EB-2 worldwide priority dates in the Visa Bulletin

This page tracks EB-2 for all chargeability areas except the separately listed countries: everyone born outside India, China, Mexico, and the Philippines. The column reads Current in good months and has carried cut-offs when worldwide demand caught up with the annual limit.

The tables below show the current status, any movement, and the verified history as it accumulates month by month.

Written and checked by the QueueCheck editorial team. Last checked September 29, 2026. How we verify information

Where EB-2 worldwide stands in October 2026

Final Action Dates

01JAN25

All other chargeability areas. A visa number can be authorized only for priority dates earlier than a listed cut-off.

Dates for Filing

15MAR26

USCIS has not yet named the chart that governs employment-based adjustment filings for October 2026, checked 2026-09-29. Both dates above are the bulletin's own.

The row changed form against September 2026; both months appear in the history below.

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Verified history, month by month

Every row is transcribed from the State Department's published bulletin document for that month, never from trackers or memory. The table grows as months are added.

EB-2 worldwide verified monthly cut-offs
Bulletin month	Final Action	Dates for Filing
October 2026	01JAN25	15MAR26
September 2026	C	C
August 2026	C	C
July 2026	C	C
June 2026	C	C
May 2026	C	C
April 2026	C	C
March 2026	15OCT24	C
February 2026	01APR24	15OCT24
January 2026	01APR24	15OCT24
December 2025	01FEB24	15JUL24
November 2025	01DEC23	15JUL24
October 2025	01DEC23	15JUL24

When the rest of the world queues

EB-2 receives 28.6 percent of the worldwide employment limit plus EB-1's unused numbers. In years when demand runs hot, the worldwide column itself takes a cut-off, typically late in the fiscal year as the annual limit approaches, with the new fiscal year on October 1 resetting the arithmetic.

A Current reading here means every priority date in the column qualifies for final action, so the checker on this site will return the same answer for any date entered, which is the designed behavior rather than a stuck page.

EB-2: advanced degrees and exceptional ability: every country in October 2026

The same category across all chargeability areas, both charts. Your column is your country of birth, not citizenship or residence.

EB-2: advanced degrees and exceptional ability cut-offs by chargeability area
Chart	All other chargeability areas	China (mainland born)	India	Mexico	Philippines
Final Action	01JAN25	01OCT21	01NOV13	01JAN25	01JAN25
Dates for Filing	15MAR26	01JAN23	15JAN15	15MAR26	15MAR26

Common questions

I was born in Europe but hold Indian citizenship. Which column is mine?

The worldwide column. Chargeability follows country of birth, not citizenship or residence, so a European-born applicant reads this row even on an Indian passport, and an Indian-born applicant reads the India row even with citizenship elsewhere.

Can the worldwide column really retrogress?

It has, and the bulletin's own procedures say a category or country that oversubscribes gets a cut-off at whatever date rations the remaining numbers. Late-fiscal-year tightening in high-demand years is the usual shape, and the history table here is the record of it happening or not.

Sources and scope

Transcribed from the Department of State's October 2026 Visa Bulletin (Number 19, Volume XI), checked against both the official HTML page and the seven-page published PDF. The published document contains the family-sponsored and employment-based charts and no Diversity Visa table. USCIS's separate October adjustment-of-status chart selection had not been posted when checked on September 29, 2026. The USCIS chart designation is verified on its filing-charts page when each month is entered. This page records position, never predictions, and none of it is legal advice; the official pages govern wherever anything differs.

Other tracked categories

Background reading: how to read the Visa Bulletin and the US Green Card wait page.

Plan the steps after your priority date is reached

The bulletin answers visa availability. If permanent residence later begins, these resources cover the separate setup, card-delivery and travel questions that follow.