November 2026 visa bulletin: projected India EB-1, EB-2 and EB-3 movement

Not when this page was last updated. The latest bulletin the Department of State has published is October 2026. DOS normally releases the next month's bulletin in the second or third week of the preceding month. Everything on this page below the banner is a projection built from the published archive, not a published figure — and this page becomes the official November 2026 bulletin page, at this same URL, on release.

EB-2 India final action is projected at 1 Nov 2013 – 2 Jan 2014, from a published October 2026 cutoff of Nov 1, 2013. EB-3 India is projected at 1 Jan 2014 – 1 Feb 2014. EB-1 India is projected at 1 Feb 2023 – 21 May 2023. These are ranges rather than dates, their floor is no movement, and they are this site's arithmetic rather than a government figure. Verify against the Department of State once the bulletin is out.

Across 5 Novembers in the archive it advanced in 1, held still in 4. The median November advance, counting only the months it moved, is 91 days. November is the first bulletin written against a fiscal year that is already running. October sets the year's opening position — it is where categories that ran out of numbers get a cutoff back, which is exactly what happened to India EB-2 in October 2026. November is the first chance to see whether that opening position was a reset or the start of a run, and historically it has been the quietest month of the three: the archive shows India EB-2 final action moving in only one of the last five Novembers. That is a base rate from the archive rather than a forecast, and it is the most useful single thing to know about a November bulletin before the figures arrive.

Treat November as a confirmation month rather than a movement month. If your date is current on the chart USCIS is accepting, the work is the filing package, not the bulletin: the medical, the birth and marriage documents with their translations, the I-693, and the attorney engagement. People lose weeks to document-gathering after a date becomes current, which is the one part of this entirely under your control.

This is the shortest horizon of the three, one bulletin past the last published one, so its range is the narrowest and the one worth the most weight. It is also the month most likely to be superseded soonest — the Department of State normally publishes in the second or third week of the preceding month, so a November bulletin is typically out in the second half of October.

From the site's own snapshot archive of published bulletins. For each category and country we take the month-over-month change in the cutoff across the trailing 12 bulletins, excluding every month the category was Current or Unavailable — those are states rather than dates, and treating "U" as an old date is how movement trackers produce a confident "retrogressed 4,000 days". The low bound is no movement, which is the most common single outcome in the archive. The high bound applies the 75th-percentile observed advance per bulletin across the horizon, then holds it at the bulletin's own month, because a cutoff that reaches the present means there is no queue left. On how much to trust it: Historical movement scenario — not a probability interval and not a prediction. Actual dates may fall outside this range in either direction, including through retrogression or a category becoming unavailable. Each row rests on roughly a dozen observations, the bounds are chosen rather than fitted, and the method has not been back-tested. Treat it as "here is what this row has done recently, applied forward", not as a forecast with a known error rate.

The Department of State has not published it. The statutory floor for the worldwide employment-based level is 140,000 under INA 201(d)(1)(A), and the per-country ceiling is 7% of the year's total under INA 202(a)(2) — but the actual pool is the floor plus family-sponsored numbers unused in the prior year, which is not knowable in advance. Any page quoting a specific FY2027 employment-based total is quoting an estimate. That is also why these projections are not anchored on a supply figure.

Because the URL is the month, and the month does not change when the bulletin is published — only the page's status does. Putting a forecast word in the path would mean moving the page later, splitting the links and the history across two URLs for no reason. Each of these pages carries a projected status today and becomes the official bulletin page for its month at that same address on release.

Dates for Filing is the earlier of the two charts and controls when you may submit an I-485, along with the EAD and advance parole applications that go with it. Final Action Dates is the later chart and controls when a green card can actually be approved and a visa number issued. Being current on Dates for Filing gets you a work permit and a travel document; only Final Action ends the wait.

We do not know, and no honest page can tell you. USCIS makes that determination month by month and publishes it separately from the bulletin. The determination tracked site-wide covers October 2026, where the answer is: Dates for Filing. That is a different month from this one. Check uscis.gov/visabulletininfo before you file — using the wrong chart gets an I-485 rejected rather than held.

Yes, and the ranges on this page do not capture it — a range with a floor of "no movement" cannot. November is the first bulletin written against a fiscal year that is already running. October sets the year's opening position — it is where categories that ran out of numbers get a cutoff back, which is exactly what happened to India EB-2 in October 2026. November is the first chance to see whether that opening position was a reset or the start of a run, and historically it has been the quietest month of the three: the archive shows India EB-2 final action moving in only one of the last five Novembers. India EB-2 is the live example from the last fiscal year: it advanced to 15 July 2014 by April 2026, retrogressed in June, and went Unavailable from July through September before resetting at 1 November 2013 in the October 2026 bulletin. Retrogression and a category going Unavailable are both real possibilities and neither is forecastable from a trend.