EB-3 India priority dates in the Visa Bulletin

EB-3 India covers skilled workers and professionals born in India. Its cut-off has sat more than a decade behind the calendar for years, and it moves in small, uneven steps that only a running record makes legible.

The tables below show the current position under both charts, this month's movement, and the verified history from the primary documents.

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

Where EB-3 India stands in October 2026

Final Action Dates

01JAN14

India. A visa number can be authorized only for priority dates earlier than a listed cut-off.

Dates for Filing

15JAN15

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 final action position is unchanged from September 2026.

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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-3 India verified monthly cut-offs
Bulletin month	Final Action	Dates for Filing
October 2026	01JAN14	15JAN15
September 2026	01JAN14	15JAN15
August 2026	01JAN14	15JAN15
July 2026	01JAN14	15JAN15
June 2026	15DEC13	15JAN15
May 2026	15NOV13	15JAN15
April 2026	15NOV13	15JAN15
March 2026	15NOV13	15AUG14
February 2026	15NOV13	15AUG14
January 2026	15NOV13	15AUG14
December 2025	22SEP13	15AUG14
November 2025	22AUG13	15AUG14
October 2025	22AUG13	15AUG14

A line that trades places with the one above it

EB-3 receives 28.6 percent of the worldwide employment limit plus anything the first and second preferences leave unused. For India the practical story has been the relationship with EB-2: the two categories' cut-offs have crossed and re-crossed, and downgrade filings from EB-2 to EB-3 have surged whenever EB-3's date ran ahead.

The Other Workers subcategory shares EB-3's allocation but is capped at 10,000 a year worldwide, reduced slightly by a statutory offset, and it carries its own row on the charts below.

EB-3: skilled workers and professionals: 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-3: skilled workers and professionals cut-offs by chargeability area
Chart	All other chargeability areas	China (mainland born)	India	Mexico	Philippines
Final Action	15MAY24	08JAN22	01JAN14	15MAY24	15AUG23
Dates for Filing	01AUG24	01APR24	15JAN15	01AUG24	01JAN24

Common questions

Why would anyone downgrade from EB-2 to EB-3?

Because the categories' cut-offs cross. When EB-3 India's date runs ahead of EB-2 India's, a downgrade can make a case reachable sooner, and when the dates cross back the traffic reverses. The history tables on these two pages are the record of exactly those crossings as they accumulate.

Does my approved I-140 expire while I wait out the cut-off?

An approved petition does not lapse from waiting, and the priority date it established is yours through the queue. Employer changes and portability rules have their own requirements, which are case facts for counsel rather than chart facts.

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.