Updated
The October 2025 visa bulletin
Every employment-based cutoff the State Department published for October 2025, on both charts, for the five countries the bulletin lists separately. Beside each cutoff is what it did since the September 2025 bulletin. The newest bulletin held here is November 2026.
What moved since September 2025
Every one of the 45 cells on each chart, by what it did.
Final action dates
Final action dates: 15 advanced, 25 unchanged, 5 reopened.
Dates for filing
Dates for filing: 22 advanced, 22 unchanged, 1 went backwards.
Final action dates
Each cell shows the cutoff and its move since the September 2025 bulletin.
| Category | All other countries | China | India | Mexico | Philippines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EB-1 priority workers | Current current | Dec 22, 2022 +37 days | Feb 15, 2022 unchanged | Current current | Current current |
| EB-2 advanced degree and NIW | Dec 1, 2023 +91 days | Apr 1, 2021 +107 days | Apr 1, 2013 +90 days | Dec 1, 2023 +91 days | Dec 1, 2023 +91 days |
| EB-3 skilled and professional | Apr 1, 2023 unchanged | Mar 1, 2021 +90 days | Aug 22, 2013 +92 days | Apr 1, 2023 unchanged | Apr 1, 2023 +52 days |
| EB-3 other workers | Jul 15, 2021 +7 days | Dec 1, 2017 +214 days | Aug 22, 2013 +92 days | Jul 15, 2021 +7 days | Jul 15, 2021 +7 days |
| EB-4 special immigrants | Jul 1, 2020 reopened | Jul 1, 2020 reopened | Jul 1, 2020 reopened | Jul 1, 2020 reopened | Jul 1, 2020 reopened |
| EB-5 unreserved | Current current | Dec 8, 2015 unchanged | Feb 1, 2021 +444 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 2025 bulletin.
| Category | All other countries | China | India | Mexico | Philippines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EB-1 priority workers | Current current | May 15, 2023 +134 days | Apr 15, 2023 +365 days | Current current | Current current |
| EB-2 advanced degree and NIW | Jul 15, 2024 +243 days | Dec 1, 2021 +334 days | Dec 1, 2013 +303 days | Jul 15, 2024 +243 days | Jul 15, 2024 +243 days |
| EB-3 skilled and professional | Jul 1, 2023 +61 days | Jan 1, 2022 +375 days | Aug 15, 2014 +433 days | Jul 1, 2023 +61 days | Jul 1, 2023 +61 days |
| EB-3 other workers | Dec 1, 2021 +132 days | Oct 1, 2018 +273 days | Aug 15, 2014 +433 days | Dec 1, 2021 +132 days | Dec 1, 2021 +132 days |
| EB-4 special immigrants | Feb 15, 2021 +14 days | Feb 15, 2021 +14 days | Feb 15, 2021 +14 days | Feb 15, 2021 +14 days | Feb 15, 2021 +14 days |
| EB-5 unreserved | Current current | Jul 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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