Updated
The October 2024 visa bulletin
Every employment-based cutoff the State Department published for October 2024, on both charts, for the five countries the bulletin lists separately. Beside each cutoff is what it did since the September 2024 bulletin. The newest bulletin held here is November 2026.
What moved since September 2024
Every one of the 45 cells on each chart, by what it did.
Final action dates
Final action dates: 10 advanced, 34 unchanged, 1 went backwards.
Dates for filing
Dates for filing: 15 advanced, 28 unchanged, 2 went backwards.
Final action dates
Each cell shows the cutoff and its move since the September 2024 bulletin.
| Category | All other countries | China | India | Mexico | Philippines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EB-1 priority workers | Current current | Nov 8, 2022 +7 days | Feb 1, 2022 unchanged | Current current | Current current |
| EB-2 advanced degree and NIW | Mar 15, 2023 unchanged | Mar 22, 2020 +21 days | Jul 15, 2012 unchanged | Mar 15, 2023 unchanged | Mar 15, 2023 unchanged |
| EB-3 skilled and professional | Nov 15, 2022 +714 days | Apr 1, 2020 -153 days | Nov 1, 2012 +10 days | Nov 15, 2022 +714 days | Nov 15, 2022 +714 days |
| EB-3 other workers | Dec 1, 2020 unchanged | Jan 1, 2017 unchanged | Nov 1, 2012 +10 days | Dec 1, 2020 unchanged | Dec 1, 2020 +214 days |
| EB-4 special immigrants | Jan 1, 2021 unchanged | Jan 1, 2021 unchanged | Jan 1, 2021 unchanged | Jan 1, 2021 unchanged | Jan 1, 2021 unchanged |
| EB-5 unreserved | Current current | Jul 15, 2016 +213 days | Jan 1, 2022 +396 days | 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 September 2024 bulletin.
| Category | All other countries | China | India | Mexico | Philippines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EB-1 priority workers | Current current | Jan 1, 2023 unchanged | Apr 15, 2022 +66 days | Current current | Current current |
| EB-2 advanced degree and NIW | Aug 1, 2023 +132 days | Oct 1, 2020 +122 days | Jan 1, 2013 +163 days | Aug 1, 2023 +132 days | Aug 1, 2023 +132 days |
| EB-3 skilled and professional | Mar 1, 2023 +28 days | Nov 15, 2020 -228 days | Jun 8, 2013 +219 days | Mar 1, 2023 +28 days | Mar 1, 2023 +59 days |
| EB-3 other workers | May 22, 2021 +134 days | Jan 1, 2018 +214 days | Jun 8, 2013 +219 days | May 22, 2021 +134 days | May 22, 2021 +372 days |
| EB-4 special immigrants | Feb 1, 2021 unchanged | Feb 1, 2021 unchanged | Feb 1, 2021 unchanged | Feb 1, 2021 unchanged | Feb 1, 2021 unchanged |
| EB-5 unreserved | Current current | Oct 1, 2016 -92 days | 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 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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