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EB-2 — India

preference · Final Action Dates Unavailable · Dates for Filing not published · August 2026 bulletin

In the August 2026 Visa Bulletin, EB-2 for India has a Final Action Dates cut-off of Unavailable and no Dates for Filing chart published this bulletin. EB-2 is Unavailable for India in this bulletin: State is issuing no visas in the category at all, so there is no cut-off date to compare a priority date against and no estimate is possible. This page carries the full published history State printed for this combination: 285 Final Action Dates bulletins back to December 2001, and 130 Dates for Filing bulletins back to October 2015 — every cut-off, every month it moved, and the exact text State printed in each cell. It reports what was published; it is not legal advice.

Source bulletin August 2026 U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs — Visa Bulletin. A work of the U.S. Government, in the public domain (17 U.S.C. §105). Every figure below is the one State printed, kept with its exact source text.

The August 2026 cut-offs

State publishes two charts for EB-2, and they are not interchangeable. Both are shown here as printed. India has its own column because demand from applicants chargeable there exceeds the per-country limit, so its cut-offs are usually further behind than the "all other countries" column.

This is not legal advice This page republishes cut-off dates exactly as the State Department published them. It cannot tell you what will happen to your case, and being current in a chart is not the same as a visa being issued. Cut-off dates routinely stall, and they can move backward without warning. For advice about your situation, consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Final Action Dates

The chart that decides whether a visa can be issued. State has published a Final Action Dates figure for EB-2 / India in 285 bulletins since December 2001.

Final Action Dates: when would a priority date be reached?

What this bulletin publishes This category is Unavailable in the August 2026 bulletin. State printed the cell as U — there is no cut-off date here to compare a priority date against.

No estimate is possible: no visas are being issued in this category

This category is UNAVAILABLE (U) in the newest bulletin — no visas are being issued in it at all. There is no cut-off to project from, so no wait can be estimated.

How fast has this cut-off actually moved?
Measured movement of the Final Action Dates cut-off over its trailing published bulletins. This describes what already happened. It is not a forecast, and it is not what any estimate on this page is computed from.
Window Bulletins used Total movement Average per month
Last 3 bulletins May 2026 – August 2026 1 of 3 carried a measurable move 317 days backward not measurable
Last 6 bulletins February 2026 – August 2026 4 of 6 carried a measurable move 48 days forward about 12 days forward
Last 12 bulletins August 2025 – August 2026 10 of 12 carried a measurable move 243 days forward about 24.3 days forward

This table describes what already happened; it is not a forecast and it is not what any estimate on this page is computed from. A pace can be zero, or negative when the cut-off has been moving backward, and some windows have nothing measurable in them at all — a category that spent the window Current or Unavailable has no distance to average. A category State has stopped moving can also keep showing a pace from a window that closed years ago, which describes that window and nothing since.

Final Action Dates — the full published history December 2001 – August 2026 · 285 published bulletins · cut-offs from 1 November 1999 to 1 December 2014
Final Action Dates: EB-2, India, December 2001 – August 2026 Final Action Dates for EB-2, India, December 2001 – August 2026. 234 of 285 published bulletins carry a dated cut-off, ranging from 1 November 1999 to 1 December 2014. Current (no backlog) in 40 months. Unavailable (no visas issued) in 11 months. 15 retrogressions (the cut-off moving backward) are marked. 4 breaks in the line where months are missing; the line is never drawn across them. C Current — no backlog: December 2001 to November 2002 (12 bulletins) Current — no backlog: July 2003 to September 2005 (27 bulletins) Current — no backlog: July 2007 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 State published a bulletin, but did not list this category: December 2002 to June 2003. The line is not drawn across it. No bulletin in the public record: March 2009. The line is not drawn across it. No bulletin in the public record: September 2009 to November 2009. The line is not drawn across it. No bulletin in the public record: October 2012. The line is not drawn across it. Retrogressed December 2007: 1 April 2004 back to 1 January 2002 (821 days backward) Retrogressed January 2008: 1 January 2002 back to 1 January 2000 (731 days backward) Retrogressed October 2008: 1 August 2006 back to 1 April 2003 (1,218 days backward) Retrogressed June 2009: 15 February 2004 back to 1 January 2000 (1,506 days backward) Retrogressed May 2012: 1 May 2010 back to 15 August 2007 (990 days backward) Retrogressed December 2013: 15 June 2008 back to 15 November 2004 (1,308 days backward) Retrogressed November 2014: 1 May 2009 back to 15 February 2005 (1,536 days backward) Retrogressed September 2015: 1 October 2008 back to 1 January 2006 (1,004 days backward) Retrogressed October 2015: 1 January 2006 back to 1 May 2005 (245 days backward) Retrogressed June 2016: 22 November 2008 back to 1 October 2004 (1,513 days backward) Retrogressed September 2018: 15 March 2009 back to 1 January 2007 (804 days backward) Retrogressed October 2022: 1 December 2014 back to 1 April 2012 (974 days backward) Retrogressed December 2022: 1 April 2012 back to 8 October 2011 (176 days backward) Retrogressed April 2023: 8 October 2011 back to 1 January 2011 (280 days backward) Retrogressed June 2026: 15 July 2014 back to 1 September 2013 (317 days backward) U Unavailable — no visas issued: August 2006 to September 2006 (2 bulletins) Unavailable — no visas issued: August 2007 Unavailable — no visas issued: February 2008 to March 2008 (2 bulletins) Unavailable — no visas issued: June 2012 to September 2012 (4 bulletins) Unavailable — no visas issued: July 2026 to August 2026 (2 bulletins) 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024

