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EB-5 Rural, Mexico

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
Current in the newest bulletin; there's no dated run to measure. It never went backwards.

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.

May 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: current, open to every priority dateSeptember 2023: current, open to every priority dateOctober 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 May 2022 Oct 2023 Jul 2024 Apr 2025 Sep 2026Bulletin month
  • Current, open to every date

From the 53 visa bulletins published between May 2022 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 Current not dated 0
FY2022 (part) Current Current not dated 0

What USCIS counts in this line

I-485s pending, visa number available
21 to 210
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

Email me when my cutoff moves

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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