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F2B — Mexico

Family-sponsored preference · Final Action Dates 15 February 2009 · Dates for Filing 15 May 2010 · July 2026 bulletin

In the July 2026 Visa Bulletin, F2B for Mexico has a Final Action Dates cut-off of 15 February 2009 and a Dates for Filing cut-off of 15 May 2010. The Final Action cut-off has been advancing, so the page shows its measured pace and what that pace would imply for a given priority date — as an estimate, never a prediction. This page carries the full published history State printed for this combination: 291 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 July 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 July 2026 cut-offs

State publishes two charts for F2B, and they are not interchangeable. Both are shown here as printed. Mexico 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 F2B / Mexico in 291 bulletins since December 2001.

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

The cut-off to compare against The Final Action Dates cut-off in the July 2026 bulletin is 15 February 2009. A priority date earlier than that has been reached.

The date your petition was filed — it is printed on your I-797 receipt notice. Nothing is sent anywhere: this runs entirely in your browser.

Enter a priority date to compare it against the July 2026 cut-off of 15 February 2009.

Any estimate here is an estimate Estimate only. It projects the cut-off forward at its average pace over the trailing published bulletins and assumes that pace holds. It is not a prediction and not a guarantee: cut-off dates routinely stall, and they can move BACKWARD (retrogress) without warning. Not legal advice.

