Visa bulletin, employment-based charts
The May 2024 visa bulletin
Every employment-based cutoff the State Department published for May 2024, on both charts, for the five countries the bulletin lists separately. Beside each cutoff is what it did since the April 2024 bulletin. The newest bulletin held here is September 2026.
What moved, 45 cells per chart
Final action dates: 0 advanced, 45 unchanged. Dates for filing: 0 advanced, 45 unchanged.
Final action dates
Each cell shows the cutoff and its move since the April 2024 bulletin.
| Category | All other countries | China | India | Mexico | Philippines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EB-1 priority workers | Current current | Sep 1, 2022 unchanged | Mar 1, 2021 unchanged | Current current | Current current |
| EB-2 advanced degree and NIW | Jan 15, 2023 unchanged | Feb 1, 2020 unchanged | Apr 15, 2012 unchanged | Jan 15, 2023 unchanged | Jan 15, 2023 unchanged |
| EB-3 skilled and professional | Nov 22, 2022 unchanged | Sep 1, 2020 unchanged | Aug 15, 2012 unchanged | Nov 22, 2022 unchanged | Nov 22, 2022 unchanged |
| EB-3 other workers | Oct 8, 2020 unchanged | Jan 1, 2017 unchanged | Aug 15, 2012 unchanged | Oct 8, 2020 unchanged | May 1, 2020 unchanged |
| EB-4 special immigrants | Nov 1, 2020 unchanged | Nov 1, 2020 unchanged | Nov 1, 2020 unchanged | Nov 1, 2020 unchanged | Nov 1, 2020 unchanged |
| EB-5 unreserved | Current current | Dec 15, 2015 unchanged | Dec 1, 2020 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 2024 bulletin.
| Category | All other countries | China | India | Mexico | Philippines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EB-1 priority workers | Current current | Jan 1, 2023 unchanged | Apr 1, 2021 unchanged | Current current | Current current |
| EB-2 advanced degree and NIW | Feb 15, 2023 unchanged | Jun 1, 2020 unchanged | May 15, 2012 unchanged | Feb 15, 2023 unchanged | Feb 15, 2023 unchanged |
| EB-3 skilled and professional | Feb 1, 2023 unchanged | Jul 1, 2021 unchanged | Sep 15, 2012 unchanged | Feb 1, 2023 unchanged | Jan 1, 2023 unchanged |
| EB-3 other workers | Dec 15, 2020 unchanged | Jun 1, 2017 unchanged | Sep 15, 2012 unchanged | Dec 15, 2020 unchanged | May 15, 2020 unchanged |
| EB-4 special immigrants | Dec 1, 2020 unchanged | Dec 1, 2020 unchanged | Dec 1, 2020 unchanged | Dec 1, 2020 unchanged | Dec 1, 2020 unchanged |
| EB-5 unreserved | Current current | Jan 1, 2017 unchanged | Apr 1, 2022 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: travel.state.gov (page saved from a browser; the site refuses automated clients) · data through Sep 2026 · monthly Cutoff dates as the State Department published them each month. Nothing here is forecast.