Priority Date Checker for Indians

Your EB category (EB-1, EB-2, or EB-3), your country of birth (India or Other), your priority date (month and year — from your PERM receipt or I-140 approval notice), your current stage (PERM pending, I-140 approved, etc.), and which chart you want to understand (Final Action Date or Dates for Filing). No receipt numbers, A-numbers, or personal information are collected.

The visa bulletin is updated monthly and this tool uses manually maintained data. While we update the data each month, there can be a brief lag. Always verify the current month's cutoff dates directly at travel.state.gov and the USCIS Dates for Filing authorization at uscis.gov/visabulletininfo. Decisions about filing I-485 should be made with your immigration attorney based on the current official bulletin.

Final Action Date (Table A) is the cutoff for when USCIS can approve your green card. Dates for Filing (Table B) is an earlier cutoff that sometimes allows you to file I-485 — getting EAD and Advance Parole — before your Final Action Date is current. Table B is only available when USCIS specifically authorizes it in their monthly Adjustment of Status Filing Chart announcement.

Trust your attorney. This tool uses manually updated data that may not reflect the very latest bulletin, and your attorney has access to the exact current bulletin and USCIS filing authorization memo. This tool is educational only. Always defer to your attorney and the official sources.

'C' means Current — the chart does not impose a priority-date cutoff for that category and country that bulletin month. It does not by itself remove the other eligibility, filing, admissibility, petition, documentation, or visa-availability requirements that may apply. Current status is more commonly seen where demand does not exceed available visa numbers; India EB-1, EB-2, and EB-3 may each have a cutoff date, become Current, or become Unavailable depending on the bulletin month. Adjustment-of-status applicants must also confirm which chart USCIS permits them to use that month.

'U' means Unavailable — no immigrant visa number is available for final issuance in that category and country under that chart for the bulletin month. Other petition preparation, case maintenance, or procedural steps may still be possible, and adjustment-of-status filing eligibility must be evaluated separately using the chart USCIS authorizes that month. This can happen near the end of the fiscal year or when demand has consumed the available numbers.

The State Department publishes a new visa bulletin in the second week of each month (sometimes later) for the following month. For example, the July bulletin is published in early June. The USCIS Adjustment of Status Filing Chart (which announces Table B authorization) is published shortly after the State Department bulletin.

Each I-140 has its own priority date, typically the date the underlying PERM was filed. If both I-140s share the same PERM, they have the same priority date. You can check your situation under both EB-2 and EB-3 separately and compare. Having both gives flexibility — you can file I-485 under whichever category is more current and later interfile to the other if the visa bulletin moves.