January 2025 Visa Bulletin
The Department of State has released the January 2025 Visa Bulletin for Employment and Family Based green card applications. To be eligible to file an employment-based adjustment of status application for January 2025, 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 for employment-based next month will be based on the Dates for Filing chart and family-based will be based on Dates for Filing chart.
Highlights of the January 2025 Visa Bulletin for Employment-Based Final Action Dates:
In January, the EB-1 Final Action Dates will remain the same, and the EB-2 and EB-3 Professional and Skilled Worker Final Action dates will advance from 2 weeks to 2 months, depending on the category and country.
EB-1 India Final Action Date will remain at February 1, 2022.
EB-1 China Final Action Date will remain at November 8, 2022.
EB-1 Worldwide Final Action Date remains Current.
EB-2 Worldwide Final Action Date will advance to April 1, 2023.
EB-2 China Final Action Date will advance by one month to April 22, 2020.
EB-2 India Final Action Date will advance two months to October 1, 2012.
EB-3 Worldwide (all other countries) Professional/Skilled Workers Final Action Date will advance two weeks to December 1, 2022.
EB-3 China Professional/Skilled Workers Final Action Date will advance two months to June 1, 2020.
EB-3 India Professional/Skilled Workers Final Action Date will advance by three weeks to December 1, 2012.
EB-5: For the EB-5 Unreserved categories, China will remain at July 15, 2016, and India will remain at January 1, 2022. All other countries will remain current. The EB-5 set-aside categories (Rural, High Unemployment, and Infrastructure) will also remain current.
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.
