The April 2025 visa bulletin has been published. USCIS will be accepting cases this month based on final action, not dates for filing, for employment-based cases. Changes are as follows for both charts. If a change is not listed here, the date remained the same.
Final Action:
*Please note that while most of the categories move forward, EB4/religious workers become unavailable. Further, EB5 (unreserved) China and India categories retrogress substantially.*
EB1:
- India: moved from February 01, 2022, to February 15, 2022.
EB2:
- Rest of World: moved from May 15, 2023, to June 22, 2023.
- China: moved from May 08, 2020, to October 01, 2020.
- India: moved from December 01, 2012, to January 01, 2013.
- Mexico: moved from May 15, 2023, to June 22, 2023.
- Philippines: moved from May 15, 2023, to June 22, 2023.
EB3:
- Rest of World: moved from December 01, 2022, to January 01, 2023.
- China: moved from August 01, 2020, to November 01, 2020.
- India: moved from February 01, 2013, to April 01, 2013.
- Mexico: moved from December 01, 2022, to January 01, 2023.
- Philippines: moved from December 01, 2022, to January 01, 2023.
Other Workers:
- Rest of World: moved from February 01, 2021, to May 22, 2021.
- China: moved from January 01, 2017, to April 01, 2017.
- India: moved from February 01, 2013, to April 01, 2013.
- Mexico: moved from January 15, 2021, to May 22, 2021.
- Philippines: moved from February 01, 2021, to May 22, 2021.
EB4/Religious Workers:
- Rest of World: moved from August 01, 2019, to unavailable.
- China: moved from August 01, 2019, to unavailable.
- India: moved from August 01, 2019, to unavailable.
- Mexico: moved from August 01, 2019, to unavailable.
- Philippines: moved from August 01, 2019, to unavailable.
EB5 (Unreserved)
- China: moved from July 15, 2016, to January 22, 2014.
- India: moved from January 01, 2022, to November 01, 2019.
Dates for Filing
EB2:
- China: moved from October 01, 2020, to November 01, 2020.
- India: moved from January 01, 2013, to February 01, 2013.
Other Workers:
- Rest of World: moved from May 22, 2021, to June 22, 2021.
- Mexico: moved from May 22, 2021, to June 22, 2021.
- Philippines: moved from May 22, 2021, to June 22, 2021.