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 April 2026 – July 2026 3 of 3 carried a measurable move 0 days about 0 days
Last 6 bulletins January 2026 – July 2026 6 of 6 carried a measurable move 92 days forward about 15.3 days forward
Last 12 bulletins July 2025 – July 2026 12 of 12 carried a measurable move 776 days forward about 64.7 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 – July 2026 · 291 published bulletins · cut-offs from 1 January 1991 to 15 February 2009
Final Action Dates: F2B, Mexico, December 2001 – July 2026 Final Action Dates for F2B, Mexico, December 2001 – July 2026. 285 of 291 published bulletins carry a dated cut-off, ranging from 1 January 1991 to 15 February 2009. Unavailable (no visas issued) in 6 months. 6 retrogressions (the cut-off moving backward) are marked. 3 breaks in the line where months are missing; the line is never drawn across them. C 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 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 August 2004: 15 February 1992 back to 1 December 1991 (76 days backward) Retrogressed September 2004: 1 December 1991 back to 1 September 1991 (91 days backward) Retrogressed July 2005: 15 March 1992 back to 1 January 1991 (439 days backward) Retrogressed May 2006: 15 February 1992 back to 1 September 1991 (167 days backward) Retrogressed June 2012: 1 December 1992 back to 1 January 1992 (335 days backward) Retrogressed February 2014: 1 April 1994 back to 1 May 1993 (335 days backward) U Unavailable — no visas issued: April 2002 to September 2002 (6 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 (6)
  • U — Unavailable: no visas issued. Not a date either
  • No bulletin in the public record — the line stops rather than crossing it
Final Action Dates — the 24 most recent of 163 bulletins in which this cut-off changed, newest first. Months in which it held steady are not listed: it held in 127 of the published bulletins. Direction is shown by the ↑ / ↓ glyph and the word, never by colour alone.
Bulletin From To What changed
February 202615 November 200815 February 2009Advanced92 days
January 202615 May 200815 November 2008Advanced184 days
December 202515 December 200715 May 2008Advanced152 days
October 20251 April 200715 December 2007Advanced258 days
September 20251 January 20071 April 2007Advanced90 days
July 20251 January 20061 January 2007Advanced365 days
April 20251 July 20051 January 2006Advanced184 days
November 202415 January 20051 July 2005Advanced167 days
October 202415 July 200415 January 2005Advanced184 days
August 20248 July 200415 July 2004Advanced7 days
June 20241 March 20048 July 2004Advanced129 days
May 202422 October 20031 March 2004Advanced131 days
January 20241 May 200222 October 2003Advanced539 days
November 20231 January 20021 May 2002Advanced120 days
October 20231 August 20011 January 2002Advanced153 days
July 20231 June 20011 August 2001Advanced61 days
November 20221 April 20011 June 2001Advanced61 days
July 20221 February 20011 April 2001Advanced59 days
June 20221 January 20011 February 2001Advanced31 days
April 20221 September 20001 January 2001Advanced122 days
January 20221 July 20001 September 2000Advanced62 days
December 202115 March 20001 July 2000Advanced108 days
September 20211 March 200015 March 2000Advanced14 days
August 20211 February 20001 March 2000Advanced29 days
Show the earlier 139 changes — back to April 2002
The remaining 139 bulletins in which the Final Action Dates cut-off changed, newest first, back to April 2002. 2 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
July 20218 September 19991 February 2000Advanced146 days
June 202115 August 19998 September 1999Advanced24 days
May 202122 July 199915 August 1999Advanced24 days
April 202115 July 199922 July 1999Advanced7 days
March 20211 June 199915 July 1999Advanced44 days
February 20211 May 19991 June 1999Advanced31 days
January 20218 April 19991 May 1999Advanced23 days
September 202022 March 19998 April 1999Advanced17 days
August 20208 March 199922 March 1999Advanced14 days
July 202015 February 19998 March 1999Advanced21 days
June 202015 January 199915 February 1999Advanced31 days
May 20201 December 199815 January 1999Advanced45 days
April 202015 October 19981 December 1998Advanced47 days
March 202015 September 199815 October 1998Advanced30 days
February 202022 August 199815 September 1998Advanced24 days
November 20191 August 199822 August 1998Advanced21 days
October 20191 July 19981 August 1998Advanced31 days
September 20191 June 19981 July 1998Advanced30 days
August 201915 April 19981 June 1998Advanced47 days
July 201915 March 199815 April 1998Advanced31 days
June 201915 February 199815 March 1998Advanced28 days
May 20191 December 199715 February 1998Advanced76 days
April 201922 September 19971 December 1997Advanced70 days
March 201922 July 199722 September 1997Advanced62 days
February 20198 June 199722 July 1997Advanced44 days
November 201815 May 19978 June 1997Advanced24 days
October 201822 April 199715 May 1997Advanced23 days
September 20181 April 199722 April 1997Advanced21 days
August 20188 March 19971 April 1997Advanced24 days
July 201815 February 19978 March 1997Advanced21 days
June 20181 December 199615 February 1997Advanced76 days
May 20181 November 19961 December 1996Advanced30 days
April 201815 October 19961 November 1996Advanced17 days
March 20188 September 199615 October 1996Advanced37 days
February 201815 August 19968 September 1996Advanced24 days
January 201822 July 199615 August 1996Advanced24 days
November 201715 July 199622 July 1996Advanced7 days
October 20171 July 199615 July 1996Advanced14 days
August 20171 June 19961 July 1996Advanced30 days
July 20178 April 19961 June 1996Advanced54 days
