanced 2 months, from 01OCT20 to 01DEC20. Over the three issues to June 2025 it advanced 6.8 months, and over the twelve it advanced 10 months.
• EB-3 for All areas, Mexico and Philippines advanced 1.2 months, from 01JAN23 to 08FEB23. Over the three issues to June 2025 it advanced 2.3 months, and over the twelve it advanced 2.6 months. Backward steps inside that twelve-month window: 2.

Where the cut-off fell back

No cut-off on the Final Action Dates chart moved backwards in this issue.

By country of chargeability

• All areas: 6 of 15 country columns advanced, median advance 82 days.
• China: 5 of 15 country columns advanced, median advance 62 days.
• India: 3 of 15 country columns advanced, median advance 82 days.
• Mexico: 3 of 15 country columns advanced, median advance 38 days.
• Philippines: 3 of 15 country columns advanced, median advance 38 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.