EB-3 Priority Dates: India, China & Rest of World (October 2026)

Final Action: Jan 1, 2014 (No change from the previous bulletin). Dates for Filing: Jan 15, 2015. Your priority date must be earlier than the listed date. For employment-based adjustment of status this month, USCIS accepts I-485 filings under the Dates for Filing chart.

Each country is limited to 7% of the combined family and employment preference visas each year. Demand from applicants born in India exceeds that share, so India gets its own, later cutoff date. India is 124 months 14 days behind the Rest of World Final Action date (May 15, 2024).

No one outside the State Department knows, and this site does not publish forecasts. What the record shows: over the last 13 bulletins, the EB-3 India Final Action date advanced 4 times, retrogressed 0 times, stayed flat 8 times. The Visa Bulletin itself sometimes includes notes on expected movement; check the official text each month.

No. Other Workers is the unskilled-worker line inside the third preference and has its own cutoff dates in the Visa Bulletin. Both rows are shown in the tables on this page — read the one that matches your I-140 classification.

Generally, a priority date from an approved I-140 carries over to a later I-140 petition, unless the earlier approval was revoked for fraud, willful misrepresentation, a material error, or invalidation of the labor certification. Filing a new EB-3 petition still requires a PERM labor certification and an employer.