How each Visa Bulletin category moves
One page per line, with the live cutoff for every chargeability area and the movement history we have read from the official bulletins.
- How does EB-1 move in the Visa Bulletin?EB-1 gets 28.6% of employment visas plus unused EB-4 and EB-5 numbers. Why it is often current for most countries but not India or China.
- How does EB-2 move in the Visa Bulletin?EB-2 gets 28.6% of employment visas plus unused EB-1 numbers. How NIW and PERM cases share it, and why India and China have their own cutoffs.
- How does EB-3 (and the Other Workers row) move in the Visa Bulletin?EB-3 gets 28.6% of employment visas plus unused EB-1/EB-2 numbers. Other Workers have a separate row capped at 10,000 a year. Nurses use EB-3.
- How does EB-4 (and the religious workers row) work in the Visa Bulletin?EB-4 special immigrants get 7.1% of employment visas. The non-minister religious worker row depends on a program Congress must extend, so it can show U.
- How does EB-5 work in the Visa Bulletin?EB-5 gets 7.1% of employment visas. 32% is reserved: 20% rural, 10% high unemployment, 2% infrastructure. Each has its own row and can move separately.
- Is the EB-5 rural set-aside current in the Visa Bulletin?Rural EB-5 has its own bulletin row with 20% of EB-5 visas. How to check if it is current, why it can differ from unreserved, and how to watch it.
- What does EB-5 India retrogression mean for investors?When EB-5 India gets a cutoff, Indian-born investors in that row wait for numbers even after I-526E approval. What changes and what to do.
- How does F1 (unmarried adult children of U.S. citizens) move in the Visa Bulletin?F1 (unmarried sons and daughters 21+ of U.S. citizens) gets 23,400 visas a year plus unused F4 numbers. How the line moves by country.
- Why does F2A move so differently from the other family categories?F2A (spouses and minor children of green card holders) gets most F2 visas and 75% of them ignore the per-country limit. Why it jumps and retrogresses.
- How does F2B (adult children of green card holders) move in the Visa Bulletin?F2B (unmarried sons and daughters 21+ of green card holders) shares F2's 114,200 visas with F2A and gets up to 23% of them. How it moves.
- How does F3 (married children of U.S. citizens) move in the Visa Bulletin?F3 (married sons and daughters of U.S. citizens) gets 23,400 visas plus unused F1 and F2 numbers. How it moves and why waits are long.
- Why is F4 (siblings of U.S. citizens) the slowest Visa Bulletin line?F4 (brothers and sisters of adult U.S. citizens) gets 65,000 visas plus unused F1 to F3 numbers. Why it has the longest waits, by country.
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