Updated October 16, 2026

I-485 queue position

How many employment-based adjustment applications USCIS had pending ahead of a priority date, from the inventory USCIS publishes each month.

How many are ahead of you?

Employment-based adjustment applications USCIS had pending with a priority date earlier than yours, as of August 5, 2026.

Country of chargeability

Preference category

Priority date year

Priority date month

India · EB-2 advanced degree · January 2013

At least

441

At most

882

The final action cutoff is already past this priority date.

If the supply were

A scenario, not a forecast: choose how many visas a year reach this line and the queue ahead is divided by it. Nobody publishes that supply in advance; the presets are the statute's figures.

Numbers a year

392 applications are published individually. USCIS withheld another 49 cells, each holding between 1 and 10 applications, which is where the gap between the two figures comes from.

Behind you

27,344

Applications the release carries with a later priority date than yours. Anyone who hasn’t filed yet isn’t in this figure.

The whole category

27,785 to 28,226

EB-2 advanced degree applications pending for India, at every priority date USCIS publishes, before 2006 through 2015.

The whole pending inventory, release by release

Every employment-based adjustment application USCIS reports as pending, across all countries and categories, so this is the system rather than your own queue. Counted cells only, which makes each figure a floor.

Aug 5, 2026 263,975
Jul 6, 2026 264,158
Jun 6, 2026 283,367
May 6, 2026 244,422
Apr 3, 2026 211,719
Mar 3, 2026 210,835
Feb 3, 2026 209,146
Jan 2, 2026 205,828
Dec 3, 2025 199,984

Lime: pending with a visa number available (USCIS's part). Yellow: waiting for a number (the bulletin's part). Each release counts what was pending that day, so a month moves with both new filings and decisions. USCIS keeps no archive, so the series grows forward only.

What this can’t tell you

When you'll be reached. That depends on how many visa numbers your category and country receive, which the visa bulletin governs and this inventory doesn't.

4 more limits

This counts applications already filed. Someone with an earlier priority date who could file and hasn't is ahead of you and isn't in this figure, and USCIS publishes nothing that would size that group.
The queue is a snapshot taken once a month. Applications ahead of you leave it by being approved, denied or withdrawn, and new ones can arrive with earlier priority dates when someone transfers an approved petition.
Every family member files their own adjustment application, so a household appears here more than once. These are applications, not cases.
Priority dates earlier than 2006 sit in a single "prior years" column, so a date before then counts as the front of the queue.

USCIS employment-based pending inventory, as of August 5, 2026.

FAQs

What’s the pending inventory?

A count USCIS publishes each month of every employment-based adjustment of status application it has on hand and hasn’t decided, broken down by country of chargeability, preference category and priority date. It’s a count of the queue, taken from USCIS’s own records.

Why a range instead of one number?

USCIS replaces any cell holding between 1 and 10 applications with the letter D, to avoid identifying the people in it. So the exact total genuinely isn’t in the release. The low figure counts every withheld cell as 1 and the high figure counts every one as 10, and the truth is somewhere between them. Other tools resolve each D to 5 and publish a single number, which isn’t a figure USCIS released.

Does this count people who haven't filed yet?

No, and that's the one gap worth knowing about. An I-485 can only be filed once the Dates for Filing chart reaches your priority date, so this inventory is the filed cohort. Anyone with an earlier priority date than yours is past that same gate by definition, so they're counted. Anyone who's eligible and hasn't filed isn't, and USCIS publishes nothing that would size that group.

Why does it say every published application is ahead of me?

Usually because filing hasn’t opened for your priority date yet. USCIS publishes each category only as far as the priority dates it holds applications for, and it holds none past the Dates for Filing cutoff, because nobody past that cutoff has been allowed to file. India’s EB-2 chart stands at January 15, 2015 and its published inventory stops at 2015, which is the same boundary seen from two sides.

Does this tell me when I’ll get my green card?

No. It tells you how many applications sit in front of yours. Turning that into a date needs the rate at which visa numbers are issued in your category and country, which is set annually by statute and rationed month to month through the visa bulletin. The priority date calculator covers that half.

Does everyone in my family count separately?

Yes. A spouse and each child file their own I-485, and each one is a separate pending application in this inventory. That’s why these figures are larger than the number of households waiting.

How current is this?

USCIS publishes the inventory monthly and every figure here carries the release date it came from. USCIS keeps no archive of past releases, so the release-by-release comparison can only grow forward from the ones already captured.

I-485 pending inventory: USCIS employment-based I-485 inventory (uscis.gov) · data through Aug 5, 2026 · monthly

What this data includes

I-485 pending inventory: USCIS's count of pending I-485s by priority date and country. Employment-based only: USCIS does not publish a family-based equivalent.

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The rules behind these numbers

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When it'll likely be decided
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