May 2023 Visa Bulletin
The Department of State has released the May 2023 Visa Bulletin for Employment and Family Based green card applications. To be eligible to file an employment-based adjustment of status application for May 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 for employment next month will be based on the Final Action Date chart. For family-based applications, the Dates for Filing chart must be used.
Highlights of the May 2023 Visa Bulletin for Dates for Filing:
EB-1 China and EB-1 India will maintain their Final Action dates of February 1, 2022. The rest of the world remains current.
EB-2 Worldwide final action date will retrogress by four and a half months to February 15, 2022.
EB-2 China final action will remain at June 8, 2019.
EB-2 India final action will remain at January 1, 2011.
EB-3 Worldwide (all other countries) Professional/Skilled Workers will retrogress to June 1, 2022.
EB-3 China Professional/Skilled Workers will advance by five months to April 1, 2019.
EB-3 India Professional/Skilled Workers will remain at June 15, 2012.
EB-3 Worldwide Other Workers will remain at remain at January 1, 2020.
EB-3 China and India Other Workers will advance to April 15, 2015 and remain at June 15, 2012, respectively.
EB-5: For the EB-5 Unreserved categories (C5, T5, I5, and R5), China will advance by two months to September 8, 2015 and India cutoff dates will remain at June 1, 2018. All other countries will remain current. The EB-5 “Set-Aside” categories (Rural, High Unemployment, and Infrastructure) will 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.
