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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
Sep 1, 2024
Dates for filing, September 2026
Current
Across the archive
It moved 155 months of priority dates across 143 months of bulletins. It went backwards or shut 4 times, most recently in September 2024.

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.

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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: cutoff October 1, 2011November 2014: cutoff June 1, 2012December 2014: cutoff November 1, 2012January 2015: cutoff June 1, 2013February 2015: cutoff January 1, 2014March 2015: cutoff June 1, 2014April 2015: cutoff October 1, 2014May 2015: cutoff January 1, 2015June 2015: cutoff February 15, 2015July 2015: cutoff April 1, 2015August 2015: cutoff July 15, 2015September 2015: cutoff August 15, 2015October 2015: cutoff August 15, 2015November 2015: cutoff August 15, 2015December 2015: cutoff September 1, 2015January 2016: cutoff October 1, 2015February 2016: cutoff October 1, 2015March 2016: cutoff January 1, 2016April 2016: cutoff February 15, 2016May 2016: cutoff February 15, 2016June 2016: cutoff February 15, 2016July 2016: cutoff March 1, 2016August 2016: cutoff March 15, 2016September 2016: cutoff May 1, 2016October 2016: cutoff June 1, 2016November 2016: cutoff July 1, 2016December 2016: cutoff July 1, 2016January 2017: cutoff August 1, 2016February 2017: cutoff October 1, 2016March 2017: cutoff December 1, 2016April 2017: cutoff February 15, 2017May 2017: cutoff March 15, 2017June 2017: cutoff April 15, 2017July 2017: cutoff June 8, 2017August 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: current, open to every priority dateSeptember 2018: cutoff November 1, 2016October 2018: current, open to every priority dateNovember 2018: current, open to every priority dateDecember 2018: current, open to every priority dateJanuary 2019: current, open to every priority dateFebruary 2019: current, open to every priority dateMarch 2019: current, open to every priority dateApril 2019: current, open to every priority dateMay 2019: current, open to every priority dateJune 2019: current, open to every priority dateJuly 2019: current, open to every priority dateAugust 2019: cutoff July 1, 2016September 2019: cutoff July 1, 2016October 2019: current, open to every priority dateNovember 2019: current, open to every priority dateDecember 2019: current, open to every priority dateJanuary 2020: current, open to every priority dateFebruary 2020: current, open to every priority dateMarch 2020: cutoff January 1, 2017April 2020: cutoff January 1, 2017May 2020: cutoff January 1, 2017June 2020: cutoff November 8, 2017July 2020: cutoff April 15, 2018August 2020: cutoff April 1, 2019September 2020: cutoff April 1, 2019October 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: cutoff June 1, 2022June 2023: cutoff June 1, 2022July 2023: cutoff February 1, 2022August 2023: cutoff May 1, 2020September 2023: cutoff May 1, 2020October 2023: cutoff December 1, 2021November 2023: cutoff December 1, 2021December 2023: cutoff December 1, 2021January 2024: cutoff August 1, 2022February 2024: cutoff September 1, 2022March 2024: cutoff September 8, 2022April 2024: cutoff November 22, 2022May 2024: cutoff November 22, 2022June 2024: cutoff November 22, 2022July 2024: cutoff December 1, 2021August 2024: cutoff December 1, 2021September 2024: cutoff December 1, 2020October 2024: cutoff November 15, 2022November 2024: cutoff November 15, 2022December 2024: cutoff November 15, 2022January 2025: cutoff December 1, 2022February 2025: cutoff December 1, 2022March 2025: cutoff December 1, 2022April 2025: cutoff January 1, 2023May 2025: cutoff January 1, 2023June 2025: cutoff February 8, 2023July 2025: cutoff April 1, 2023August 2025: cutoff April 1, 2023September 2025: cutoff April 1, 2023October 2025: cutoff April 1, 2023November 2025: cutoff April 1, 2023December 2025: cutoff April 15, 2023January 2026: cutoff April 22, 2023February 2026: cutoff June 1, 2023March 2026: cutoff October 1, 2023April 2026: cutoff June 1, 2024May 2026: cutoff June 1, 2024June 2026: cutoff June 1, 2024July 2026: cutoff August 1, 2024August 2026: cutoff September 1, 2024September 2026: cutoff September 1, 2024Cutoff date Dec 2010 Mar 2018 Jun 2025 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 Apr 1, 2023 Sep 1, 2024 +519 days 0
FY2025 Nov 15, 2022 Apr 1, 2023 +137 days 0
FY2024 Dec 1, 2021 Dec 1, 2020 -365 days 2
FY2023 Current May 1, 2020 not dated 2
FY2022 Current Current not dated 0
FY2021 Current Current not dated 0
FY2020 Current Apr 1, 2019 not dated 0
FY2019 Current Jul 1, 2016 not dated 0
FY2018 Current Nov 1, 2016 not dated 0
FY2017 Jun 1, 2016 Current not dated 0
FY2016 Aug 15, 2015 May 1, 2016 +260 days 0
FY2015 Oct 1, 2011 Aug 15, 2015 +1,414 days 0

What USCIS counts in this line

Approved petitions waiting for a visa number
10,304
as of June 2026, primary applicants
I-485s pending, visa number available
25,404 to 25,656
inventory of 2026-08-05
I-485s pending, waiting for a visa number
5,202
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.

Count everyone ahead of your date in this line

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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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