DOS: July 2024 Visa Bulletin Released: EB-1 India and China Progress; EB-3 Professionals Retrogress By Nearly a Year
July 05, 2024
- On June 11, 2024, the Department of State (DOS) released its Visa Bulletin for July 2024. USCIS has announced that it will accept employment-based adjustment of status applications based on the Visa Bulletin Final Action Dates Chart in July.
- EB-1: India advances by eleven months to February 1, 2022, and China advances by two months to November 1, 2022. All other EB-1 areas of chargeability remain current.
- EB-2: limited progression: India advances two months to June 15, 2012; China advances one month to March 1, 2020; and all other areas of chargeability advance two months to March 15, 2023.
- EB-3: Professional and Skilled Workers for all areas of chargeability except India and China will retrogress eleven months and three weeks to December 1, 2021. EB-3 India advances one month to September 22, 2012, and EB-3 China remains on December 1, 2021.
- EB-4: All countries currently on January 1, 2021.
- EB-5: All countries are current for Unreserved, Rural Set Aside, High Unemployment Set Aside, and Infrastructure Set Aside Except EB-5 Unreserved India (December 1, 2020) and EB-5 Unreserved China (15 December 2015).
