April 2025 Visa Bulletin

This evening, the U.S. Department of State (DOS) released the April 2025 Visa Bulletin. There is some forward movement in most of the oversubscribed categories, and retrogression in the EB5 unreserved category. All cutoff dates listed refer to those in the final action chart (i.e., Chart A), unless otherwise specified.

Visa Bulletin Summary

Employment-Based, First Preference (EB1) Category

The cutoff date for EB1 India advances to 15.Feb.2022. EB1 China’s cutoff date remains fixed at 08.Nov.2022. The EB1 category remains current for all other countries of chargeability.

Employment-Based, Second Preference (EB2) Category

In the EB2 category, India’s cutoff date moves ahead to 01.Jan.2013. China’s EB2 cutoff date advances to 01.Oct.2020. The EB2 cutoff date for all other countries is set at 22.Jun.2023.

Employment-Based, Third Preference (EB3) Category

EB3 India’s cutoff date progresses to 01.Apr.2013. For China, the EB3 cutoff date advances to 01.Nov.2020. The EB3 cutoff dates for all other countries of chargeability moves forward to 01.Jan.2023.

EB3 Other Workers

In the EB3 other workers category, India’s cutoff date matches its EB3 counterpart at 01.Apr.2013. For China, the cutoff date moves up to 01.Apr.2017. The EB3 other workers cutoff date for the Philippines shifts forward to 15.Jan.2021. The EB3 other workers cutoff date for all other countries of chargeability advances to 22.May.2021.

Employment-Based, Fourth Preference (EB4) Category

The EB4 category is set to “unavailable” for all countries of chargeability. All immigrant visas in this category for the current fiscal year have been used. Accordingly, it presumably will remain unavailable until the new fiscal year starts on 01.Oct.2025.

Employment-Based, Fifth Preference (EB5) Category

In the EB5 category, India’s unreserved (i.e., EB5 immigrant visa numbers not set aside for rural, high unemployment, and infrastructure projects) cutoff date retrogresses to 01.Nov.2019.

China’s unreserved cutoff date retrogresses to 22.Jan.2014. EB5 remains current for all other EB5 categories and countries of chargeability.

Conclusion

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