EMPLOYMENT-BASED · U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
U.S. Visa Bulletin history 2000–2025
Every monthly bulletin since 2000: how the EB-3 skilled and Other Workers cutoff dates moved, retrogressed and jumped, for Bangladesh (All Chargeability), India, China, the Philippines and Mexico.
Cutoff dates, month by month
Press play to watch 235 bulletins in motion. Switch the category, the chart (Final Action or Dates for Filing) and what to measure. Tap or hover the chart to read any month.
Who waits longest?
How many years behind the bulletin month each country's cutoff date is. The bars move with the chart above.
- Bangladesh & all other countries2.3 yrs
- India12.2 yrs
- China4.6 yrs
- Philippines2.4 yrs
- Mexico2.3 yrs
Key moments for Bangladesh (All Chargeability)
EB-3 Skilled
- 2.3 yrs
- wait in the latest bulletin
- 7.5 yrs
- longest wait, in December 2009
- −4.9 yrs
- biggest one-month retrogression, in September 2007
- +3.2 yrs
- biggest one-month jump forward, in October 2019
- 87
- months the category was “Current”
EB-3 Other Workers
- 4.0 yrs
- wait in the latest bulletin
- 9.1 yrs
- longest wait, in July 2010
- −3.6 yrs
- biggest one-month retrogression, in March 2005
- +3.2 yrs
- biggest one-month jump forward, in October 2019
- 69
- months the category was “Current”
October bulletin of every fiscal year
Final Action dates. The U.S. fiscal year starts in October, when new annual visa numbers become available.
| Bulletin | EB-3 Skilled · BD | EB-3 wait · BD | EB-3 Other Workers · BD | EB-3 · India | EB-3 · China | EB-3 · Philippines | EB-3 · Mexico |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | 1 Apr 2023 | 2.3 yrs | 8 Jul 2021 | 22 Apr 2013 | 1 Dec 2020 | 8 Feb 2023 | 1 Apr 2023 |
| October 2024 | 15 Nov 2022 | 1.9 yrs | 1 Dec 2020 | 1 Nov 2012 | 1 Apr 2020 | 15 Nov 2022 | 15 Nov 2022 |
| October 2021 | Current | 0.0 yrs | Current | 1 Jan 2014 | 8 Jan 2019 | Current | Current |
| October 2019 | Current | 0.0 yrs | Current | 1 Jan 2009 | 1 Nov 2015 | 15 Oct 2017 | Current |
| October 2017 | Current | 0.0 yrs | Current | 15 Oct 2006 | 1 Jan 2014 | 1 Dec 2015 | Current |
| October 2016 | 1 Jun 2016 | 0.3 yrs | 1 Jun 2016 | 1 Mar 2005 | 22 Jan 2013 | 1 Dec 2010 | 1 Jun 2016 |
| October 2015 | 15 Aug 2015 | 0.1 yrs | 15 Aug 2015 | 8 Mar 2004 | 15 Oct 2011 | 1 Jan 2007 | 15 Aug 2015 |
| October 2014 | 1 Oct 2011 | 3.0 yrs | 1 Oct 2011 | 15 Nov 2003 | 1 Apr 2009 | 1 Oct 2011 | 1 Oct 2011 |
| October 2013 | 1 Jul 2010 | 3.3 yrs | 1 Jul 2010 | 22 Sep 2003 | 1 Jul 2010 | 15 Dec 2006 | 1 Jul 2010 |
| October 2011 | 8 Dec 2005 | 5.8 yrs | 15 Sep 2005 | 15 Jul 2002 | 8 Aug 2004 | 8 Dec 2005 | 8 Dec 2005 |
| October 2010 | 8 Jan 2005 | 5.7 yrs | 22 Mar 2003 | 15 Jan 2002 | 8 Nov 2003 | 8 Jan 2005 | 22 Apr 2001 |
| October 2008 | 1 Jan 2005 | 3.7 yrs | 1 Jan 2003 | 1 Jul 2001 | 1 Oct 2001 | 1 Jan 2005 | 1 Jul 2002 |
| October 2007 | 1 Aug 2002 | 5.2 yrs | 1 Oct 2001 | 22 Apr 2001 | 1 Sep 2001 | 1 Aug 2002 | 22 Apr 2001 |
| October 2006 | 1 May 2002 | 4.4 yrs | 1 Jan 2001 | 22 Apr 2001 | 1 May 2002 | 1 May 2002 | 1 May 2001 |
| October 2005 | 1 Mar 2001 | 4.6 yrs | 1 Oct 2000 | – | – | – | 1 May 2000 |
| October 2004 | Current | 0.0 yrs | Current | Current | – | Current | Current |
| October 2003 | Current | 0.0 yrs | Current | Current | – | Current | Current |
| October 2002 | Current | 0.0 yrs | Current | Current | – | Current | Current |
| October 2000 | Current | 0.0 yrs | 1 Nov 1995 | Current | 8 Feb 1997 | Current | 15 Mar 1998 |
| August 2000 | Current | 0.0 yrs | 1 Apr 1995 | Current | 1 Feb 1997 | Current | 1 Jun 1997 |
How to read the Visa Bulletin
- Your priority date is the date your PERM was filed. When the bulletin’s cutoff date passes your priority date, your green card can be issued.
- Bangladesh has no separate column: Bangladeshi applicants use “All Chargeability Areas”, shown here as Bangladesh & all other countries.
- “Current” means no waiting for that month; “Unavailable” means no visas could be issued that month.
- A cutoff date can move backwards (retrogression) when demand is higher than the yearly quota. The past is not a promise of the future: it shows the pattern, not your exact date.
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Source: monthly Visa Bulletins of the U.S. Department of State (travel.state.gov and the State Department’s 1995–2001 archive), read from Internet Archive copies. Updated 2026-10-28 20:51 UTC. Months without an archived copy: 2001-08, 2001-09, 2001-10, 2001-11, 2004-03, 2005-08, 2006-03, 2006-04, 2006-09, 2007-04, 2008-09, 2009-03, 2009-09, 2009-10, 2009-11, 2012-10, 2015-04, 2015-07, 2016-09, 2016-11, 2018-02, 2018-07, 2018-10, 2019-03, 2019-05, 2019-07, 2019-09, 2019-12, 2020-05, 2020-07, 2020-09, 2020-10, 2020-12, 2021-01, 2021-04, 2021-05, 2021-09, 2022-01, 2022-02, 2022-03 …. GVS is not affiliated with these employers or the U.S. government. Past PERM approvals do not mean an employer is hiring now or that a future case will be approved. Personal names, attorneys and agents are not shown.