Department of State September 2024 Visa Bulletin Summary

The Department of State has released the September 2024 Visa Bulletin. D&S provides a Monthly Summary of the employment-based priority dates. In September 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 September 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 remain at February 1, 2022, and the Final Action Date for China will remain at November 1, 2022. All other countries will remain current.

The EB-2 Final Action Date for India will remain at July 15, 2012 and China will remain at March 1, 2020. All other countries will remain at March 15, 2023.

The EB-3 Professional/Skilled Worker Final Action Date for India will remain at October 22, 2012, while China will remain at September 1, 2020. All other countries will retrogress by one year to December 1, 2020.

The Final Action Dates for all EB-4 will remain at 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 anticipates that the worldwide Final Action Dates for EB-3 will advance in the October 2024 Visa Bulletin.