The April 2026 visa bulletin has been published. USCIS will be accepting cases in April based on dates for filing, not on final action, for employment-based cases. Changes are as follows for both charts. If a change is not listed here, the date remains the same.
Dates for Filing
EB2
- India: moved from November 1, 2014, to January 15, 2015.
EB3
- Rest of World: moved from January 15, 2024, to Current.
- India: moved from August 15, 2014, to January 15, 2015.
- Mexico: moved January 15, 2024, to Current.
Other Workers
- Rest of World: moved from June 22, 2022, to August 1, 2022.
- India: moved from August 14, 2014, to January 15, 2015.
- Mexico: moved from June 22, 2022, to August 1, 2022.
- Philippines: moved from June 22, 2022, to August 1, 2022.
Final Action
EB1
- China: moved from March 1, 2023, to April 1, 2023.
- India: moved from March 1, 2023, to April 1, 2023.
EB2
- Rest of World: moved from October 15, 2024, to Current.
- India: moved from September 15, 2013, to July 15, 2014.
- Mexico: moved from October 15, 2024, to Current.
- Philippines: moved from October 15, 2024, to Current.
EB3
- Rest of World: moved from October 1, 2023, to June 1, 2024.
- China: moved from May 1, 2021, to June 15, 2021.
- Mexico: moved from October 1, 2023, to June 1, 2024.
Other Workers
- China: moved from December 8, 2018, to February 1, 2019.
EB4
- Rest of World: moved from July 15, 2021, to July 15, 2022.
- China: moved from July 15, 2021, to July 15, 2022.
- India: moved from July 15, 2021, to July 15, 2022.
- Mexico: moved from July 15, 2021, to July 15, 2022.
- Philippines: moved from July 15, 2021, to July 15, 2022.
Certain Religious workers
- Rest of World: moved from July 15, 2021, to July 15, 2022.
- China: moved from July 15, 2021, to July 15, 2022.
- India: moved from July 15, 2021, to July 15, 2022.
- Mexico: moved from July 15, 2021, to July 15, 2022.
- Philippines: moved from July 15, 2021, to July 15, 2022.
EB5 Unreserved
- China: moved from August 15, 2016, to September 1, 2016.