January 2023 Visa Bulletin
The Department of State has released the January 2023 Visa Bulletin for Employment and Family Based green card applications. To be eligible to file an employment-based adjustment of status application for January 2023, you must have a Priority Date that is earlier than the date listed on the chart here for your preference category and country. USCIS has announced on its own Visa Bulletin web page the cutoff dates for acceptance of adjustment of status applications next month will be based on the Dates for Filing chart.
Highlights of the January 2023 Visa Bulletin:
EB-1 China and EB-1 India Both countries retrogress to June 1, 2022. All other countries are current.
EB-2 Worldwide will advance to December 1, 2022.
EB-2 China will advance one month to July 8, 2019.
EB-2 India will retrogress by five months to May 1, 2011.
EB-3 Worldwide (all other countries) Professional/Skilled Workers will remain current.
EB-3 China Professional/Skilled Workers will advance by one month to September 1, 2018.
EB-3 India Professional/Skilled Workers will advance by more than one month to August 1, 2012.
EB-3 Worldwide Professional/Skilled Workers will remain current.
EB-3 Worldwide Other Workers will remain unchanged at September 8, 2022. China and India Other Workers will remain at November 1, 2015 and August 1, 2012, respectively.
EB-5: For the EB-5 Unreserved categories (C5, T5, I5, and R5), China and India cutoff dates will advance to January 1, 2016 and December 8, 2019, respectively, and all other countries will remain current. The EB-5 “Set-Aside” categories (Rural, High Unemployment, and Infrastructure) will remain current for all countries.
KEY TERMS
Priority Date (Employment-based): the date your immigrant petition (I-140 petition) was filed, or if you were subject to the PERM Labor Market Test process, the date the Labor Certification was filed with the Department of Labor.
Priority Date (Family-based): the date your immigrant petition (I-130 petition) was filed.
Preference Category (Employment-based): First Preference is EB-1 Priority Workers (i.e. Extraordinary Ability, Outstanding Researcher, or Multinational Manager petitions), Second Preference is EB-2 Members of the Professions Holding Advanced Degrees or Persons of Exceptional Ability; Third Preference is EB-3 Skilled Workers, Professionals, and Other Workers, Fourth Preference is Certain Special Immigrants, and Fifth Preference is EB-5 Employment Creation.
Preference Category (Family-based): First Preference is Unmarried Sons and Daughters of U.S. Citizens, Second Preference is Spouses and Children, and Unmarried Sons and Daughters of Permanent Residents broken down to F2A (Spouses and Children of Permanent Residents) and F2B (Unmarried Sons and Daughters (21 years of age or older) of Permanent Residents), Third Preference is Married Sons and Daughters of U.S. Citizens, and Fourth Preference is Brothers and Sisters of Adult U.S. Citizens.
Country: This is the country of your birth, even if you have become a citizen in a different country.
