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

EB-3 Other Workers, India: State reprinted the October 2024 bulletin with a different Date for Filing, Jun 1, 2013 in the earlier copy and Jun 8, 2013 in the replacement. Below: both copies, and the Final Action and Filing cutoffs in every bulletin from June 2023 to October 2026.

Built from the October 2026 Visa Bulletin, the newest one we have checked. State's site refuses our fetcher, so the October 2026 figures are read from the copy of State's PDF that AILA posted (AILA Doc. No. 26092902, posted 2026-09-29), not from State's own file. Current bulletin: travel.state.gov.

Every EB-3 Other Workers India cutoff in the Visa Bulletin archive, month by month. Enter your priority date to see how far it is from the Final Action cutoff and what past movement would imply. All categories.

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

Final Action, Oct 2026 bulletin
Jan 1, 2014line as of October 2026
Green card can be approved before this date
Date for Filing, Oct 2026
Jan 15, 2015line as of October 2026
I-485 can be filed before this date, if USCIS allows the chart
Final Action moved, 12 months to Oct 2026
+4 months
of priority dates in 12 bulletins
Final Action moved, 36 months to Oct 2026
+20 months
of priority dates in 36 bulletins

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.

EB-3 Other Workers India cutoff date by bulletin month

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

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Every EB-3 Other Workers 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.

41 bulletins, newest first
BulletinFinal ActionChange vs. previous bulletinDate for Filing
Oct 2026Jan 1, 2014no changeJan 15, 2015
Sep 2026Jan 1, 2014no changeJan 15, 2015
Aug 2026Jan 1, 2014no changeJan 15, 2015
Jul 2026Jan 1, 2014+17 daysJan 15, 2015
Jun 2026Dec 15, 2013+30 daysJan 15, 2015
May 2026Nov 15, 2013no changeJan 15, 2015
Apr 2026Nov 15, 2013no changeJan 15, 2015
Mar 2026Nov 15, 2013no changeAug 15, 2014
Feb 2026Nov 15, 2013no changeAug 15, 2014
Jan 2026Nov 15, 2013+2 monthsAug 15, 2014
Dec 2025Sep 22, 2013+31 daysAug 15, 2014
Nov 2025Aug 22, 2013no changeAug 15, 2014
Oct 2025Aug 22, 2013+3 monthsAug 15, 2014
Sep 2025May 22, 2013no changeJun 8, 2013
Aug 2025May 22, 2013+30 daysJun 8, 2013
Jul 2025Apr 22, 2013+7 daysJun 8, 2013
Jun 2025Apr 15, 2013no changeJun 8, 2013
May 2025Apr 15, 2013+14 daysJun 8, 2013
Apr 2025Apr 1, 2013+2 monthsJun 8, 2013
Mar 2025Feb 1, 2013+2 monthsJun 8, 2013
Feb 2025Dec 15, 2012+14 daysJun 8, 2013
Jan 2025Dec 1, 2012+23 daysJun 8, 2013
Dec 2024Nov 8, 2012+7 daysJun 8, 2013
Nov 2024Nov 1, 2012no changeJun 8, 2013
Oct 2024Nov 1, 2012+10 daysJun 8, 2013
Sep 2024Oct 22, 2012no changeNov 1, 2012
Aug 2024Oct 22, 2012+30 daysNov 1, 2012
Jul 2024Sep 22, 2012+31 daysOct 1, 2012
Jun 2024Aug 22, 2012+7 daysSep 15, 2012
May 2024Aug 15, 2012no changeSep 15, 2012
Apr 2024Aug 15, 2012+1 monthSep 15, 2012
Mar 2024Jul 1, 2012no changeAug 1, 2012
Feb 2024Jul 1, 2012+30 daysAug 1, 2012
Jan 2024Jun 1, 2012+31 daysAug 1, 2012
Dec 2023May 1, 2012no changeAug 1, 2012
Nov 2023May 1, 2012no changeAug 1, 2012
Oct 2023May 1, 2012+3.3 yearsAug 1, 2012
Sep 2023Jan 1, 2009no changeAug 1, 2012
Aug 2023Jan 1, 2009no changeAug 1, 2012
Jul 2023Jan 1, 2009back 3.5 yearsAug 1, 2012
Jun 2023Jun 15, 2012-Aug 1, 2012

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.

Oct 2024 bulletinArchived onFinal ActionDate for Filing
Earlier copySep 11, 2024Nov 1, 2012Jun 1, 2013
Replacement (used in the table above)Sep 25, 2024Nov 1, 2012Jun 8, 2013

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.

In all 41 bulletins in the table above, this line printed the same Final Action and Date for Filing as EB-3 India. It is also part of the EB-3 India tracker.

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.