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Your place in the green card line

Everyone ahead of your priority date in EB-2, EB-3 or EB-3 Other Workers, counted from what USCIS and the State Department publish, and how many years that is at the pace the line got green cards last year.

Who is ahead of you?

Pick a priority date and this fills in: how many people stand ahead of you in this line, where they sit, and how long that is at the pace the line last moved.

Common questions

How is this different from the I-485 queue position?
The I-485 queue position counts only people who have already filed to adjust status in the US, which USCIS publishes by priority date. This counts the whole line: those people, plus everyone with an approved I-140 who can't file yet, plus petitions still waiting for approval. For most priority dates the part that can't file yet is by far the largest.
Why is the answer a range?
USCIS counts approved petitions waiting for a visa number but doesn't say which priority dates they hold, so they're spread by when USCIS approved I-140s, moved back by the time the PERM took. That time is measured for petitions filed since October 2023 and assumed for older ones, and a family's size varies by year. The range carries all of it, and it never goes below what USCIS actually counted.
Does it count my spouse and children?
Yes. USCIS's count of approved petitions is primary applicants only, so each one is multiplied by the number of people DHS measured getting green cards per principal in this category in fiscal 2023 and 2024: about 2.0 for EB-2 and EB-3, and 2.3 to 2.5 for EB-3 Other Workers. The yearly green card figure beside it counts families too, so the two are in the same units.
Where do the years come from?
The people ahead divided by the green cards the line got in fiscal 2024, from Table V of the State Department's Report of the Visa Office, the newest year published. That's one real year's pace, not a forecast. Unused family numbers spill into employment categories after the fact, the bulletin doesn't move at a steady rate, and the count runs high where people give up or hold two petitions, so read it as how long at last year's pace, never as a date.
Why doesn't it subtract people who give up?
Because nobody publishes how many do. Some leave, some switch categories, some get a green card through marriage or another employer, and USCIS says one person can hold more than one approved petition. All of that makes the count run high. Other calculators assume a rate; this one says the count is high and shows where USCIS's own figures let it be checked.
Why does my line say the estimate is rough?
Where filing is open past the final action date, USCIS has counted everyone who filed, so the estimate can be checked against a real number. For EB-2, which mostly adjusts inside the US, a gap of more than double means the spread doesn't fit this line well, and the page shows what the estimate would be if it's off by the same amount everywhere.

Petitions awaiting a visa: USCIS approved employment-based petitions awaiting a visa (uscis.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly Approved I-140, I-360 and I-526 petitions whose beneficiary is still waiting for a visa number, by preference and country of birth, as of the month USCIS states. Primary beneficiaries only, dependents excluded.

I-140 by class and country: USCIS I-140 receipts by class and country of birth (uscis.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly I-140 petitions by the fiscal year USCIS received them and their current status, all countries and the top five, with approvals by class. Counted by filing year, so a recent year is mostly still pending.

I-485 pending inventory has not refreshed in 54 days. It should update monthly, so the figures below are the last ones that arrived rather than the current ones. Source: USCIS employment-based I-485 inventory (uscis.gov) · data through Aug 5, 2026.

visa-annual-limits: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-statistics/immigrant-visa-statistics.html · data through Oct 1, 2025 · yearly The State Department's annual numerical limits and the prior year's usage.

Visa bulletin: adoption.state.gov (the State Department's own page, served to scripts; travel.state.gov refuses them) · data through Sep 2026 · monthly Cutoff dates as the State Department published them each month. Nothing here is forecast.

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