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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
Current
Dates for filing, September 2026
Current
Across the archive
It moved 87 months of priority dates across 61 months of bulletins. It went backwards or shut 1 time, most recently in August 2019.

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: current, open to every priority dateSeptember 2016: current, open to every priority dateOctober 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: current, open to every priority dateJuly 2017: current, open to every priority dateAugust 2017: current, open to every priority dateSeptember 2017: current, open to every priority dateOctober 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: current, open to every priority dateMay 2018: current, open to every priority dateJune 2018: current, open to every priority dateJuly 2018: current, open to every priority dateAugust 2018: cutoff May 1, 2016September 2018: cutoff June 1, 2016October 2018: cutoff April 1, 2017November 2018: cutoff April 1, 2017December 2018: cutoff July 1, 2017January 2019: cutoff October 1, 2017February 2019: cutoff December 1, 2017March 2019: cutoff January 1, 2018April 2019: cutoff February 1, 2018May 2019: cutoff March 1, 2018June 2019: cutoff April 22, 2018July 2019: cutoff April 22, 2018August 2019: cutoff July 1, 2016September 2019: cutoff October 1, 2017October 2019: cutoff April 22, 2018November 2019: cutoff June 1, 2018December 2019: cutoff July 15, 2018January 2020: cutoff October 1, 2018February 2020: cutoff December 1, 2018March 2020: cutoff March 1, 2019April 2020: cutoff June 1, 2019May 2020: current, open to every priority dateJune 2020: current, open to every priority dateJuly 2020: current, open to every priority dateAugust 2020: current, open to every priority dateSeptember 2020: current, open to every priority dateOctober 2020: current, open to every priority dateNovember 2020: current, open to every priority dateDecember 2020: current, open to every priority dateJanuary 2021: current, open to every priority dateFebruary 2021: current, open to every priority dateMarch 2021: current, open to every priority dateApril 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: current, open to every priority dateFebruary 2023: current, open to every priority dateMarch 2023: current, open to every priority dateApril 2023: current, open to every priority dateMay 2023: current, open to every priority dateJune 2023: current, open to every priority dateJuly 2023: current, open to every priority dateAugust 2023: cutoff August 1, 2023September 2023: cutoff August 1, 2023October 2023: current, open to every priority dateNovember 2023: current, open to every priority dateDecember 2023: current, open to every priority dateJanuary 2024: current, open to every priority dateFebruary 2024: current, open to every priority dateMarch 2024: current, open to every priority dateApril 2024: current, open to every priority dateMay 2024: current, open to every priority dateJune 2024: current, open to every priority dateJuly 2024: current, open to every priority dateAugust 2024: current, open to every priority dateSeptember 2024: current, open to every priority dateOctober 2024: current, open to every priority dateNovember 2024: current, open to every priority dateDecember 2024: current, open to every priority dateJanuary 2025: current, open to every priority dateFebruary 2025: current, open to every priority dateMarch 2025: current, open to every priority dateApril 2025: current, open to every priority dateMay 2025: current, open to every priority dateJune 2025: current, open to every priority dateJuly 2025: current, open to every priority dateAugust 2025: current, open to every priority dateSeptember 2025: current, open to every priority dateOctober 2025: current, open to every priority dateNovember 2025: current, open to every priority dateDecember 2025: current, open to every priority dateJanuary 2026: current, open to every priority dateFebruary 2026: current, open to every priority dateMarch 2026: current, open to every priority dateApril 2026: current, open to every priority dateMay 2026: current, open to every priority dateJune 2026: current, open to every priority dateJuly 2026: current, open to every priority dateAugust 2026: current, open to every priority dateSeptember 2026: current, open to every priority dateCutoff date Nov 2015 Dec 2019 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

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 Current Current not dated 0
FY2025 Current Current not dated 0
FY2024 Current Current not dated 0
FY2023 Current Aug 1, 2023 not dated 0
FY2022 Current Current not dated 0
FY2021 Current Current not dated 0
FY2020 Apr 22, 2018 Current not dated 0
FY2019 Apr 1, 2017 Oct 1, 2017 +183 days 1
FY2018 Current Jun 1, 2016 not dated 0
FY2017 Current Current not dated 0
FY2016 Current Current not dated 0
FY2015 Current Current not dated 0

What USCIS counts in this line

Approved petitions waiting for a visa number
0
as of June 2026, primary applicants
I-485s pending, visa number available
30,578 to 31,028
inventory of 2026-08-05
I-485s pending, waiting for a visa number
0
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.

Alert

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Pick your category and country. When a new bulletin changes that final-action cutoff, we email the change, before and after. Nothing on the months it doesn't move.

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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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