EB-3 India priority date: where the line is and how fast it moves

As of the October 2026 bulletin, the newest in this table, EB-3 India Final Action is Jan 1, 2014 and Date for Filing is Jan 15, 2015.

Over the last 36 bulletins, Final Action moved forward 20 times, stayed the same 16 times and moved back 0 times; the median change is +7 days.

What changed in the Oct 2026 bulletin (vs. Sep 2026): Final Action unchanged at Jan 1, 2014. Date for Filing unchanged at Jan 15, 2015. Final Action last changed in the Jul 2026 bulletin (Dec 15, 2013 to Jan 1, 2014).

Newest bulletin in this table: Oct 2026.

Each point is the cutoff printed in that month's bulletin. "Current" months are drawn at the bulletin month itself; "unavailable" months are gaps.

Your date vs. the line

Every EB-3 India cutoff in the archive

The Oct 2023 bulletin is the first of the government's fiscal year 2024. Final Action moved forward 3.3 years, from Jan 1, 2009 to May 1, 2012. Before that, the line had been pulled back (retrogressed) near the end of the fiscal year: Final Action was Jun 15, 2012 in the Jun 2023 bulletin and Jan 1, 2009 in Sep 2023. The whole October move is ground the line had already reached, still 1 month short of the Jun 2023 level, so it is a reset, not new movement of the queue.

EB-3 Other Workers India

Other Workers is the EB-3 row for jobs that need less than 2 years of training or experience. The Visa Bulletin prints it as its own row. As of the October 2026 bulletin, EB-3 Other Workers India Final Action is Jan 1, 2014 and Date for Filing is Jan 15, 2015.

In all 41 bulletins in our table (Jun 2023 to Oct 2026), EB-3 Other Workers India printed the same Final Action and Date for Filing as EB-3 India, so the EB-3 India figures above apply to it too. The one difference we have seen is the earlier copy of the October 2024 bulletin, below: it printed Jun 1, 2013 for EB-3 Other Workers India Date for Filing against Jun 8, 2013 for EB-3 India, and State's replacement changed it to Jun 8, 2013. Every EB-3 Other Workers India cutoff: pick "EB-3 Other Workers" in the Category box above, or open the EB-3 Other Workers India page.

EB-3 Other Workers India, Oct 2024: two printed versions

State replaced the October 2024 bulletin PDF at the same address with a copy that prints a different EB-3 Other Workers India Date for Filing. The web archive holds both copies, and we parsed and compared every employment cell in them: this is the cell that differs.

What it means for a priority date from Jun 1, 2013 to Jun 7, 2013: it was not before the Date for Filing cutoff in the earlier copy, and it is before it in the replacement.

The archive dates are when the Internet Archive stored each copy, not when State posted it. How we check for replaced copies: sources and method.

State's web page for the same bulletin changed the same way: the Internet Archive's copy of Sep 11, 2024 prints Jun 1, 2013, and its copy of Sep 26, 2024 prints Jun 8, 2013. Neither copy says the page was changed.

A law-firm summary of the October 2024 bulletin, in the Internet Archive's copy of Oct 13, 2024, still printed Jun 1, 2013 for this cell.

Open question: both of State's copies were archived in September 2024, before the bulletin took effect on Oct 1, 2024. Filing on its dates opens on that day, so the change may have reached readers in time. We don't know whether anyone with a priority date in that week went by the earlier date.

What the archive can't show: for 47 of the 120 bulletins from October 2016 to September 2026, the Internet Archive made no copy 7 to 60 days after its first one. For those 47 bulletins, a fix State made in the weeks after release couldn't have been seen.

Other categories

Still waiting on PERM? The PERM processing time tracker compares your filing month with DOL's current queue month and lists every 2026 update we have read.

About this data

How we count: a Current month means there is no line, so it is placed at the bulletin month itself, as in the chart. An Unavailable month has no cutoff and is skipped. A movement figure needs a cutoff at both ends of its window, so it shows n/a when this month is Current or Unavailable. In the forward/same/back counts, Current to Current and Unavailable to Unavailable count as the same; changes into or out of Current or Unavailable are left out because they have no length, and the median uses only changes between two dated cutoffs. When the bulletin right after a window starts moved the line forward 6 months or more (often the October reset after a September holdback at the end of the government's fiscal year), the figure is labelled and shown again from that next bulletin.

Parsed from the U.S. Department of State Visa Bulletin. The wait figures are arithmetic on past movement, not a forecast: cutoffs can stall or move backward. This is not legal advice. Sources and method. Download the full table: eb-cutoffs.csv.