The Department of State has released the July 2023 Visa Bulletin. D&S provides a Monthly Summary of the employment-based priority dates. In July 2023, USCIS will accept employment-based adjustment of status applications based on the Final Action Dates For Employment-Based Preference chart. To be eligible to file an adjustment of status application in July 2023, foreign nationals must have a priority date that is earlier than that listed on the Final Action Date chart.
With respect to Final Action Dates, EB-1 China and India will maintain their Final Action cutoff date of February 1, 2022. All other EB-1 categories will remain current. For the EB-2 categories, India will maintain its Final Action cutoff date of January 1, 2011 and China will maintain its Final Action cutoff date of June 8, 2019. All other EB-2 Final Action cutoff dates will remain February 15, 2022.
In July, the EB-3 India Professional/Skilled Work Final Action Date will retrogress by more than three years to January 1, 2009 and EB-3 China Professional/Skilled Worker Final Action date will remain at April 1, 2019. All other countries will retrogress by 4 months to February 1, 2022.
The Final Action Dates for all EB-4 will remain September 1, 2018 for all countries. In addition, the Final Action date for the EB-5 Unreserved categories, China will remain at September 8, 2015 while India Final Action will remain at April 1, 2017. All other countries will remain current. The EB-5 “Set-Aside” categories (Rural, High unemployment, and Infrastructure) will remain current for all countries.