September 2024 Visa Bulletin
The Department of State has released the September 2024 Visa Bulletin for Employment and Family Based green card applications. To be eligible to file an employment-based adjustment of status application for September 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 September 2024 Visa Bulletin for Employment-Based Final Action Dates:
EB-3 will retrogress for most countries next month; other categories remain unchanged. Because of sustained high demand, the State Department anticipates that employment-based immigrant visas may be exhausted for many categories and countries sometime in September, if not earlier. With respect to the EB-3 Professional, Skilled Worker, and Other Worker subcategories, the State Department anticipates that Final Action dates could advance in October, when Fiscal Year 2025 begins, but cautions that date movements will depend on actual demand.
EB-1 India Final Action Date will remain at Februart 1, 2022.
EB-1 China Final Action Date will remain at November 1, 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 remain at March 1, 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 remain at September 1, 2020.
EB-3 India Professional/Skilled Workers Final Action Date will remain to October 22, 2012,
EB-3 Worldwide Other Workers Final Action Date will retrogress one month to Devember 1, 2020.
EB-3 China, India, and Philippines Other Workers Final Action Dates will remain at January 1, 2017, October 22, 2012, and May 1, 2020, respectively.
EB-5: For the EB-5 Unreserved categories (C5, T5, I5, and R5), China will remain at December 15, 2015, and India will stay 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.
