Green Card Wait Time Tracker & Estimator

Enter your category, country of birth, and priority date above and the tracker shows how many applicants with earlier priority dates are ahead of you, using the USCIS pending Form I-485 inventory (snapshot as of 2026-04-03). It counts only people who have already filed I-485 at the year-level granularity USCIS reports, so it is a concrete place in line — not a wait time, and it understates total demand because many eligible applicants haven't filed yet.

The July 2026 Final Action Date for EB-2 India is Unavailable — EB-2 India has no visa numbers available for July 2026. At the cutoff's recent pace of movement, a new EB-2 India applicant realistically faces a wait measured in decades, not years — which is why many applicants also file EB-1 or EB-3 where eligible.

The Final Action Date (FAD) is the cutoff that controls when a green card can actually be approved. Dates for Filing (DFF) is an earlier cutoff that, in months when USCIS accepts it, lets you submit your I-485 sooner — unlocking EAD work and travel benefits while you wait for the FAD to reach your priority date.

US law sets a worldwide employment-based preference level of at least 140,000 per year, and under INA §202 no single country of birth may use more than 7% of the combined family-sponsored and employment-based preference limits (a proration cap, not a fixed India quota). Because demand from India far exceeds that prorated share every year, the unused demand piles up into a multi-decade backlog for EB-2 and EB-3 India.

Yes. When demand exceeds the visas available, the State Department can move a cutoff backwards — called retrogression — or mark a category 'Unavailable'. Cases already filed stay in line, but approvals pause until the cutoff advances past the priority date again. This is why any wait estimate is a projection, not a promise.

It projects the average movement of your category's cutoff over roughly the last 30 visa bulletins forward, and shows an optimistic-to-pessimistic range rather than a single date. Real waits depend on future demand, retrogression, country-cap spillover, and possible law changes — treat the output as a planning range, not legal advice.

Yes. Alongside EB-1 through EB-5 (including EB-3 Other Workers and EB-4), the tracker covers F1, F2A, F2B, F3, and F4 family-sponsored categories for India, China, Mexico, the Philippines, and all other countries, using the same re-verified Final Action Date and Dates for Filing data.

Mexico and the Philippines are large source countries for family-sponsored immigration specifically, so the State Department tracks them as separate chargeability areas alongside India, China, and all other countries — a category can be current for 'all other countries' but still backlogged for Mexico or the Philippines (or vice versa) depending on historical demand.

The long-run pace is the average monthly cutoff advancement over the trailing 60 bulletins. The 1.5x and 0.4x scenarios scale that same pace up or down to show how sensitive your projected wait is to faster or slower future movement — they are not separate forecasts, just stress tests on the same baseline.

A '—' means that specific category, country, and chart-type cell could not be independently verified against the official Department of State Visa Bulletin archive for that month. We show it as unavailable rather than guess, estimate, or carry forward a neighboring value — a missing figure is safer than a wrong one.