About Visa Bulletin Tracker
Visa Bulletin Tracker is an independent data project — a free, no-signup reference to the U.S. State Department's monthly Visa Bulletin, the table of priority-date cut-offs that decides whether an immigrant visa applicant's turn has come. It publishes the current cut-off for every visa category and country of chargeability, what moved since the previous bulletin, and the full published history behind each one: 291 bulletins back to December 2001 and 29,443 published cut-offs, normalized to one schema so a category can be followed across 24 years of relabelling, with every figure stored alongside the exact text State printed for it. It exists because the bulletin is public and authoritative but published without history or context — State's own site reliably serves only the current fiscal year — and because the pages that fill that gap routinely print confident dates the data cannot support. This site answers what is a fact (whether a priority date is current) exactly, labels every estimate an estimate, and shows no number at all where the data cannot carry one. It is not affiliated with the U.S. Department of State or any government agency, nothing on it is sponsored, and it is not legal advice.
What this site is
Visa Bulletin Tracker is a free, no-signup reference to one document: the Visa Bulletin, published every month by the U.S. Department of State. The bulletin is a table of cut-off dates — one per visa category and country of chargeability — that tells someone waiting for an immigrant visa whether their turn has come. This site republishes it: the current cut-off for every category and column, what changed since last month, and the full published history behind each one.
Behind the current month sits 291 bulletins — every one State has published since December 2001 that can still be read — normalized to a single schema so that a category can be followed across 24 years of relabelling, restructuring and renaming. That is 29,443 published cut-offs, each stored with the exact text State printed for it. The July 2026 bulletin alone carries 150 published combinations, and 75 of them have a page here.
Who it is for
Anyone whose place in a queue is decided by that table: people waiting on a family petition or an employment-based green card, and the attorneys, paralegals, HR teams and family members helping them. It assumes no expertise — the home page explains what a priority date is and why the two charts disagree — and it is written for someone reading a dense date table on a phone, in a second language, hoping one number moved.
That reader is the reason for most of the decisions here. Every page loads fast and works without an account. Nothing you type is sent anywhere. The typeface carrying the data was drawn specifically for legibility. Movement is never signalled by colour alone. None of that is decoration: it is what taking this particular audience seriously actually looks like.
Why it exists
The Visa Bulletin is public, free and authoritative — and it is published as a cramped HTML table with no history, no context and no memory. State's own site reliably serves only the current fiscal year. So the obvious questions are strangely hard to answer: has my category ever moved this slowly? when did it last go backward? what did it say the month I filed? The answers are all in the public record, scattered across 24 years of separately published pages that nobody can practically read.
The rest of the answer is what fills that gap. Search for a priority date question and the results are thick with pages that will happily tell you exactly when your date will be current — a confident number, no caveat, often produced by dividing by a pace the data does not support, sometimes for a category that is issuing no visas at all. People make real decisions on those numbers. This site exists to be the other thing: the complete published record, and an answer that admits what it does not know.
What it will and will not say
Whether a priority date is current is a fact, and this site answers it for every combination State publishes. It is a comparison of two published numbers — no model, no assumption.
When a date will become current is not a fact, and no honest reading of this data can produce one. Where a cut-off is measurably advancing, this site projects that pace and calls the result an estimate every single time it appears. Where the data cannot carry even that — a category issuing no visas, a cut-off that has stopped moving, a projection running centuries out — it shows no number at all and says why. A refusal is always safe; a fabricated date is not.
It will never tell you what to file, when to file it, or what will happen to your case. It is a reference to a published table, and it is not legal advice.
How to check it
Do not take this site's word for anything — it is built so that you do not have to. Every figure is stored with the exact cell text State printed and the bulletin month it came from, and every page names that month. The methodology page is the real answer to "why should I believe this": it documents where the data comes from, why it is read from the Internet Archive rather than State's own site, the 5 months that are missing from the record and are never filled in, how far behind the newest bulletin this site can be, the typos in the source and what is done about them, and every case in which this site refuses to estimate.
That page discloses more that is wrong with this data than most sites would. That is deliberate. On a subject where being wrong costs people something real, the limits are the most useful thing there is to publish, and a reference that hides them has not earned being read.
Independence
This is an independent data project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Internet Archive, or any government agency, law firm, or immigration service. The data it publishes is a work of the U.S. Government and is in the public domain (17 U.S.C. §105): no licence, no key, no vendor, and no arrangement with anyone.
Nothing here is sponsored, and no category, country or figure is pay-to-play — the numbers are the State Department's and are not for sale. The site currently shows no ads and loads nothing from anyone else's server; if advertising is added to cover costs, the privacy policy will say so before it runs, and it still will not touch a published figure. Corrections are welcome and are the fastest way to improve this site — tell us what looks wrong.