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November 2025 Visa Bulletin Holds Steady as USCIS Opens Filing Under Chart B

USCIS is using the Dates for Filing chart in November, opening an earlier adjustment window despite stagnant cutoffs.

Candidates for immigrant visas must submit paperwork to the National Visa Center if their priority date precedes the application date in the bulletin. Categories marked 'current' allow applications regardless of priority date.
A candidate for US citizenship holds a US flag during a naturalization ceremony for new US citizens February 16, 2017 in Newark, New Jersey. Eighty-nine applicants from thirty-seven countries received their certificates of citizenship.
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Overview

  • USCIS confirmed it will accept employment-based adjustment applications in November using the State Department’s Dates for Filing chart, which shows no movement from October.
  • Employment-based Final Action Dates remain unchanged, including EB-1 India at February 15, 2022, EB-1 China at December 22, 2022, EB-2 India at April 1, 2013, and EB-3 India at August 22, 2013.
  • Family categories see modest filing-window gains, with F2A Dates for Filing advancing to October 22, 2025 and F2B India and China to March 8, 2017, while most Final Action Dates stay flat except for small shifts such as F2B India to December 1, 2016.
  • The EB-4 program for certain religious workers expired on September 30 and remains unavailable unless Congress extends it.
  • Targeted opportunities include limited EB‑2 to EB‑3 downgrades for specific India and China priority dates, and DV‑2026 numbers are available based on regional lottery rank cutoffs for November and December.