March 2024 Visa Bulletin
The Department of State has released the March 2024 Visa Bulletin for Employment and Family Based green card applications. To be eligible to file an employment-based adjustment of status application for March 2024, 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 Final Action chart and family-based will be based on Dates for Filing chart.
Highlights of the March 2024 Visa Bulletin for Employment-Based Final Action Dates:
Modest movement for EB-1 India and China and Worldwide EB-2 and EB-3 professionals.
EB-1 India Final Action Date will advance by one month to October 1, 2020.
EB-1 China Final Action Date will advance by two weeks to July 15, 2022.
EB-1 Worldwide Final Action Date is Current.
EB-2 Worldwide Final Action Date will advance by one week to November 22, 2022.
EB-2 China Final Action Date will remain unchanged at January 1, 2020.
EB-2 India Final Action Date will remain unchanged at March 1, 2012.
EB-3 Worldwide (all other countries) Professional/Skilled Workers Final Action Date will advance by one week to September 8, 2022.
EB-3 China Professional/Skilled Workers Final Action Date will remain unchanged at July 1, 2012.
EB-3 India Professional/Skilled Workers Final Action Date will remain unchanged at September 1, 2020.
EB-3 Philippines Professional/Skilled Workers Final Action Date will remain unchanged at May 1, 2020.
EB-3 Worldwide Other Workers Final Action Date will advance one week to September 8, 2020.
EB-3 China and India Other Workers Final Action Dates will remain at January 1, 2017 and July 1, 2012, respectively.
EB-5: For the EB-5 Unreserved categories (C5, T5, I5, and R5), China will remain at December 15, 2015, and India will remain at December 1, 2020. 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.
