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Where this line's cutoff stands, how it has moved a fiscal year at a time, and what USCIS counts behind it. From the State Department's bulletins, October 2014 to September 2026.

This month

Final action, September 2026
Oct 15, 2022
Dates for filing, September 2026
Dec 1, 2023
Across the archive
It moved 153 months of priority dates across 121 months of bulletins. It went backwards or shut 5 times, most recently in July 2026.

Final action decides when a green card can be approved; dates for filing, when USCIS allows it, decides when an I-485 can be filed. How the visa bulletin works.

Check your priority date

Is my priority date current?

And which way the cutoff has been moving. Cutoffs go backwards as well as forwards.

When a green card can actually be approved.

Reading the September 2026 visa bulletin.

These figures come from that bulletin and the ones before it. Cutoffs change every month, in both directions.

Open the current visa bulletin at travel.state.gov

How the cutoff has moved

Bulletin month along the bottom, the cutoff it published up the side. The shaded part of each column is the range of priority dates that qualified that month, so a taller column is a month more people were current in.

October 2014: current, open to every priority dateNovember 2014: current, open to every priority dateDecember 2014: current, open to every priority dateJanuary 2015: current, open to every priority dateFebruary 2015: current, open to every priority dateMarch 2015: current, open to every priority dateApril 2015: current, open to every priority dateMay 2015: current, open to every priority dateJune 2015: current, open to every priority dateJuly 2015: current, open to every priority dateAugust 2015: current, open to every priority dateSeptember 2015: current, open to every priority dateOctober 2015: current, open to every priority dateNovember 2015: current, open to every priority dateDecember 2015: current, open to every priority dateJanuary 2016: current, open to every priority dateFebruary 2016: current, open to every priority dateMarch 2016: current, open to every priority dateApril 2016: current, open to every priority dateMay 2016: current, open to every priority dateJune 2016: current, open to every priority dateJuly 2016: current, open to every priority dateAugust 2016: cutoff January 1, 2010September 2016: cutoff January 1, 2010October 2016: current, open to every priority dateNovember 2016: current, open to every priority dateDecember 2016: current, open to every priority dateJanuary 2017: current, open to every priority dateFebruary 2017: current, open to every priority dateMarch 2017: current, open to every priority dateApril 2017: current, open to every priority dateMay 2017: current, open to every priority dateJune 2017: cutoff January 1, 2012July 2017: cutoff January 1, 2012August 2017: cutoff January 1, 2012September 2017: cutoff January 1, 2012October 2017: current, open to every priority dateNovember 2017: current, open to every priority dateDecember 2017: current, open to every priority dateJanuary 2018: current, open to every priority dateFebruary 2018: current, open to every priority dateMarch 2018: current, open to every priority dateApril 2018: cutoff January 1, 2012May 2018: cutoff January 1, 2012June 2018: cutoff January 1, 2012July 2018: cutoff January 1, 2012August 2018: cutoff January 1, 2012September 2018: cutoff January 1, 2012October 2018: cutoff June 1, 2016November 2018: cutoff June 1, 2016December 2018: cutoff September 1, 2016January 2019: cutoff December 15, 2016February 2019: cutoff February 8, 2017March 2019: cutoff February 22, 2017April 2019: cutoff February 22, 2017May 2019: cutoff February 22, 2017June 2019: cutoff January 1, 2015July 2019: cutoff January 1, 2015August 2019: cutoff January 1, 2015September 2019: closed, no visa numbersOctober 2019: cutoff January 1, 2015November 2019: cutoff January 1, 2015December 2019: cutoff January 1, 2015January 2020: cutoff January 1, 2015February 2020: cutoff January 1, 2015March 2020: cutoff March 1, 2015April 2020: cutoff May 1, 2015May 2020: cutoff August 1, 2015June 2020: cutoff June 8, 2016July 2020: cutoff May 8, 2017August 2020: cutoff February 8, 2018September 2020: cutoff March 1, 2018October 2020: cutoff June 1, 2018November 2020: cutoff December 1, 2018December 2020: cutoff April 1, 2019January 2021: cutoff September 1, 2019February 2021: cutoff January 1, 2020March 2021: cutoff August 1, 2020April 2021: current, open to every priority dateMay 2021: current, open to every priority dateJune 2021: current, open to every priority dateJuly 2021: current, open to every priority dateAugust 2021: current, open to every priority dateSeptember 2021: current, open to every priority dateOctober 2021: current, open to every priority dateNovember 2021: current, open to every priority dateDecember 2021: current, open to every priority dateJanuary 2022: current, open to every priority dateFebruary 2022: current, open to every priority dateMarch 2022: current, open to every priority dateApril 2022: current, open to every priority dateMay 2022: current, open to every priority dateJune 2022: current, open to every priority dateJuly 2022: current, open to every priority dateAugust 2022: current, open to every priority dateSeptember 2022: current, open to every priority dateOctober 2022: current, open to every priority dateNovember 2022: current, open to every priority dateDecember 2022: current, open to every priority dateJanuary 2023: cutoff February 1, 2022February 2023: cutoff February 1, 2022March 2023: cutoff February 1, 2022April 2023: cutoff February 1, 2022May 2023: cutoff February 1, 2022June 2023: cutoff February 1, 2022July 2023: cutoff February 1, 2022August 2023: cutoff January 1, 2012September 2023: cutoff January 1, 2012October 2023: cutoff January 1, 2017November 2023: cutoff January 1, 2017December 2023: cutoff January 1, 2017January 2024: cutoff September 1, 2020February 2024: cutoff September 1, 2020March 2024: cutoff October 1, 2020April 2024: cutoff March 1, 2021May 2024: cutoff March 1, 2021June 2024: cutoff March 1, 2021July 2024: cutoff February 1, 2022August 2024: cutoff February 1, 2022September 2024: cutoff February 1, 2022October 2024: cutoff February 1, 2022November 2024: cutoff February 1, 2022December 2024: cutoff February 1, 2022January 2025: cutoff February 1, 2022February 2025: cutoff February 1, 2022March 2025: cutoff February 1, 2022April 2025: cutoff February 15, 2022May 2025: cutoff February 15, 2022June 2025: cutoff February 15, 2022July 2025: cutoff February 15, 2022August 2025: cutoff February 15, 2022September 2025: cutoff February 15, 2022October 2025: cutoff February 15, 2022November 2025: cutoff February 15, 2022December 2025: cutoff March 15, 2022January 2026: cutoff February 1, 2023February 2026: cutoff February 1, 2023March 2026: cutoff March 1, 2023April 2026: cutoff April 1, 2023May 2026: cutoff April 1, 2023June 2026: cutoff December 15, 2022July 2026: cutoff October 15, 2022August 2026: cutoff October 15, 2022September 2026: cutoff October 15, 2022Cutoff date Mar 2009 Aug 2016 Jan 2024 Oct 2014 Oct 2018 Oct 2020 Sep 2022 Sep 2026Bulletin month
  • The cutoff that month
  • Dates that qualified
  • Current, open to every date
  • Closed, no visa numbers

