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Employment-based Green Card: timing depends on EB category, priority date, country of chargeability, PERM or I-140 stage, I-485 or consular processing, and Visa Bulletin movement
Last checked August 13, 2026.
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Current wait at a glance
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Official wait
Depends on category and priority date
Published as official guidance rather than one number; the official summary on this page has the full picture.
Updated Aug 13
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Official updates over time
Employment-based Green Card: timing depends on EB category, priority date, country of chargeability, PERM or I-140 stage, I-485 or consular processing, and Visa Bulletin movement
Updated Aug 13, 2026, 4:33 PM
Guidance
Employment-based Green Card: timing depends on EB category, priority date, country of chargeability, PERM or I-140 stage, I-485 or consular processing, and Visa Bulletin movement
Updated Jul 18, 2026, 10:04 AM
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Reading the Employment-based Green Card figure
Three agencies, one journey
An employment-based Green Card is not one queue at one agency. The Department of Labor owns the PERM labour-certification stage for most EB-2 and EB-3 cases, USCIS owns the I-140 petition and, for people adjusting status inside the country, the I-485, and the State Department controls the visa-number stage through the monthly Visa Bulletin and any consular processing abroad. A published processing figure belongs to exactly one of those legs, which is why journey totals people quote each other rarely match anything an agency publishes.
The queue is set by country of birth, not by merit or effort
Immigrant visa numbers carry per-country ceilings written into the statute, so applicants born in countries with heavy demand wait behind a line that has nothing to do with the strength of their petition or their employer's urgency. Two identical cases filed the same day by the same employer can be years apart purely on country of chargeability. Recognising that early separates the delays worth acting on from the ones no filing strategy touches.
The priority date is an asset worth protecting
The priority date established at the start of the process is a place in line that generally travels with the beneficiary rather than the job: changing employers, or moving between EB categories, does not automatically forfeit it, and an approved petition can preserve it in ways a withdrawn or denied one cannot. Anyone weighing a job change mid-process should understand what happens to that date before resigning, because the answer depends on facts a general article cannot assess.
Where the wait actually accumulates
For applicants from countries without a backlog, the process is a chain of processing stages and moves roughly at the speed agencies work. For applicants from backlogged countries, processing speed becomes almost irrelevant next to the visa-number wait, and the Visa Bulletin's month-to-month movement is the only thing that changes the arrival date. Reading which of those two situations you are in is the first useful thing this page can do for you.
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Where does your priority date stand this month?
Pick your category and country of chargeability and read your date against the current bulletin's charts, including the one USCIS accepts for adjustment filings. Every cell is transcribed from the State Department's own document.
October 2026 Visa BulletinNews
Recent official updates connected to this queue.
Aug 20, 2026
October 2026 Visa Bulletin: what the State Department actually said, and what is forecast
The October 2026 Visa Bulletin is not published yet. The July bulletin said an October advance was likely for EB-2 India and EB-5 unreserved India, and named the months whose dates it would reach; it also made both statements conditional on demand and the FY 2027 limit. Here are those exact dates, the conditions attached, why October 1 resets the numbers, and where the widely shared October 2026 Visa Bulletin predictions stop being official.
Jul 18, 2026
EB-2 India unavailable for the rest of FY2026: what the Visa Bulletin means
EB-2 India is unavailable for final Green Card action until the fiscal year resets on October 1, 2026, and the August bulletin confirms it. Here is what unavailable means, what it does not mean, and what Indian employment-based applicants should track next.