The bulletin tells you the dates, not why they moved. We analyse each month's bulletin after it is published, and answer the questions that come up every month with eleven years of our own historical bulletin data.
Each bulletin read against last month and the State Department's notes: why the dates moved the way they did.
The short answer: no category went backward in the November 2026 bulletin. In family-based, F1, F2B, F3 and F4 each move…
In short: in the first bulletin of the new fiscal year, China's employment-based Dates for Filing (Chart B) jumped, and …
In one sentence: family-based categories posted their biggest single-month advance in eleven years, while employment-bas…
The short answer: In the September 2026 visa bulletin, all five family-based categories for mainland China caught up wit…
Questions that come up every month, answered with our own historical bulletin data.
If this month's visa bulletin shows an earlier date for your category than last month, don't panic: that is called retro…
If you are waiting for next month's visa bulletin, the two questions are: which day does it come out, and is it out toda…
The company's law firm is slow, and October's filing window is open. Can you hire your own lawyer to file the I-485? Yes…
In the October 2026 Visa Bulletin, the dates at which China-born EB-2 and EB-3 applicants can file their green card appl…
You have a pending I-485 and both EB-2 and EB-3 I-140 petitions. EB-2 is now current. Can you switch the I-485 back to E…
You may have seen an article going around: fewer Chinese students are coming to the US, so the EB-2 and EB-3 waits will …
The October 2026 bulletin moved EB-3 fast, faster than EB-2. So many EB-2 people are asking: my EB-2 date isn't here yet…
From March through September of this year, 3,222 people made 4,762 predictions on our site about the visa bulletin for m…
After filing the I-485 (the adjustment of status application, the form you file to get a green card while inside the US)…
Every month when the visa bulletin comes out, someone in the community asks: "For the green card wait, should I be looki…
"My priority date is March 2019. How much longer do I have to wait?" That's the question we get asked more than any othe…
Every month when the visa bulletin comes out, the most common line on the forums is: "Why didn't it move again?" The sho…
