EB-5 India priority dates in the Visa Bulletin

EB-5 is the investor category, and for India it has become a story of two doors: the unreserved line that carries most historical demand, and the newer set-asides that have their own separate allocations.

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

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

Where EB-5 India stands in October 2026

Final Action Dates

01DEC23

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

Dates for Filing

01MAY24

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-5 India verified monthly cut-offs
Bulletin month	Final Action	Dates for Filing
October 2026	01DEC23	01MAY24
September 2026	U	01MAY24
August 2026	U	01MAY24
July 2026	U	01MAY24
June 2026	01MAY22	01MAY24
May 2026	01MAY22	01MAY24
April 2026	01MAY22	01MAY24
March 2026	01MAY22	01MAY24
February 2026	01MAY22	01MAY24
January 2026	01MAY22	01MAY24
December 2025	01JUL21	01APR22
November 2025	01FEB21	01APR22
October 2025	01FEB21	01APR22

One category, four allocations

EB-5 receives 7.1 percent of the worldwide employment limit, and by statute 32 percent of it is reserved: 20 percent for rural investments, 10 percent for high-unemployment areas, and 2 percent for infrastructure projects. The remaining 68 percent is the unreserved pool that most pre-2022 cases and most Indian demand sit in.

The set-asides have their own rows and their own availability, which is how the bulletin can print a U for India's unreserved line in the same month the rural and high-unemployment rows read Current. For a new investor the difference between those rows is the difference between joining a closed queue and an open one.

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

The unreserved row shows U for India but the set-asides show C. How can both be true?

They are separate allocations by statute. The reserved pools are newer and carry far less accumulated demand, so they have stayed open while the unreserved pool's per-country share for India exhausts. Which pool a case belongs to is fixed by the investment's category, and the rows never mix.

Does a U in EB-5 unreserved affect a pending set-aside case?

No. Each row's availability is its own. A set-aside case reads the set-aside row, and the unreserved row's exhaustion neither blocks nor slows it.

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

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