Every published cut-off is on the line above; the table below lists every month it moved.

  • Published cut-off date
  • Retrogression — the cut-off moved backward (15)
  • C — Current: no backlog. Not a date, so it is not on the line
  • U — Unavailable: no visas issued. Not a date either
  • No bulletin in the public record — the line stops rather than crossing it
  • State published a bulletin but did not list this category
Final Action Dates — the 24 most recent of 155 bulletins in which this cut-off changed, newest first. Months in which it held steady are not listed: it held in 130 of the published bulletins. Direction is shown by the ↑ / ↓ glyph and the word, never by colour alone.
Bulletin From To What changed
July 20261 September 2013UnavailableBecame Unavailable
June 202615 July 20141 September 2013Retrogressed317 days
April 202615 September 201315 July 2014Advanced303 days
March 202615 July 201315 September 2013Advanced62 days
January 202615 May 201315 July 2013Advanced61 days
December 20251 April 201315 May 2013Advanced44 days
October 20251 January 20131 April 2013Advanced90 days
April 20251 December 20121 January 2013Advanced31 days
March 202515 October 20121 December 2012Advanced47 days
February 20251 October 201215 October 2012Advanced14 days
January 20251 August 20121 October 2012Advanced61 days
December 202415 July 20121 August 2012Advanced17 days
August 202415 June 201215 July 2012Advanced30 days
July 202415 April 201215 June 2012Advanced61 days
May 20241 April 201215 April 2012Advanced14 days
April 20241 March 20121 April 2012Advanced31 days
January 20241 January 20121 March 2012Advanced60 days
October 20231 January 20111 January 2012Advanced365 days
April 20238 October 20111 January 2011Retrogressed280 days
December 20221 April 20128 October 2011Retrogressed176 days
October 20221 December 20141 April 2012Retrogressed974 days
July 20221 September 20141 December 2014Advanced91 days
June 20221 September 20131 September 2014Advanced365 days
May 20228 July 20131 September 2013Advanced55 days
Show the earlier 131 changes — back to December 2002
The remaining 131 bulletins in which the Final Action Dates cut-off changed, newest first, back to December 2002. 3 of these span more than one month, because State published no bulletin for the months named in the row — the change is real, but it did not happen in a single month, and is not shown as if it did.
Bulletin From To What changed
April 20221 May 20138 July 2013Advanced68 days
March 20221 January 20131 May 2013Advanced120 days
February 20228 July 20121 January 2013Advanced177 days
January 20221 May 20128 July 2012Advanced68 days
December 20211 December 20111 May 2012Advanced152 days
November 20211 September 20111 December 2011Advanced91 days
September 20211 June 20111 September 2011Advanced92 days
July 20211 December 20101 June 2011Advanced182 days
June 20211 August 20101 December 2010Advanced122 days
May 20211 May 20101 August 2010Advanced92 days
April 202115 January 20101 May 2010Advanced106 days
March 202112 October 200915 January 2010Advanced95 days
February 20218 October 200912 October 2009Advanced4 days
January 20211 October 20098 October 2009Advanced7 days
December 202022 September 20091 October 2009Advanced9 days
November 20201 September 200922 September 2009Advanced21 days
October 20208 July 20091 September 2009Advanced55 days
July 202012 June 20098 July 2009Advanced26 days
June 20202 June 200912 June 2009Advanced10 days
May 202025 May 20092 June 2009Advanced8 days
April 202022 May 200925 May 2009Advanced3 days
March 202019 May 200922 May 2009Advanced3 days
February 202018 May 200919 May 2009Advanced1 day
January 202015 May 200918 May 2009Advanced3 days
December 201913 May 200915 May 2009Advanced2 days
November 201912 May 200913 May 2009Advanced1 day
October 20198 May 200912 May 2009Advanced4 days
September 20192 May 20098 May 2009Advanced6 days
August 201924 April 20092 May 2009Advanced8 days
July 201919 April 200924 April 2009Advanced5 days
June 201916 April 200919 April 2009Advanced3 days
May 201912 April 200916 April 2009Advanced4 days
April 20199 April 200912 April 2009Advanced3 days
March 20196 April 20099 April 2009Advanced3 days
February 20191 April 20096 April 2009Advanced5 days
December 201826 March 20091 April 2009Advanced6 days
October 20181 January 200726 March 2009Advanced815 days
September 201815 March 20091 January 2007Retrogressed804 days
July 201826 December 200815 March 2009Advanced79 days
June 201822 December 200826 December 2008Advanced4 days
April 201815 December 200822 December 2008Advanced7 days
March 20188 December 200815 December 2008Advanced7 days
February 201822 November 20088 December 2008Advanced16 days
January 20181 November 200822 November 2008Advanced21 days
December 20178 October 20081 November 2008Advanced24 days
November 201715 September 20088 October 2008Advanced23 days
October 201722 August 200815 September 2008Advanced24 days
