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F3 — Mexico

Family-sponsored preference · Final Action Dates 1 June 2001 · Dates for Filing 15 July 2001 · July 2026 bulletin

In the July 2026 Visa Bulletin, F3 for Mexico has a Final Action Dates cut-off of 1 June 2001 and a Dates for Filing cut-off of 15 July 2001. 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 F3, 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 F3 / 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 1 June 2001. 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 1 June 2001.

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 31 days forward about 10.3 days forward
Last 6 bulletins January 2026 – July 2026 6 of 6 carried a measurable move 31 days forward about 5.2 days forward
Last 12 bulletins July 2025 – July 2026 12 of 12 carried a measurable move 120 days forward about 10 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 1981 to 1 June 2001
Final Action Dates: F3, Mexico, December 2001 – July 2026 Final Action Dates for F3, Mexico, December 2001 – July 2026. 290 of 291 published bulletins carry a dated cut-off, ranging from 1 January 1981 to 1 June 2001. Unavailable (no visas issued) in 1 months. 11 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 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 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: 8 March 1995 back to 1 May 1992 (1,041 days backward) Retrogressed July 2005: 22 April 1995 back to 1 January 1992 (1,207 days backward) Retrogressed May 2006: 1 January 1995 back to 1 January 1993 (730 days backward) Retrogressed August 2006: 15 October 1993 back to 1 January 1981 (4,670 days backward) Retrogressed March 2007: 1 January 1995 back to 1 August 1994 (153 days backward) Retrogressed April 2007: 1 August 1994 back to 8 February 1988 (2,366 days backward) Retrogressed July 2009: 22 October 1992 back to 1 July 1991 (479 days backward) Retrogressed July 2010: 22 October 1992 back to 1 March 1992 (235 days backward) Retrogressed March 2011: 22 November 1992 back to 1 November 1992 (21 days backward) Retrogressed July 2019: 22 February 1996 back to 1 July 1995 (236 days backward) Retrogressed December 2022: 15 November 1997 back to 1 November 1997 (14 days backward) U Unavailable — no visas issued: September 2002 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 (11)
  • 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 182 bulletins in which this cut-off changed, newest first. Months in which it held steady are not listed: it held in 108 of the published bulletins. Direction is shown by the ↑ / ↓ glyph and the word, never by colour alone.
Bulletin From To What changed
July 20261 May 20011 June 2001Advanced31 days
November 202515 April 20011 May 2001Advanced16 days
October 20251 February 200115 April 2001Advanced73 days
July 202515 January 20011 February 2001Advanced17 days
April 202522 November 200015 January 2001Advanced54 days
January 202522 October 200022 November 2000Advanced31 days
November 202422 August 200022 October 2000Advanced61 days
October 20241 March 200022 August 2000Advanced174 days
July 20241 December 19991 March 2000Advanced91 days
June 202422 July 19991 December 1999Advanced132 days
May 20248 September 199822 July 1999Advanced317 days
January 202422 March 19988 September 1998Advanced170 days
November 20238 March 199822 March 1998Advanced14 days
October 202315 January 19988 March 1998Advanced52 days
July 20231 November 199715 January 1998Advanced75 days
December 202215 November 19971 November 1997Retrogressed14 days
November 202215 October 199715 November 1997Advanced31 days
July 202215 September 199715 October 1997Advanced30 days
January 202215 July 199715 September 1997Advanced62 days
December 202115 May 199715 July 1997Advanced61 days
September 202122 April 199715 May 1997Advanced23 days
August 20218 March 199722 April 1997Advanced45 days
July 202115 November 19968 March 1997Advanced113 days
June 202115 October 199615 November 1996Advanced31 days
Show the earlier 158 changes — back to May 2002
The remaining 158 bulletins in which the Final Action Dates cut-off changed, newest first, back to May 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
May 20211 October 199615 October 1996Advanced14 days
April 202115 September 19961 October 1996Advanced16 days
March 20211 September 199615 September 1996Advanced14 days
February 202122 August 19961 September 1996Advanced10 days
