October 2024 Visa Bulletin
The Department of State has released the October 2024 Visa Bulletin for Employment and Family Based green card applications. To be eligible to file an employment-based adjustment of status application for October 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 Dates for Filing chart and family-based will be based on Dates for Filing chart.
Highlights of the October 2024 Visa Bulletin for Employment-Based Final Action Dates:
China EB-3 Professionals/Skilled Workers will retrogress by five months, to April 1, 2020, which is unusual for the start of a fiscal year, when a new annual allotment of immigrant visas becomes available and annual immigrant visa limits re-set.
EB-1 India Final Action Date will remain at February 1, 2022.
EB-1 China Final Action Date will advance by one week to November 8, 2022.
EB-1 Worldwide Final Action Date is Current.
EB-2 Worldwide Final Action Date will remain at March 15, 2023.
EB-2 China Final Action Date will advance by three weeks to March 22, 2020.
EB-2 India Final Action Date will remain at July 15, 2012.
EB-3 Worldwide (all other countries) Professional/Skilled Workers Final Action Date will retrogress one year to December 1, 2020.
EB-3 China Professional/Skilled Workers Final Action Date will retrogress by five months to April 1, 2020.
EB-3 India Professional/Skilled Workers Final Action Date will advance by almost two years to November 15, 2022.
EB-5: For the EB-5 Unreserved categories (C5, T5, I5, and R5), China will advance by seven months, to July 15, 2016, and India will advance by more than one year, to 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.
