Overview
- EB-2 India sees an 11-month leap in Dates for Filing to November 1, 2014, and a two-month Final Action advance to September 15, 2013.
- EB-1 India and China advance to March 1, 2023 for Final Action and to December 1, 2023 for Dates for Filing.
- EB-4 advances to July 15, 2021 for Final Action with Dates for Filing moving to January 1, 2023, and the Certain Religious Workers category reopens at the same cutoffs.
- Family-sponsored categories are largely unchanged, with F2A Dates for Filing moving up one month to February 22, 2026.
- USCIS will decide soon whether to use the March filing chart for I-485 submissions, and legal analysts attribute the gains to reduced visa issuance after recent presidential proclamations while noting the EB-2 India to EB-3 downgrade window closes this month.