January 20211 August 199622 August 1996Advanced21 days
September 202015 July 19961 August 1996Advanced17 days
August 20208 July 199615 July 1996Advanced7 days
July 202022 June 19968 July 1996Advanced16 days
June 20208 June 199622 June 1996Advanced14 days
May 20208 May 19968 June 1996Advanced31 days
April 20208 April 19968 May 1996Advanced30 days
March 202022 March 19968 April 1996Advanced17 days
February 20201 March 199622 March 1996Advanced21 days
January 202022 February 19961 March 1996Advanced8 days
October 20191 December 199522 February 1996Advanced83 days
August 20191 July 19951 December 1995Advanced153 days
July 201922 February 19961 July 1995Retrogressed236 days
June 201915 February 199622 February 1996Advanced7 days
May 20198 February 199615 February 1996Advanced7 days
April 201915 January 19968 February 1996Advanced24 days
March 201922 December 199515 January 1996Advanced24 days
September 20181 December 199522 December 1995Advanced21 days
July 20181 October 19951 December 1995Advanced61 days
June 20181 September 19951 October 1995Advanced30 days
May 20188 July 19951 September 1995Advanced55 days
April 201822 June 19958 July 1995Advanced16 days
February 201815 June 199522 June 1995Advanced7 days
January 201822 May 199515 June 1995Advanced24 days
December 20178 May 199522 May 1995Advanced14 days
November 201722 April 19958 May 1995Advanced16 days
October 20178 April 199522 April 1995Advanced14 days
August 201722 March 19958 April 1995Advanced17 days
July 201722 February 199522 March 1995Advanced28 days
June 201722 January 199522 February 1995Advanced31 days
May 20178 January 199522 January 1995Advanced14 days
April 201722 December 19948 January 1995Advanced17 days
March 201715 December 199422 December 1994Advanced7 days
January 20178 December 199415 December 1994Advanced7 days
December 20161 December 19948 December 1994Advanced7 days
November 201622 November 19941 December 1994Advanced9 days
October 201615 November 199422 November 1994Advanced7 days
September 201622 October 199415 November 1994Advanced24 days
June 20168 October 199422 October 1994Advanced14 days
May 20161 October 19948 October 1994Advanced7 days
April 201615 September 19941 October 1994Advanced16 days
March 20168 September 199415 September 1994Advanced7 days
February 20161 August 19948 September 1994Advanced38 days
January 20168 July 19941 August 1994Advanced24 days
December 201515 June 19948 July 1994Advanced23 days
November 20158 June 199415 June 1994Advanced7 days
October 201522 May 19948 June 1994Advanced17 days
September 201522 April 199422 May 1994Advanced30 days
July 201515 April 199422 April 1994Advanced7 days
May 20151 April 199415 April 1994Advanced14 days
April 201522 February 19941 April 1994Advanced38 days
March 201515 January 199422 February 1994Advanced38 days
February 201515 December 199315 January 1994Advanced31 days
January 201515 November 199315 December 1993Advanced30 days
December 20141 November 199315 November 1993Advanced14 days
November 201422 October 19931 November 1993Advanced10 days
October 201415 October 199322 October 1993Advanced7 days
September 201415 September 199315 October 1993Advanced30 days
August 20148 August 199315 September 1993Advanced38 days
July 201422 July 19938 August 1993Advanced17 days
June 20141 July 199322 July 1993Advanced21 days
May 201422 June 19931 July 1993Advanced9 days
April 20148 June 199322 June 1993Advanced14 days
March 20141 June 19938 June 1993Advanced7 days
November 201322 May 19931 June 1993Advanced10 days
October 201315 May 199322 May 1993Advanced7 days
September 20131 May 199315 May 1993Advanced14 days
August 201322 April 19931 May 1993Advanced9 days
July 20138 April 199322 April 1993Advanced14 days
June 20131 April 19938 April 1993Advanced7 days
May 201322 March 19931 April 1993Advanced10 days
April 201315 March 199322 March 1993Advanced7 days
March 20138 March 199315 March 1993Advanced7 days
January 20131 March 19938 March 1993Advanced7 days
December 201215 February 19931 March 1993Advanced14 days
November 2012 over 2 months, from the September 2012 bulletin — no bulletin was published for October 201222 January 199315 February 1993Advanced24 days
July 201215 January 199322 January 1993Advanced7 days
April 20128 January 199315 January 1993Advanced7 days
March 20121 January 19938 January 1993Advanced7 days
February 201222 December 19921 January 1993Advanced10 days
January 201215 December 199222 December 1992Advanced7 days
