Green Card Queue

EB-1 ROW

EB-1 ROW priority date: where the line is and how fast it moves

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-1 all other countries 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-1 ROW Final Action is Current and Date for Filing is Current.

Final Action, Oct 2026 bulletin
Currentline as of October 2026
Green card can be approved before this date
Date for Filing, Oct 2026
Currentline 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
n/a (Current this month)
Final Action moved, 36 months to Oct 2026
n/a (Current this month)

Over the last 36 bulletins, Final Action moved forward 0 times, stayed the same 36 times and moved back 0 times; there is no median, because no change was between two dated cutoffs.

What changed in the Oct 2026 bulletin (vs. Sep 2026): Final Action unchanged at Current. Date for Filing unchanged at Current. Final Action last changed in the Oct 2023 bulletin (Aug 1, 2023 to Current).

Newest bulletin in this table: Oct 2026.

EB-1 ROW 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

Enter a priority date above.

Every EB-1 ROW cutoff in the archive

The Oct 2023 bulletin is the first of the government's fiscal year 2024. Final Action went from Aug 1, 2023 to Current. Before that, the line had been pulled back (retrogressed) near the end of the fiscal year: Final Action was Current in the Jul 2023 bulletin and Aug 1, 2023 in Sep 2023. The whole October move is ground the line had already reached, so it is a reset, not new movement of the queue.

41 bulletins, newest first
BulletinFinal ActionChange vs. previous bulletinDate for Filing
Oct 2026Currentno changeCurrent
Sep 2026Currentno changeCurrent
Aug 2026Currentno changeCurrent
Jul 2026Currentno changeCurrent
Jun 2026Currentno changeCurrent
May 2026Currentno changeCurrent
Apr 2026Currentno changeCurrent
Mar 2026Currentno changeCurrent
Feb 2026Currentno changeCurrent
Jan 2026Currentno changeCurrent
Dec 2025Currentno changeCurrent
Nov 2025Currentno changeCurrent
Oct 2025Currentno changeCurrent
Sep 2025Currentno changeCurrent
Aug 2025Currentno changeCurrent
Jul 2025Currentno changeCurrent
Jun 2025Currentno changeCurrent
May 2025Currentno changeCurrent
Apr 2025Currentno changeCurrent
Mar 2025Currentno changeCurrent
Feb 2025Currentno changeCurrent
Jan 2025Currentno changeCurrent
Dec 2024Currentno changeCurrent
Nov 2024Currentno changeCurrent
Oct 2024Currentno changeCurrent
Sep 2024Currentno changeCurrent
Aug 2024Currentno changeCurrent
Jul 2024Currentno changeCurrent
Jun 2024Currentno changeCurrent
May 2024Currentno changeCurrent
Apr 2024Currentno changeCurrent
Mar 2024Currentno changeCurrent
Feb 2024Currentno changeCurrent
Jan 2024Currentno changeCurrent
Dec 2023Currentno changeCurrent
Nov 2023Currentno changeCurrent
Oct 2023CurrentAug 1, 2023 to CurrentCurrent
Sep 2023Aug 1, 2023no changeCurrent
Aug 2023Aug 1, 2023Current to Aug 1, 2023Current
Jul 2023Currentno changeCurrent
Jun 2023Current-Current

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.