Updated
The November 2026 visa bulletin
Every employment-based cutoff the State Department published for November 2026, on both charts, for the five countries the bulletin lists separately. Beside each cutoff is what it did since the October 2026 bulletin. This is the newest bulletin in the archive. What the next one usually does is computed from the months before it.
Filing an I-485 in November 2026
- Work-based categories: USCIS accepts
- Dates for Filing chart
- A priority date before this chart's cutoff can file now, but approval still waits for the Final Action date.
Applying through a consulate abroad? The visa is issued only once the priority date is before the Final Action date.
What moved since October 2026
Every one of the 45 cells on each chart, by what it did.
Final action dates
Final action dates: 11 advanced, 34 unchanged.
Dates for filing
Dates for filing: 2 advanced, 43 unchanged.
Final action dates
Each cell shows the cutoff and its move since the October 2026 bulletin.
| Category | All other countries | China | India | Mexico | Philippines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EB-1 priority workers | Current current | Aug 1, 2023 +31 days | Feb 1, 2023 unchanged | Current current | Current current |
| EB-2 advanced degree and NIW | Apr 1, 2025 +90 days | Oct 1, 2021 unchanged | Nov 1, 2013 unchanged | Apr 1, 2025 +90 days | Apr 1, 2025 +90 days |
| EB-3 skilled and professional | Jun 15, 2024 +31 days | Jan 22, 2022 +14 days | Jan 22, 2014 +21 days | Jun 15, 2024 +31 days | Aug 15, 2023 unchanged |
| EB-3 other workers | Jun 1, 2022 +151 days | Oct 1, 2019 unchanged | Jan 22, 2014 +21 days | Jun 1, 2022 +151 days | Jan 1, 2022 unchanged |
| EB-4 special immigrants | Dec 15, 2022 unchanged | Dec 15, 2022 unchanged | Dec 15, 2022 unchanged | Dec 15, 2022 unchanged | Dec 15, 2022 unchanged |
| EB-5 unreserved | Current current | Dec 1, 2016 unchanged | Dec 1, 2023 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 October 2026 bulletin.
| Category | All other countries | China | India | Mexico | Philippines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EB-1 priority workers | Current current | Jul 1, 2024 unchanged | Jul 1, 2024 unchanged | Current current | Current current |
| EB-2 advanced degree and NIW | Mar 15, 2026 unchanged | Jan 1, 2023 unchanged | Jan 15, 2015 unchanged | Mar 15, 2026 unchanged | Mar 15, 2026 unchanged |
| EB-3 skilled and professional | Aug 1, 2024 unchanged | Apr 1, 2024 unchanged | Jan 15, 2015 unchanged | Aug 1, 2024 unchanged | Jan 1, 2024 unchanged |
| EB-3 other workers | Jul 1, 2022 +30 days | Oct 1, 2020 unchanged | Jan 15, 2015 unchanged | Jul 1, 2022 +30 days | Jun 1, 2022 unchanged |
| EB-4 special immigrants | Jan 1, 2025 unchanged | Jan 1, 2025 unchanged | Jan 1, 2025 unchanged | Jan 1, 2025 unchanged | Jan 1, 2025 unchanged |
| EB-5 unreserved | Current current | Mar 1, 2021 unchanged | May 1, 2024 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
Waiting on a PERM case?
- When it'll likely be decided
- An email when DOL moves it