The Department of State has released the April 2024 Visa Bulletin. D&S provides a Monthly Summary of the employment-based priority dates. In April 2024, 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 April 2024, foreign nationals must have a priority date that is earlier than that listed on the Final Action Dates chart.
The EB-1 Final Action Date for India will advance by five months to March 1, 2021, and the Final Action Date for China will advance by six weeks to September 1, 2022. All other countries will remain current.
The EB-2 Final Action Date for India will advance by six weeks to April 15, 2021 and China will advance by one month to February 1, 2020. All other countries will advance by seven weeks to January 15, 2023.
The EB-3 Professional/Skilled Worker Final Action Date for India will advance by six weeks to August 15, 2012, and China will remain at September 1, 2020. All other countries will advance by two and a half months to November 22, 2022.
In the fourth preference category EB-4, Minister and Non-Minister Religious Workers Program is set to expire on March 22, 2024. If Congress doesn't take any action to extend the dates beyond that date, the category will become “unavailable” after midnight on March 24.
With respect to the Final Action Date for the EB-5 Unreserved categories, India will remain at December 1, 2020, while China will remain at December 15, 2015. All other countries will remain current. The EB-5 “Set-Aside” categories (Rural, High unemployment, and Infrastructure) will remain current for all countries.
In addition, the State Department projects “very little to no forward movement” in employment-based immigrant visa categories in the coming months, due to the fact that many employment-based Final Action dates will advance in the April 2024 Visa Bulletin.