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The Visa Bulletin, read for you every month.
Tell us your category and country. We read each new official bulletin and the USCIS chart choice, and email you the day your cutoff moves, retrogresses or becomes current, with what it means and the official link.
This month's charts
How to read the current bulletin · official bulletinNovember 2026: USCIS says family-based I-485 filers use Dates for Filing, employment-based use Dates for Filing.
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The most-watched lines
Tap a line for how it moves and its history.
Everything about the monthly bulletin
Reading the bulletin
- What do "C" and "U" mean in the Visa Bulletin?
- When does the next Visa Bulletin come out?
- Where can I find past Visa Bulletins?
- What do the notes at the bottom of the Visa Bulletin mean?
- How does the Visa Bulletin work if my case is at the National Visa Center?
- How does the Visa Bulletin affect my child's CSPA age?
- Do my spouse and children use my priority date in the Visa Bulletin?
- What happens to my pending I-485 if the Visa Bulletin goes backward?
Categories
- How does EB-1 move in the Visa Bulletin?
- How does EB-2 move in the Visa Bulletin?
- How does EB-3 (and the Other Workers row) move in the Visa Bulletin?
- How does EB-4 (and the religious workers row) work in the Visa Bulletin?
- How does EB-5 work in the Visa Bulletin?
- Is the EB-5 rural set-aside current in the Visa Bulletin?
- What does EB-5 India retrogression mean for investors?
- How does F1 (unmarried adult children of U.S. citizens) move in the Visa Bulletin?
- Why does F2A move so differently from the other family categories?
- How does F2B (adult children of green card holders) move in the Visa Bulletin?
- How does F3 (married children of U.S. citizens) move in the Visa Bulletin?
- Why is F4 (siblings of U.S. citizens) the slowest Visa Bulletin line?
Countries
- Where does India stand in this month's Visa Bulletin, across every category?
- Where does China stand in this month's Visa Bulletin, across every category?
- Where does Mexico stand in this month's Visa Bulletin, across every category?
- Where does the Philippines stand in this month's Visa Bulletin, across every category?
- Which Visa Bulletin column do I use if I was not born in China, India, Mexico or the Philippines?
- EB-2 China vs EB-1 China: which is faster right now?
- EB-1A vs NIW: which gets an India-born applicant a green card faster?
- EB-2 vs EB-3 India: which is ahead in the Visa Bulletin this month?
History, predictions & alerts
- How does the State Department decide the Visa Bulletin cutoff dates?
- Where does the State Department publish Visa Bulletin projections?
- How many green cards does each Visa Bulletin category get per year?
- What is the 7% per-country limit in the Visa Bulletin?
- How do unused family visas spill over to employment-based green cards?
- What changes in the October Visa Bulletin?
- Why does my Visa Bulletin category become unavailable near the end of the fiscal year?
- How far has the Visa Bulletin moved, month by month, for the backlogged categories?
- Is there a Visa Bulletin prediction calculator for EB-2 India (and does it work)?
- How do I get an alert when the Visa Bulletin changes for my category?
- How do I get notified when F2A becomes current?
How it works
1. Pick your line
Category (EB-1 to EB-5, F1 to F4), chargeability country and, if you want, your priority date.
2. We read every bulletin
Both charts, the notes, and USCIS's chart choice. Free: daily check. Pro: every 4 hours.
3. You get the change
Forward, back, C or U, in days, with what it means and the official link to confirm.
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