The Department of State has released the July 2024 Visa Bulletin. D&S provides a Monthly Summary of the employment-based priority dates. In July 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 July 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 eleven months to February 1, 2022, and the Final Action Date for China will advance by two months to November 1, 2022. All other countries will remain current.
The EB-2 Final Action Date for India will advance by two months to June 15, 2021 and China will advance by one month to March 1, 2020. All other countries will advance by two months to March 15, 2023.
The EB-3 Professional/Skilled Worker Final Action Date for India will advance by one month to September 22, 2012, while China will remain at September 1, 2020. All other countries will retrogress by eleven months and three weeks to December 1, 2021.
The Final Action Dates for all EB-4 will advance by two months to January 1, 2021 for all countries. In addition, 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.
The State Department projects that the worldwide Final Action Dates for EB-3 will likely retrogress further or become unavailable in the August 2024 Visa Bulletin.