Visa Bulletin, August 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 01FEB01, in F3 for Mexico. The widest gap between two countries inside one category is 134.8 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 135 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 37.9 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 23 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. Of those: 38 later in September 2026 and 1 on the identical date, with none earlier. The middle difference across them is 24 months, and the largest is 47.7 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, 5 advanced, 3 moved backwards and 67 stood still. On the Dates for Filing chart, 7 advanced and 0 moved backwards.

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

The largest advances

• EB-5 Unreserved for China advanced 22.5 months, from 22JAN14 to 08DEC15. Over the three issues to August 2025 it advanced 22.5 months, and over the twelve it fell back 0.2 months. Backward steps inside that twelve-month window: 1.
• EB-5 Unreserved for India advanced 6.5 months, from 01MAY19 to 15NOV19. Over the three issues to August 2025 it advanced 6.5 months, and over the twelve it fell back 12.6 months. Backward steps inside that twelve-month window: 2.
• F4 for India advanced 3.8 months, from 08JUL06 to 01NOV06. Over the three issues to August 2025 it advanced 4.6 months, and over the twelve it advanced 9.3 months.
• EB-3 for India advanced 1 month, from 22APR13 to 22MAY13. Over the three issues to August 2025 it advanced 1.2 months, and over the twelve it advanced 7 months.
• EB-3 Other Workers for India advanced 1 month, from 22APR13 to 22MAY13. Over the three issues to August 2025 it advanced 1.2 months, and over the twelve it advanced 7 months.

Where the cut-off fell back

• EB-2 for All areas, Mexico and Philippines fell back 1.4 months, from 15OCT23 to 01SEP23. Over the three issues to August 2025 it advanced 2.3 months, and over the twelve it advanced 5.6 months. Backward steps inside that twelve-month window: 1.

By country of chargeability

• All areas: none of the 15 country columns advanced, and 1 fell back.
• China: 1 of 15 country columns advanced, median advance 685 days.
• India: 4 of 15 country columns advanced, median advance 116 days.
• Mexico: none of the 15 country columns advanced, and 1 fell back.
• Philippines: none of the 15 country columns advanced, and 1 fell back.

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.