June 20171 February 19968 April 1996Advanced67 days
May 201722 December 19951 February 1996Advanced41 days
April 201722 November 199522 December 1995Advanced30 days
March 20178 November 199522 November 1995Advanced14 days
February 201715 October 19958 November 1995Advanced24 days
December 20168 October 199515 October 1995Advanced7 days
November 20161 October 19958 October 1995Advanced7 days
October 201615 September 19951 October 1995Advanced16 days
September 20168 September 199515 September 1995Advanced7 days
December 201522 August 19958 September 1995Advanced17 days
November 20151 August 199522 August 1995Advanced21 days
October 201515 July 19951 August 1995Advanced17 days
September 20158 April 199515 July 1995Advanced98 days
June 20151 April 19958 April 1995Advanced7 days
May 20151 February 19951 April 1995Advanced59 days
April 20151 January 19951 February 1995Advanced31 days
March 201515 December 19941 January 1995Advanced17 days
February 20151 November 199415 December 1994Advanced44 days
January 20151 October 19941 November 1994Advanced31 days
December 20148 September 19941 October 1994Advanced23 days
November 20141 August 19948 September 1994Advanced38 days
October 201415 May 19941 August 1994Advanced78 days
September 20141 April 199415 May 1994Advanced44 days
August 201422 November 19931 April 1994Advanced130 days
July 20141 August 199322 November 1993Advanced113 days
June 201415 May 19931 August 1993Advanced78 days
May 20141 May 199315 May 1993Advanced14 days
February 20141 April 19941 May 1993Retrogressed335 days
November 20138 March 19941 April 1994Advanced24 days
October 201322 February 19948 March 1994Advanced14 days
September 20131 February 199422 February 1994Advanced21 days
August 20131 November 19931 February 1994Advanced92 days
July 201315 June 19931 November 1993Advanced139 days
June 20131 May 199315 June 1993Advanced45 days
May 201322 February 19931 May 1993Advanced68 days
April 201315 January 199322 February 1993Advanced38 days
March 201315 December 199215 January 1993Advanced31 days
February 201322 November 199215 December 1992Advanced23 days
January 20131 November 199222 November 1992Advanced21 days
December 201215 October 19921 November 1992Advanced17 days
November 2012 over 2 months, from the September 2012 bulletin — no bulletin was published for October 201222 August 199215 October 1992Advanced54 days
August 20121 January 199222 August 1992Advanced234 days
June 20121 December 19921 January 1992Retrogressed335 days
January 201222 November 19921 December 1992Advanced9 days
October 20111 November 199222 November 1992Advanced21 days
September 20111 October 19921 November 1992Advanced31 days
August 201122 September 19921 October 1992Advanced9 days
July 201122 August 199222 September 1992Advanced31 days
June 20111 August 199222 August 1992Advanced21 days
May 201115 July 19921 August 1992Advanced17 days
March 20111 July 199215 July 1992Advanced14 days
February 201122 June 19921 July 1992Advanced9 days
October 201015 June 199222 June 1992Advanced7 days
March 20108 June 199215 June 1992Advanced7 days
January 20101 June 19928 June 1992Advanced7 days
December 2009 over 4 months, from the August 2009 bulletin — no bulletin was published for September 2009, October 2009, November 20098 May 19921 June 1992Advanced24 days
August 20091 May 19928 May 1992Advanced7 days
December 200822 April 19921 May 1992Advanced9 days
September 200815 April 199222 April 1992Advanced7 days
August 20088 April 199215 April 1992Advanced7 days
June 20081 April 19928 April 1992Advanced7 days
March 200822 March 19921 April 1992Advanced10 days
January 200815 March 199222 March 1992Advanced7 days
October 20078 March 199215 March 1992Advanced7 days
June 20071 March 19928 March 1992Advanced7 days
December 200622 February 19921 March 1992Advanced8 days
November 200615 February 199222 February 1992Advanced7 days
October 20061 December 199115 February 1992Advanced76 days
July 200622 October 19911 December 1991Advanced40 days
June 20061 September 199122 October 1991Advanced51 days
May 200615 February 19921 September 1991Retrogressed167 days
February 20068 February 199215 February 1992Advanced7 days
January 20061 February 19928 February 1992Advanced7 days
December 200515 January 19921 February 1992Advanced17 days
November 20051 December 199115 January 1992Advanced45 days
October 20051 January 19911 December 1991Advanced334 days
July 200515 March 19921 January 1991Retrogressed439 days
March 200522 February 199215 March 1992Advanced22 days
February 200515 February 199222 February 1992Advanced7 days
January 20051 January 199215 February 1992Advanced45 days
December 20048 December 19911 January 1992Advanced24 days
November 200422 November 19918 December 1991Advanced16 days
October 20041 September 199122 November 1991Advanced82 days
September 20041 December 19911 September 1991Retrogressed91 days
August 200415 February 19921 December 1991Retrogressed76 days
July 200415 January 199215 February 1992Advanced31 days
June 20041 January 199215 January 1992Advanced14 days
May 200422 December 19911 January 1992Advanced10 days
April 200415 December 199122 December 1991Advanced7 days
March 20048 December 199115 December 1991Advanced7 days
January 20041 December 19918 December 1991Advanced7 days
October 200326 November 19911 December 1991Advanced5 days
September 200322 November 199126 November 1991Advanced4 days
August 200315 November 199122 November 1991Advanced7 days
May 20038 November 199115 November 1991Advanced7 days
March 20031 November 19918 November 1991Advanced7 days
December 200222 October 19911 November 1991Advanced10 days
October 2002Unavailable22 October 1991Became available again
April 200222 October 1991UnavailableBecame Unavailable

