United States: November 2026 Visa Bulletin – Employment-Based Final Action Dates Advance and Dates for Filing Hold Steady for Most Countries; USCIS to Honor Dates for Filing for Employment-Based Categories

According to the State Department’s November Visa Bulletin, Final Action cutoff dates for issuance of an immigrant visa or approval of an adjustment of status application will be as follows: 

• EB-1: China will advance by one month to August 1, 2023, and India will remain at February 1, 2023.  All other countries will continue to be current.
• EB-2: China and India will remain at October 1, 2021, and November 1, 2013, respectively. All other countries will advance by three months to April 1, 2025.
• EB-3 Professionals and Skilled Workers: China will advance two weeks, to January 22, 2022 and India will advance three weeks, to January 22, 2014. The Philippines will remain at August 15, 2023. All other countries will advance by one month, to June 15, 2024.
• EB-5: For the EB-5 Unreserved categories, China will remain at December 1, 2016, and India will remain at December 1, 2023. All other countries will remain current. The EB-5 set-aside categories (Rural, High Unemployment, and Infrastructure) will also remain current.

Further, next month, USCIS will accept employment-based adjustment of status applications from foreign nationals with a priority date that is earlier than the applicable Dates for Filing chart date listed in the State Department’s November 2026 Visa Bulletin. The November employment-based Dates for Filing chart will remain the same for all countries and categories, except for the EB-3 Other Worker category, which will advance by one month to July 1, 2022 for all countries except China, India, and the Philippines.

To be eligible to file an employment-based adjustment of status application in November, foreign nationals must have a priority date that is earlier than the Date for Filing listed below for their preference category and country.