September 201722 July 200822 August 2008Advanced31 days
July 20171 July 200822 July 2008Advanced21 days
June 201722 June 20081 July 2008Advanced9 days
April 20171 June 200822 June 2008Advanced21 days
March 201715 April 20081 June 2008Advanced47 days
January 20171 February 200815 April 2008Advanced74 days
December 20161 November 20071 February 2008Advanced92 days
November 201615 January 20071 November 2007Advanced290 days
October 201622 February 200515 January 2007Advanced692 days
September 201615 November 200422 February 2005Advanced99 days
August 20161 November 200415 November 2004Advanced14 days
July 20161 October 20041 November 2004Advanced31 days
June 201622 November 20081 October 2004Retrogressed1,513 days
May 20168 November 200822 November 2008Advanced14 days
April 201615 October 20088 November 2008Advanced24 days
March 20161 August 200815 October 2008Advanced75 days
February 20161 February 20081 August 2008Advanced182 days
January 20161 June 20071 February 2008Advanced245 days
December 20151 August 20061 June 2007Advanced304 days
November 20151 May 20051 August 2006Advanced457 days
October 20151 January 20061 May 2005Retrogressed245 days
September 20151 October 20081 January 2006Retrogressed1,004 days
June 201515 April 20081 October 2008Advanced169 days
May 20151 September 200715 April 2008Advanced227 days
April 20151 January 20071 September 2007Advanced243 days
March 20151 September 20051 January 2007Advanced487 days
February 201515 February 20051 September 2005Advanced198 days
November 20141 May 200915 February 2005Retrogressed1,536 days
September 201422 January 20091 May 2009Advanced99 days
August 20141 September 200822 January 2009Advanced143 days
July 201415 November 20041 September 2008Advanced1,386 days
December 201315 June 200815 November 2004Retrogressed1,308 days
September 20131 January 200815 June 2008Advanced166 days
August 20131 September 20041 January 2008Advanced1,217 days
November 2012 over 2 months, from the September 2012 bulletin — no bulletin was published for October 2012Unavailable1 September 2004Became available again
June 201215 August 2007UnavailableBecame Unavailable
May 20121 May 201015 August 2007Retrogressed990 days
March 20121 January 20101 May 2010Advanced120 days
February 20121 January 20091 January 2010Advanced365 days
January 201215 March 20081 January 2009Advanced292 days
December 20111 November 200715 March 2008Advanced135 days
November 201115 July 20071 November 2007Advanced109 days
October 201115 April 200715 July 2007Advanced91 days
August 20118 March 200715 April 2007Advanced38 days
July 201115 October 20068 March 2007Advanced144 days
June 20111 July 200615 October 2006Advanced106 days
May 20118 May 20061 July 2006Advanced54 days
September 20101 March 20068 May 2006Advanced68 days
August 20101 October 20051 March 2006Advanced151 days
July 20101 February 20051 October 2005Advanced242 days
March 201022 January 20051 February 2005Advanced10 days
December 2009 over 4 months, from the August 2009 bulletin — no bulletin was published for September 2009, October 2009, November 20091 October 200322 January 2005Advanced479 days
August 20091 January 20001 October 2003Advanced1,369 days
June 200915 February 20041 January 2000Retrogressed1,506 days
April 2009 over 2 months, from the February 2009 bulletin — no bulletin was published for March 20091 January 200415 February 2004Advanced45 days
February 20091 July 20031 January 2004Advanced184 days
January 20091 June 20031 July 2003Advanced30 days
November 20081 April 20031 June 2003Advanced61 days
October 20081 August 20061 April 2003Retrogressed1,218 days
September 20081 June 20061 August 2006Advanced61 days
August 20081 April 20041 June 2006Advanced791 days
June 20081 January 20041 April 2004Advanced91 days
May 20081 December 20031 January 2004Advanced31 days
April 2008Unavailable1 December 2003Became available again
February 20081 January 2000UnavailableBecame Unavailable
January 20081 January 20021 January 2000Retrogressed731 days
December 20071 April 20041 January 2002Retrogressed821 days
September 2007Unavailable1 April 2004Became available again
August 2007CurrentUnavailableCurrent to Unavailable
July 20071 April 2004CurrentBecame Current
June 20078 January 20031 April 2004Advanced449 days
December 20061 January 20038 January 2003Advanced7 days
November 200615 June 20021 January 2003Advanced200 days
October 2006Unavailable15 June 2002Became available again
August 20061 January 2003UnavailableBecame Unavailable
May 20061 July 20021 January 2003Advanced184 days
April 20061 January 20021 July 2002Advanced181 days
March 20061 August 20011 January 2002Advanced153 days
February 20061 January 20011 August 2001Advanced212 days
January 20061 July 20001 January 2001Advanced184 days
December 20051 November 19991 July 2000Advanced243 days
October 2005Current1 November 1999Retrogressed from Current
July 2003not publishedCurrentFirst published
December 2002Currentnot publishedLeft the chart