Dates for Filing

The chart that decides when an application may be submitted — usually the more optimistic of the two. It did not exist before October 2015, so its history is shorter by design, not by omission: 130 bulletins since October 2015.

Dates for Filing: when would a priority date be reached?

The cut-off to compare against The Dates for Filing cut-off in the July 2026 bulletin is 15 May 2010. A priority date earlier than that has been reached.

The date your petition was filed — it is printed on your I-797 receipt notice. Nothing is sent anywhere: this runs entirely in your browser.

Enter a priority date to compare it against the July 2026 cut-off of 15 May 2010.

Any estimate here is an estimate Estimate only. It projects the cut-off forward at its average pace over the trailing published bulletins and assumes that pace holds. It is not a prediction and not a guarantee: cut-off dates routinely stall, and they can move BACKWARD (retrogress) without warning. Not legal advice.

How fast has this cut-off actually moved?
Measured movement of the Dates for Filing 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 April 2026 – July 2026 3 of 3 carried a measurable move 0 days about 0 days
Last 6 bulletins January 2026 – July 2026 6 of 6 carried a measurable move 181 days forward about 30.2 days forward
Last 12 bulletins July 2025 – July 2026 12 of 12 carried a measurable move 774 days forward about 64.5 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.

Dates for Filing — the full published history October 2015 – July 2026 · 130 published bulletins · cut-offs from 1 January 1996 to 15 May 2010
Dates for Filing: F2B, Mexico, October 2015 – July 2026 Dates for Filing for F2B, Mexico, October 2015 – July 2026. 130 of 130 published bulletins carry a dated cut-off, ranging from 1 January 1996 to 15 May 2010. C 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 U 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026

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

  • Published cut-off date
Dates for Filing — the 24 most recent of 56 bulletins in which this cut-off changed, newest first. Months in which it held steady are not listed: it held in 74 of the published bulletins. Direction is shown by the ↑ / ↓ glyph and the word, never by colour alone.
Bulletin From To What changed
April 202615 February 201015 May 2010Advanced89 days
February 202615 November 200915 February 2010Advanced92 days
January 202615 May 200915 November 2009Advanced184 days
November 202515 December 200815 May 2009Advanced151 days
October 20251 April 200815 December 2008Advanced258 days
July 20251 April 20071 April 2008Advanced366 days
April 20251 October 20061 April 2007Advanced182 days
January 20251 July 20061 October 2006Advanced92 days
November 20241 August 20051 July 2006Advanced334 days
October 20241 May 20051 August 2005Advanced92 days
July 20241 November 20041 May 2005Advanced181 days
June 20241 September 20041 November 2004Advanced61 days
May 20241 August 20041 September 2004Advanced31 days
August 20231 April 20021 August 2004Advanced853 days
July 20231 January 20021 April 2002Advanced90 days
November 20228 August 20011 January 2002Advanced146 days
July 20221 May 20018 August 2001Advanced99 days
May 202222 April 20011 May 2001Advanced9 days
April 20221 April 200122 April 2001Advanced21 days
March 20221 March 20011 April 2001Advanced31 days
January 20221 January 20011 March 2001Advanced59 days
December 20211 October 20001 January 2001Advanced92 days
September 20218 August 20001 October 2000Advanced54 days
May 20218 July 20008 August 2000Advanced31 days
Show the earlier 32 changes — back to October 2015
The remaining 32 bulletins in which the Dates for Filing cut-off changed, newest first, back to October 2015.
Bulletin From To What changed
April 202122 December 19998 July 2000Advanced199 days
February 20211 December 199922 December 1999Advanced21 days
September 20208 November 19991 December 1999Advanced23 days
August 202015 October 19998 November 1999Advanced24 days
July 202022 September 199915 October 1999Advanced23 days
June 20208 September 199922 September 1999Advanced14 days
May 20201 August 19998 September 1999Advanced38 days
April 202022 June 19991 August 1999Advanced40 days
March 202015 May 199922 June 1999Advanced38 days
February 202022 April 199915 May 1999Advanced23 days
November 20191 April 199922 April 1999Advanced21 days
October 20191 March 19991 April 1999Advanced31 days
September 20191 February 19991 March 1999Advanced28 days
August 201922 December 19981 February 1999Advanced41 days
July 201915 December 199822 December 1998Advanced7 days
June 20191 October 199815 December 1998Advanced75 days
May 20191 July 19981 October 1998Advanced92 days
April 20198 February 19981 July 1998Advanced143 days
March 20198 October 19978 February 1998Advanced123 days
February 20198 September 19978 October 1997Advanced30 days
January 20191 August 19978 September 1997Advanced38 days
December 201822 June 19971 August 1997Advanced40 days
October 20188 June 199722 June 1997Advanced14 days
July 201822 May 19978 June 1997Advanced17 days
May 20181 January 199722 May 1997Advanced141 days
October 20178 August 19961 January 1997Advanced146 days
May 20171 June 19968 August 1996Advanced68 days
October 201622 May 19961 June 1996Advanced10 days
August 201615 May 199622 May 1996Advanced7 days
June 20161 April 199615 May 1996Advanced44 days
November 20151 January 19961 April 1996Advanced91 days
October 2015not published1 January 1996First published

