EB-5 China priority dates in the Visa Bulletin

EB-5 China is the oldest backlog in the investor category: mainland-born demand from the program's busiest years still defines the unreserved queue. The set-aside pools created later follow their own allocations and their own rows.

The tables below show the unreserved line's current position, this month's movement, and the verified history, with the set-aside rows in the full chart tables.

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

Where EB-5 China stands in October 2026

Final Action Dates

01DEC16

China (mainland born). A visa number can be authorized only for priority dates earlier than a listed cut-off.

Dates for Filing

01MAR21

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-5 China verified monthly cut-offs
Bulletin month	Final Action	Dates for Filing
October 2026	01DEC16	01MAR21
September 2026	01DEC16	01MAR17
August 2026	01DEC16	01MAR17
July 2026	01DEC16	01MAR17
June 2026	22SEP16	01MAR17
May 2026	22SEP16	01MAR17
April 2026	01SEP16	01OCT16
March 2026	15AUG16	01OCT16
February 2026	15AUG16	22AUG16
January 2026	15AUG16	22AUG16
December 2025	15JUL16	22JUL16
November 2025	08DEC15	01JUL16
October 2025	08DEC15	01JUL16

Old demand, new pools

The category's 7.1 percent share of the worldwide limit splits by statute: 68 percent unreserved, 20 percent reserved for rural investment, 10 percent for high-unemployment areas, and 2 percent for infrastructure. China's unreserved column carries a cut-off nearly a decade back because filings from the mid-2010s exceeded the per-country share many times over.

The reserved pools carry little accumulated demand by comparison and have stayed open in months when the unreserved column did not, which is why new mainland-born investors and pre-2022 petitioners can face entirely different waits inside the same category.

EB-5: unreserved investor visas: 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-5: unreserved investor visas cut-offs by chargeability area
Chart	All other chargeability areas	China (mainland born)	India	Mexico	Philippines
Final Action	C	01DEC16	01DEC23	C	C
Dates for Filing	C	01MAR21	01MAY24	C	C

Common questions

I invested years ago under the old rules. Which row is mine?

Pre-2022 petitions sit in the unreserved pool and read the unreserved row for China. The set-aside rows belong to petitions filed under the reserved allocations created by the 2022 reform, and the pools do not mix.

Why does the China unreserved date barely move?

The queue in front of it is deep and the annual inflow of numbers is fixed: 68 percent of a 7.1 percent slice, shared under the per-country ceiling. Movement happens when older cases resolve or spillover arrives, and the history table records exactly how much arrives each month.

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.