Employment-based · All listed chargeability areas

EB4 priority date by country

Follow the EB4 cutoff for All listed chargeability areas across the bulletins in this dataset.

Final action · Dec 15, 2022Filing · Jan 1, 2025Latest bulletin · November 2026

China India Mexico Philippines All listed

Final action dates

Cutoff history

134 bulletins

All except listedChinaIndiaMexicoPhilippines

Higher on the chart means a later cutoff. C and U entries have no dated point.

November 2026 bulletin

Is my EB4 priority date current?

Enter the priority date from your I-797 receipt notice. We compare it with both of this month's EB4 cutoffs.

Uses this bulletin only. Not legal advice.

History, not a forecast

EB4 (all other countries) wait time: what the dates show

3.9 yearsbetween the November 2026 bulletin and its final action cutoff (Dec 15, 2022)

+29 mocutoff movement over the last 12 bulletins (from Jul 1, 2020)

Only people with priority dates before the cutoff can get a visa number this month. The gap shows how far behind the line is today. It does not tell you how long your own case will take, because cutoffs can stall or move back.

Recent cutoff dates

Bulletin	Final action	Dates for filing
November 2026	Dec 15, 2022	Jan 1, 2025
October 2026	Dec 15, 2022	Jan 1, 2025
September 2026	Dec 15, 2022	Jan 1, 2023
August 2026	Oct 15, 2022	Jan 1, 2023
July 2026	Sep 15, 2022	Jan 1, 2023
June 2026	Jul 15, 2022	Jan 1, 2023
May 2026	Jul 15, 2022	Jan 1, 2023
April 2026	Jul 15, 2022	Jan 1, 2023
March 2026	Jul 15, 2021	Jan 1, 2023
February 2026	Jan 1, 2021	Mar 15, 2021
January 2026	Jan 1, 2021	Mar 15, 2021
December 2025	Sep 1, 2020	Feb 15, 2021

More EB4 history

EB1 · all listed EB2 · all listed EB3 · all listed EB3 OTHER · all listed EB4 RELIGIOUS · all listed EB5 UNRESERVED · all listed All chargeability except listed Priority date basics Backlog arithmetic

Source record: U.S. Department of State Visa Bulletin. Historical summaries are arithmetic, not a forecast.