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EB-3 Philippines 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-3 the Philippines 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 Philippines Final Action is Aug 15, 2023 and Date for Filing is Jan 1, 2024.

Final Action, Oct 2026 bulletin
Aug 15, 2023line as of October 2026
Green card can be approved before this date
Date for Filing, Oct 2026
Jan 1, 2024line 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 14 times, stayed the same 20 times and moved back 2 times; the median change is no change.

What changed in the Oct 2026 bulletin (vs. Sep 2026): Final Action moved forward 14 days, from Aug 1, 2023 to Aug 15, 2023. Date for Filing unchanged at Jan 1, 2024.

Newest bulletin in this table: Oct 2026.

EB-3 Philippines 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 Philippines cutoff in the archive

The Oct 2023 bulletin is the first of the government's fiscal year 2024. Final Action moved forward 19 months, from May 1, 2020 to Dec 1, 2021. Before that, the line had been pulled back (retrogressed) near the end of the fiscal year: Final Action was Jun 1, 2022 in the Jun 2023 bulletin and May 1, 2020 in Sep 2023. The whole October move is ground the line had already reached, still 6 months 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 2026Aug 15, 2023+14 daysJan 1, 2024
Sep 2026Aug 1, 2023no changeJan 1, 2024
Aug 2026Aug 1, 2023no changeJan 1, 2024
Jul 2026Aug 1, 2023no changeJan 1, 2024
Jun 2026Aug 1, 2023no changeJan 1, 2024
May 2026Aug 1, 2023no changeJan 1, 2024
Apr 2026Aug 1, 2023no changeJan 1, 2024
Mar 2026Aug 1, 2023+2 monthsJan 1, 2024
Feb 2026Jun 1, 2023+40 daysOct 1, 2023
Jan 2026Apr 22, 2023+7 daysJul 1, 2023
Dec 2025Apr 15, 2023+14 daysJul 1, 2023
Nov 2025Apr 1, 2023no changeJul 1, 2023
Oct 2025Apr 1, 2023+2 monthsJul 1, 2023
Sep 2025Feb 8, 2023no changeMay 1, 2023
Aug 2025Feb 8, 2023no changeMay 1, 2023
Jul 2025Feb 8, 2023no changeMay 1, 2023
Jun 2025Feb 8, 2023+38 daysMar 1, 2023
May 2025Jan 1, 2023no changeMar 1, 2023
Apr 2025Jan 1, 2023+31 daysMar 1, 2023
Mar 2025Dec 1, 2022no changeMar 1, 2023
Feb 2025Dec 1, 2022no changeMar 1, 2023
Jan 2025Dec 1, 2022+16 daysMar 1, 2023
Dec 2024Nov 15, 2022no changeMar 1, 2023
Nov 2024Nov 15, 2022no changeMar 1, 2023
Oct 2024Nov 15, 2022+23 monthsMar 1, 2023
Sep 2024Dec 1, 2020back 12 monthsJan 1, 2023
Aug 2024Dec 1, 2021no changeJan 1, 2023
Jul 2024Dec 1, 2021back 12 monthsJan 1, 2023
Jun 2024Nov 22, 2022no changeJan 1, 2023
May 2024Nov 22, 2022no changeJan 1, 2023
Apr 2024Nov 22, 2022+2 monthsJan 1, 2023
Mar 2024Sep 8, 2022+7 daysJan 1, 2023
Feb 2024Sep 1, 2022+31 daysJan 1, 2023
Jan 2024Aug 1, 2022+8 monthsJan 1, 2023
Dec 2023Dec 1, 2021no changeJan 1, 2023
Nov 2023Dec 1, 2021no changeJan 1, 2023
Oct 2023Dec 1, 2021+19 monthsJan 1, 2023
Sep 2023May 1, 2020no changeMay 1, 2023
Aug 2023May 1, 2020back 21 monthsMay 1, 2023
Jul 2023Feb 1, 2022back 4 monthsMay 1, 2023
Jun 2023Jun 1, 2022-May 1, 2023

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.