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.

Why Mexico has its own column

Chargeability is normally your country of birth — not your citizenship or where you live. State gives Mexico its own column because demand from applicants chargeable there exceeds the per-country limit, so its queue is tracked separately and its cut-offs are usually further behind than the "all other countries" column. Applicants from countries without their own column are all counted together in that column instead.

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.

Where F2B sits among the family preferences

Family-sponsored preference categories run F1 through F4, and they are separate queues with separate annual limits: F1 (unmarried adult sons and daughters of U.S. citizens), F2A (spouses and minor children of lawful permanent residents), F2B (unmarried adult sons and daughters of permanent residents), F3 (married sons and daughters of U.S. citizens) and F4 (brothers and sisters of adult U.S. citizens). Immediate relatives of U.S. citizens — spouses, minor children and parents — are not subject to these limits and do not appear in the Visa Bulletin at all.

Frequently asked questions

What is the F2B priority date cut-off for Mexico in the July 2026 Visa Bulletin?
The Final Action Dates cut-off is 15 February 2009 and the Dates for Filing cut-off is 15 May 2010. State printed those cells as "15FEB09" and "15MAY10". A priority date earlier than 15 February 2009 has been reached in the Final Action chart.
What is the difference between Final Action Dates and Dates for Filing for F2B?
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. For F2B and Mexico in the July 2026 bulletin they read 15 February 2009 and 15 May 2010 respectively. 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 F2B cut-off for Mexico 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. This combination has retrogressed 7 times in the published record — 7 in the Final Action Dates chart and 0 in the Dates for Filing chart. The largest was in July 2005, when the Final Action cut-off moved back from 15 March 1992 to 1 January 1991 — 439 days, or about 1.2 years, in a single bulletin.
When will a priority date in F2B become current for Mexico?
Nobody can tell you that, and this site does not claim to. What can be measured is the pace: over the trailing published bulletins the Final Action Dates cut-off has advanced by an average of about 64.7 days per bulletin. The tool on this page projects the published cut-off of 15 February 2009 forward at that pace to estimate which bulletin would reach a given priority date. That is an estimate and assumes the pace holds. It is not a prediction and not a guarantee: cut-off dates routinely stall, and they can move backward without warning. This is not legal advice.
Where does this F2B 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 291 Final Action Dates bulletins back to December 2001 and 130 Dates for Filing bulletins back to October 2015. 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 July 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 421 published cut-off cells for F2B / Mexico and 219 recorded changes across both charts. Each cell is stored with the exact text State printed for it (the 15FEB09 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 July 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 · 291 bulletins, December 2001 to July 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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