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November 2025 Visa Bulletin Holds Steady as USCIS Uses Filing Dates for EB Filings

The approach lets eligible applicants file I-485s before visas are available.

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.
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Overview

  • The State Department released the November 2025 Visa Bulletin with little or no forward movement across employment-based categories.
  • USCIS guidance for November directs employment-based applicants to use the Dates for Filing chart, with the agency customarily posting monthly acceptance notices separately.
  • Key November Chart B cutoffs include EB-1 India at April 15, 2023 and China at May 15, 2023; EB-2 India at December 1, 2013 and China at December 1, 2021; EB-3 India at August 15, 2014 and China at January 1, 2022.
  • Family-based filing windows show modest advances for some India categories, including F‑2A Dates for Filing moving to October 22, 2025 and F‑2B for India advancing to March 8, 2017.
  • The EB-4 category for certain religious workers remains expired absent congressional action, and DV‑2026 numbers are available to qualified applicants as outlined in the bulletin.