December 20118 December 199215 December 1992Advanced7 days
November 20111 December 19928 December 1992Advanced7 days
October 201122 November 19921 December 1992Advanced9 days
September 201115 November 199222 November 1992Advanced7 days
May 20118 November 199215 November 1992Advanced7 days
April 20111 November 19928 November 1992Advanced7 days
March 201122 November 19921 November 1992Retrogressed21 days
February 201122 October 199222 November 1992Advanced31 days
October 20101 March 199222 October 1992Advanced235 days
July 201022 October 19921 March 1992Retrogressed235 days
May 201015 October 199222 October 1992Advanced7 days
April 20108 October 199215 October 1992Advanced7 days
March 201022 September 19928 October 1992Advanced16 days
February 201015 September 199222 September 1992Advanced7 days
January 201022 August 199215 September 1992Advanced24 days
December 2009 over 4 months, from the August 2009 bulletin — no bulletin was published for September 2009, October 2009, November 20091 July 199122 August 1992Advanced418 days
July 200922 October 19921 July 1991Retrogressed479 days
April 2009 over 2 months, from the February 2009 bulletin — no bulletin was published for March 20098 October 199222 October 1992Advanced14 days
February 20091 October 19928 October 1992Advanced7 days
December 200815 September 19921 October 1992Advanced16 days
September 20088 September 199215 September 1992Advanced7 days
August 20088 August 19928 September 1992Advanced31 days
July 20081 August 19928 August 1992Advanced7 days
June 200822 July 19921 August 1992Advanced10 days
April 200815 July 199222 July 1992Advanced7 days
March 20088 July 199215 July 1992Advanced7 days
December 20078 June 19928 July 1992Advanced30 days
November 20071 May 19928 June 1992Advanced38 days
October 20078 February 19881 May 1992Advanced1,544 days
April 20071 August 19948 February 1988Retrogressed2,366 days
March 20071 January 19951 August 1994Retrogressed153 days
November 20061 January 19941 January 1995Advanced365 days
October 200615 June 19881 January 1994Advanced2,026 days
September 20061 January 198115 June 1988Advanced2,722 days
August 200615 October 19931 January 1981Retrogressed4,670 days
July 20061 March 199315 October 1993Advanced228 days
June 20061 January 19931 March 1993Advanced59 days
May 20061 January 19951 January 1993Retrogressed730 days
February 20068 October 19941 January 1995Advanced85 days
January 20061 September 19948 October 1994Advanced37 days
December 20058 April 19941 September 1994Advanced146 days
November 20051 January 19938 April 1994Advanced462 days
October 20051 January 19921 January 1993Advanced366 days
July 200522 April 19951 January 1992Retrogressed1,207 days
May 20058 April 199522 April 1995Advanced14 days
March 200522 March 19958 April 1995Advanced17 days
February 200522 January 199522 March 1995Advanced59 days
January 20051 July 199422 January 1995Advanced205 days
December 20041 June 19931 July 1994Advanced395 days
November 200415 October 19921 June 1993Advanced229 days
October 20041 May 199215 October 1992Advanced167 days
August 20048 March 19951 May 1992Retrogressed1,041 days
June 20041 March 19958 March 1995Advanced7 days
April 200422 January 19951 March 1995Advanced38 days
March 20048 January 199522 January 1995Advanced14 days
February 200422 November 19948 January 1995Advanced47 days
January 200415 November 199422 November 1994Advanced7 days
November 20038 October 199415 November 1994Advanced38 days
October 20031 September 19948 October 1994Advanced37 days
September 200322 May 19941 September 1994Advanced102 days
August 20038 March 199422 May 1994Advanced75 days
July 200315 November 19938 March 1994Advanced113 days
June 20031 July 199315 November 1993Advanced137 days
May 200322 April 19931 July 1993Advanced70 days
April 200322 March 199322 April 1993Advanced31 days
March 200315 February 199322 March 1993Advanced35 days
February 20038 January 199315 February 1993Advanced38 days
January 20031 November 19928 January 1993Advanced68 days
December 200215 August 19921 November 1992Advanced78 days
November 200215 July 199215 August 1992Advanced31 days
October 2002Unavailable15 July 1992Became available again
September 200215 July 1992UnavailableBecame Unavailable
May 20021 July 199215 July 1992Advanced14 days

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 July 2001. 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 July 2001.

