Updated
The May 2023 visa bulletin
Every employment-based cutoff the State Department published for May 2023, on both charts, for the five countries the bulletin lists separately. Beside each cutoff is what it did since the April 2023 bulletin. The newest bulletin held here is November 2026.
What moved since April 2023
Every one of the 45 cells on each chart, by what it did.
Final action dates
Final action dates: 3 advanced, 36 unchanged, 6 went backwards.
Dates for filing
Dates for filing: 1 advanced, 41 unchanged, 3 went backwards.
Final action dates
Each cell shows the cutoff and its move since the April 2023 bulletin.
| Category | All other countries | China | India | Mexico | Philippines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EB-1 priority workers | Current current | Feb 1, 2022 unchanged | Feb 1, 2022 unchanged | Current current | Current current |
| EB-2 advanced degree and NIW | Feb 15, 2022 -136 days | Jun 8, 2019 unchanged | Jan 1, 2011 unchanged | Feb 15, 2022 -136 days | Feb 15, 2022 -136 days |
| EB-3 skilled and professional | Jun 1, 2022 a cutoff returned | Apr 1, 2019 +151 days | Jun 15, 2012 unchanged | Jun 1, 2022 a cutoff returned | Jun 1, 2022 a cutoff returned |
| EB-3 other workers | Jan 1, 2020 unchanged | Apr 15, 2015 +196 days | Jun 15, 2012 unchanged | Jan 1, 2020 unchanged | Jan 1, 2020 unchanged |
| EB-4 special immigrants | Sep 1, 2018 unchanged | Sep 1, 2018 unchanged | Sep 1, 2018 unchanged | Sep 1, 2018 unchanged | Sep 1, 2018 unchanged |
| EB-5 unreserved | Current current | Sep 8, 2015 +62 days | Jun 1, 2018 unchanged | Current current | Current current |
| EB-5 rural set-aside | Current current | Current current | Current current | Current current | Current current |
| EB-5 high-unemployment set-aside | Current current | Current current | Current current | Current current | Current current |
| EB-5 infrastructure set-aside | Current current | Current current | Current current | Current current | Current current |
Dates for filing
Each cell shows the cutoff and its move since the April 2023 bulletin.
| Category | All other countries | China | India | Mexico | Philippines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EB-1 priority workers | Current current | Jun 1, 2022 unchanged | Jun 1, 2022 unchanged | Current current | Current current |
| EB-2 advanced degree and NIW | Dec 1, 2022 unchanged | Jul 8, 2019 unchanged | May 1, 2012 unchanged | Dec 1, 2022 unchanged | Dec 1, 2022 unchanged |
| EB-3 skilled and professional | May 1, 2023 a cutoff returned | Jun 1, 2019 +120 days | Aug 1, 2012 unchanged | May 1, 2023 a cutoff returned | May 1, 2023 a cutoff returned |
| EB-3 other workers | Feb 1, 2020 unchanged | Nov 1, 2015 unchanged | Aug 1, 2012 unchanged | Feb 1, 2020 unchanged | Feb 1, 2020 unchanged |
| EB-4 special immigrants | Oct 1, 2018 unchanged | Oct 1, 2018 unchanged | Oct 1, 2018 unchanged | Oct 1, 2018 unchanged | Oct 1, 2018 unchanged |
| EB-5 unreserved | Current current | Jan 1, 2016 unchanged | Dec 8, 2019 unchanged | Current current | Current current |
| EB-5 rural set-aside | Current current | Current current | Current current | Current current | Current current |
| EB-5 high-unemployment set-aside | Current current | Current current | Current current | Current current | Current current |
| EB-5 infrastructure set-aside | Current current | Current current | Current current | Current current | Current current |
A date means applications with a priority date earlier than it can act that month. Current means every priority date can. Unavailable means none can, usually because the fiscal year's numbers for that category and country are used up. The three EB-5 set-asides are the reserved rural, high-unemployment and infrastructure allocations created in 2022. USCIS publishes their I-485 inventory separately.
Source: the State Department's bulletin page.
Visa bulletin through Nov 2026. How these figures are counted. Spotted an error? Tell us; every fix is dated in the corrections log.
The sources in full
Visa bulletin: travel.state.gov (the bulletin's tables, read in a browser; the site refuses automated clients) · data through Nov 2026 · monthly
What this data includes
Visa bulletin: Cutoff dates as the State Department published them each month. Nothing here is forecast.
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The rules behind these numbers
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