Updated
The December 2025 visa bulletin
Every employment-based cutoff the State Department published for December 2025, on both charts, for the five countries the bulletin lists separately. Beside each cutoff is what it did since the November 2025 bulletin. The newest bulletin held here is November 2026.
What moved since November 2025
Every one of the 45 cells on each chart, by what it did.
Final action dates
Final action dates: 24 advanced, 21 unchanged.
Dates for filing
Dates for filing: 1 advanced, 44 unchanged.
Final action dates
Each cell shows the cutoff and its move since the November 2025 bulletin.
| Category | All other countries | China | India | Mexico | Philippines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EB-1 priority workers | Current current | Jan 22, 2023 +31 days | Mar 15, 2022 +28 days | Current current | Current current |
| EB-2 advanced degree and NIW | Feb 1, 2024 +62 days | Jun 1, 2021 +61 days | May 15, 2013 +44 days | Feb 1, 2024 +62 days | Feb 1, 2024 +62 days |
| EB-3 skilled and professional | Apr 15, 2023 +14 days | Apr 1, 2021 +31 days | Sep 22, 2013 +31 days | Apr 15, 2023 +14 days | Apr 15, 2023 +14 days |
| EB-3 other workers | Aug 1, 2021 +17 days | Dec 8, 2017 +7 days | Sep 22, 2013 +31 days | Aug 1, 2021 +17 days | Aug 1, 2021 +17 days |
| EB-4 special immigrants | Sep 1, 2020 +62 days | Sep 1, 2020 +62 days | Sep 1, 2020 +62 days | Sep 1, 2020 +62 days | Sep 1, 2020 +62 days |
| EB-5 unreserved | Current current | Jul 15, 2016 +220 days | Jul 1, 2021 +150 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 November 2025 bulletin.
| Category | All other countries | China | India | Mexico | Philippines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EB-1 priority workers | Current current | May 15, 2023 unchanged | Apr 15, 2023 unchanged | Current current | Current current |
| EB-2 advanced degree and NIW | Jul 15, 2024 unchanged | Dec 1, 2021 unchanged | Dec 1, 2013 unchanged | Jul 15, 2024 unchanged | Jul 15, 2024 unchanged |
| EB-3 skilled and professional | Jul 1, 2023 unchanged | Jan 1, 2022 unchanged | Aug 15, 2014 unchanged | Jul 1, 2023 unchanged | Jul 1, 2023 unchanged |
| EB-3 other workers | Dec 1, 2021 unchanged | Oct 1, 2018 unchanged | Aug 15, 2014 unchanged | Dec 1, 2021 unchanged | Dec 1, 2021 unchanged |
| EB-4 special immigrants | Feb 15, 2021 unchanged | Feb 15, 2021 unchanged | Feb 15, 2021 unchanged | Feb 15, 2021 unchanged | Feb 15, 2021 unchanged |
| EB-5 unreserved | Current current | Jul 22, 2016 +21 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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