From the 144 visa bulletins published between October 2014 and September 2026.

What this can’t tell you

  • Enter a priority date to see where it sits against the cutoff.
  • It can’t tell you this month's cutoff. It holds archived bulletins only, and the archive itself stops at September 2026. Check the current bulletin before acting on any of it.

A fiscal year at a time

The final action cutoff in each year's first bulletin (October) against its last (September), the year the State Department plans visa numbers for. Newest first.

Fiscal year First bulletin Last bulletin Moved Steps back
FY2026 Feb 15, 2022 Oct 15, 2022 +242 days 2
FY2025 Feb 1, 2022 Feb 15, 2022 +14 days 0
FY2024 Jan 1, 2017 Feb 1, 2022 +1,857 days 0
FY2023 Current Jan 1, 2012 not dated 1
FY2022 Current Current not dated 0
FY2021 Jun 1, 2018 Current not dated 0
FY2020 Jan 1, 2015 Mar 1, 2018 +1,155 days 0
FY2019 Jun 1, 2016 Unavailable not dated 2
FY2018 Current Jan 1, 2012 not dated 0
FY2017 Current Jan 1, 2012 not dated 0
FY2016 Current Jan 1, 2010 not dated 0
FY2015 Current Current not dated 0

What USCIS counts in this line

Approved petitions waiting for a visa number
17,861
as of June 2026, primary applicants
I-485s pending, visa number available
5,806
inventory of 2026-08-05
I-485s pending, waiting for a visa number
13,455
inventory of 2026-08-05

The approved count is USCIS's quarterly file and counts petitions, not people: no family members, and one person can hold more than one. The I-485 counts are USCIS's monthly inventory, where cells of 1 to 10 are withheld, so they're ranges. People getting their visa abroad aren't in the I-485 counts at all.

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Visa bulletin: adoption.state.gov (the State Department's own page, served to scripts; travel.state.gov refuses them) · data through Sep 2026 · monthly Cutoff dates as the State Department published them each month. Nothing here is forecast.

Petitions awaiting a visa: USCIS approved employment-based petitions awaiting a visa (uscis.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly Approved I-140, I-360 and I-526 petitions whose beneficiary is still waiting for a visa number, by preference and country of birth, as of the month USCIS states. Primary beneficiaries only, dependents excluded.

I-485 pending inventory has not refreshed in 54 days. It should update monthly, so the figures below are the last ones that arrived rather than the current ones. Source: USCIS employment-based I-485 inventory (uscis.gov) · data through Aug 5, 2026.

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