Dates for Filing

State did not publish a Dates for Filing figure for EB-2 / India in the August 2026 bulletin — this month's source ( preference) carries only one of the two charts. This chart's published history will return once a bulletin carrying it is available again.

How to read this page

What a priority date is

A priority date is the date that fixes your place in the queue for an immigrant visa number. For most family-sponsored categories it is the date the petition was filed; for employment-based categories that require labour certification, it is the date that certification was filed. It is printed on the I-797 receipt or approval notice. Your priority date does not move — the cut-off moves toward it.

Congress caps how many immigrant visas may be issued each year, both in total per category and per country of chargeability. When more people want a category than the cap allows, a queue forms, and State publishes a cut-off date each month: the priority date it has reached. If your priority date is earlier than the cut-off, your turn has come in that chart.

Chargeability, and why some countries have their own column

Chargeability is normally your country of birth — not your citizenship or where you live. A country gets its own column in the bulletin only when demand from applicants chargeable to it exceeds the per-country limit; in the August 2026 bulletin those are China (mainland-born), India, Mexico and the Philippines. Everyone else is counted together in the column State prints as "All Chargeability Areas Except Those Listed", which is not a global average and not a worldwide figure.

The two charts are not interchangeable

Final Action Dates is when a visa can actually be issued or a green card approved. Dates for Filing is when the application may be submitted; it is usually the earlier and more optimistic of the two, and being past it does not mean a visa can be issued. Which chart U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will accept for adjustment-of-status filings is announced by USCIS each month and is not decided by State or by this site. The Dates for Filing chart was introduced in October 2015 and does not exist for any earlier bulletin.

What Current and Unavailable mean

Current (printed C) means there is no backlog at all: every priority date in the category is being acted on. Unavailable (printed U) means no visas are being issued in the category at all that month — usually because the annual limit has been reached. Neither is a date, and neither can be compared to one, so this site never plots them on a date axis and never projects from them.