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 14 days forward about 4.7 days forward
Last 6 bulletins January 2026 – July 2026 6 of 6 carried a measurable move 14 days forward about 2.3 days forward
Last 12 bulletins July 2025 – July 2026 12 of 12 carried a measurable move 30 days forward about 2.5 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 May 1995 to 15 July 2001
Dates for Filing: F3, Mexico, October 2015 – July 2026 Dates for Filing for F3, Mexico, October 2015 – July 2026. 130 of 130 published bulletins carry a dated cut-off, ranging from 1 May 1995 to 15 July 2001. C 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 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 — every one of the 24 bulletins in which this cut-off changed, newest first. Months in which it held steady are not listed: it held in 106 of the published bulletins. Direction is shown by the ↑ / ↓ glyph and the word, never by colour alone.
Bulletin From To What changed
May 20261 July 200115 July 2001Advanced14 days
November 202515 June 20011 July 2001Advanced16 days
November 202215 April 200115 June 2001Advanced61 days
July 20221 March 200115 April 2001Advanced45 days
March 20228 October 20001 March 2001Advanced144 days
January 20228 September 20008 October 2000Advanced30 days
February 202115 August 20008 September 2000Advanced24 days
September 20201 August 200015 August 2000Advanced14 days
August 202015 July 20001 August 2000Advanced17 days
August 20198 July 200015 July 2000Advanced7 days
July 20191 July 20008 July 2000Advanced7 days
June 201922 June 20001 July 2000Advanced9 days
May 201915 June 200022 June 2000Advanced7 days
April 20198 June 200015 June 2000Advanced7 days
February 20191 May 20008 June 2000Advanced38 days
January 20198 October 19991 May 2000Advanced206 days
December 201822 December 19988 October 1999Advanced290 days
October 20188 October 199822 December 1998Advanced75 days
July 201822 September 19988 October 1998Advanced16 days
May 201815 December 199722 September 1998Advanced281 days
April 20181 April 199715 December 1997Advanced258 days
March 20181 October 19951 April 1997Advanced548 days
October 20171 May 19951 October 1995Advanced153 days
October 2015not published1 May 1995First 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 F3 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 F3 priority date cut-off for Mexico in the July 2026 Visa Bulletin?
The Final Action Dates cut-off is 1 June 2001 and the Dates for Filing cut-off is 15 July 2001. State printed those cells as "01JUN01" and "15JUL01". A priority date earlier than 1 June 2001 has been reached in the Final Action chart.
What is the difference between Final Action Dates and Dates for Filing for F3?
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 F3 and Mexico in the July 2026 bulletin they read 1 June 2001 and 15 July 2001 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 F3 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 12 times in the published record — 12 in the Final Action Dates chart and 0 in the Dates for Filing chart. The largest was in August 2006, when the Final Action cut-off moved back from 15 October 1993 to 1 January 1981 — 4,670 days, or about 12.8 years, in a single bulletin.
When will a priority date in F3 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 10 days per bulletin. The tool on this page projects the published cut-off of 1 June 2001 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 F3 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 F3 / Mexico and 206 recorded changes across both charts. Each cell is stored with the exact text State printed for it (the 01JUN01 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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