September 2022 Visa Bulletin
The Department of State has released the September 2022 Visa Bulletin for Employment and Family Based green card applications. To be eligible to file an employment-based adjustment of status application for September 2022, 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 Final Action Dates chart as the cutoff dates for acceptance of employment-based adjustment of status applications next month.
Highlights of the September 2022 Visa Bulletin:
EB-1 China and EB-1 India Final Action dates will remain current, including India and China.
EB-2 China will remain unchanged at April 1, 2019.
EB-2 India will remain unchanged at December 1, 2014.
EB-3 China Professional/Skilled Workers will remain unchanged at April 22, 2018.
EB-3 India Professional/Skilled Workers will remain unchanged at February 15, 2012.
EB-3 Worldwide Other Workers will remain unchanged at May 8, 2019. India and China Other Workers will remain at February 15, 2012 and June 1, 2012 respectively.
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.