Retrogression: the cut-off can move backward

A cut-off is not a promise and does not only move forward. When more people apply than the annual limit allows — often after a period of rapid advancement draws in filings — State pulls the cut-off back to an earlier date. This is called retrogression, and it can undo years of progress in a single bulletin. It has happened 359 times across the whole published record this site holds. The largest on record is F3 for Mexico in August 2006, which moved back 12.79 years in one month. Retrogressions on this page are marked on the chart with a ▼ mark and listed in the movement tables with a ↓ glyph — never by colour alone.

Frequently asked questions

What is the EB-2 priority date cut-off for India in the August 2026 Visa Bulletin?
The Final Action Dates cut-off is Unavailable. State printed that cell as "U". Unavailable means no visas are being issued in this category at all this month, so there is no cut-off date. The Dates for Filing chart is not part of this bulletin's published source this month (see Source and method, below); this page will show it again once a bulletin carrying it is available.
What is the difference between Final Action Dates and Dates for Filing for EB-2?
They answer different questions and they are not interchangeable. Final Action Dates is when a visa can actually be issued or a green card approved. Dates for Filing is when the application may be submitted — it is usually the earlier and more optimistic of the two, and being past it does not mean a visa can be issued. This month's source publishes only the Final Action Dates chart for this combination, so only that figure is shown above. Which chart U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services accepts for adjustment-of-status filings is announced by USCIS each month and is not decided by this site. The Dates for Filing chart did not exist before October 2015.
What is a priority date?
A priority date is the date that fixes your place in the queue for a visa number. For most family-sponsored and employment-based categories it is the date the petition was filed with the government (for employment categories requiring labour certification, it is the date that certification was filed). It is printed on the I-797 receipt or approval notice. The Visa Bulletin publishes a cut-off date each month for each category and country of chargeability; if your priority date is earlier than the cut-off, your turn has come in that chart. Your priority date never changes on its own — the cut-off moves toward it.
Has the EB-2 Final Action Dates cut-off for India ever moved backward?
Yes. Moving backward is called retrogression, and it happens when more people apply in a category than the annual limit allows, forcing State to pull the cut-off back to an earlier date. The Final Action Dates chart for this combination has retrogressed 21 times in the published record. The largest was in November 2014, when the cut-off moved back from 1 May 2009 to 15 February 2005 — 1,536 days, or about 4.2 years, in a single bulletin.
When will a priority date in EB-2 become current for India?
This page shows no estimate, and the reason is specific rather than a technical limitation. This category is UNAVAILABLE (U) in the newest bulletin — no visas are being issued in it at all. There is no cut-off to project from, so no wait can be estimated. Any "months to wait" figure produced for this category today would be an artefact of the arithmetic rather than information about the category, so none is shown.
Where does this EB-2 history come from, and how far back does it go?
Every figure is the one the U.S. Department of State printed in its monthly Visa Bulletin, kept alongside the exact cell text it came from. This page carries 285 Final Action Dates bulletins back to December 2001. The Dates for Filing chart is not part of this bulletin's published source this month. The Visa Bulletin is a work of the U.S. Government and is in the public domain (17 U.S.C. section 105). 5 months are absent from the public record in that span (March 2009, September 2009, October 2009, November 2009, October 2012); they are shown as a break in the chart and are never filled in from a neighbouring month.

Source and method

Every figure on this page is read from the U.S. Department of State's monthly Visa Bulletin — the August 2026 edition for the current cut-offs, and each bulletin's own edition for the history. The Visa Bulletin is a work of the U.S. Government prepared by federal employees in the course of their duties, and is therefore in the public domain under 17 U.S.C. §105. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the U.S. Department of State or any government agency.

This page carries 285 published cut-off cells and 155 recorded changes across the chart published for it this bulletin. Each cell is stored with the exact text State printed for it (the U shown above is the source's own), so every figure here is traceable back to the bulletin it came from.

5 months in the December 2001 to August 2026 span are absent from the public record — March 2009, September 2009, October 2009, November 2009, October 2012. They are recorded as gaps and shown as breaks in the charts above, never filled in from a neighbouring month.

Data version visa-bulletin-derived-v1 · 292 bulletins, December 2001 to August 2026 · Next monthly bulletin. The State Department publishes one bulletin per month, typically mid-month for the following month; past bulletins are immutable once published.

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