January 2024 Visa Bulletin
The Department of State has released the January 2024 Visa Bulletin for Employment and Family Based green card applications. To be eligible to file an employment-based adjustment of status application for January 2024, you must have a Priority Date that is earlier than the date listed on the chart here for your preference category and country. USCIS has announced on its own Visa Bulletin web page the cutoff dates for acceptance of adjustment of status applications for both family and employment-based next month will be based on the Dates for Filing chart.
Highlights of the January 2024 Visa Bulletin for Employment-Based Final Action Dates:
EB-1 and EB-5 categories for India advance significantly, other employment based categories advance across most categories.
EB-1 India Date for Filing is January 1, 2021.
EB-1 China Date for Filing is January 1, 2023.
EB-1 Worldwide Date for Filing is Current.
EB-2 Worldwide Date for Filing is February 15, 2023.
EB-2 China Date for Filing is June 1, 2020.
EB-2 India Date for Filing is May 15, 2012.
EB-3 Worldwide (all other countries) Professional/Skilled Workers Date for Filing is February 1, 2023.
EB-3 China Professional/Skilled Workers Date for Filing is July 1, 2021.
EB-3 India Professional/Skilled Workers Date for Filing is August 1, 2012.
EB-3 Philippines Professional/Skilled Workers Date for Filing is January 1, 2023.
EB-3 Worldwide Other Workers Date for Filing is December 15, 2020.
EB-3 China and India Other Workers Dates for Filing are June 1, 2017 and August 1, 2012, respectively.
EB-5: For the EB-5 Unreserved categories (C5, T5, I5, and R5), India are April 1, 2022, and China January 1, 2017. All other countries will remain current. The EB-5 set-aside categories (Rural, High Unemployment, and Infrastructure) will also remain current for all countries.
KEY TERMS
Priority Date (Employment-based): the date your immigrant petition (I-140 petition) was filed, or if you were subject to the PERM Labor Market Test process, the date the Labor Certification was filed with the Department of Labor.
Priority Date (Family-based): the date your immigrant petition (I-130 petition) was filed.
Preference Category (Employment-based): First Preference is EB-1 Priority Workers (i.e. Extraordinary Ability, Outstanding Researcher, or Multinational Manager petitions), Second Preference is EB-2 Members of the Professions Holding Advanced Degrees or Persons of Exceptional Ability; Third Preference is EB-3 Skilled Workers, Professionals, and Other Workers, Fourth Preference is Certain Special Immigrants, and Fifth Preference is EB-5 Employment Creation.
Preference Category (Family-based): First Preference is Unmarried Sons and Daughters of U.S. Citizens, Second Preference is Spouses and Children, and Unmarried Sons and Daughters of Permanent Residents broken down to F2A (Spouses and Children of Permanent Residents) and F2B (Unmarried Sons and Daughters (21 years of age or older) of Permanent Residents), Third Preference is Married Sons and Daughters of U.S. Citizens, and Fourth Preference is Brothers and Sisters of Adult U.S. Citizens.
Country: This is the country of your birth, even if you have become a citizen in a different country.
