October 2021 Visa Bulletin
The Department of State has released the October 2021 Visa Bulletin for Employment and Family Based green card applications. To be eligible to file an adjustment of status application for October 2021, 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 that it will use the Dates for Filing chart as the cutoff dates for acceptance of adjustment of status applications next month.
Highlights of the October 2021 Visa Bulletin:
EB-1 China and EB-1 India Final Action dates will remain current
EB-2 China will advance by two months to September 1, 2018
EB-2 India will advance by three months to December 1, 2011
EB-3 China will advance four years to July 1, 2019
EB-3 India will advance two months to March 1, 2014
EB-5 China (Non-Regional Center program) will advance by three weeks to December 15, 2015.
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.
