State Department February 2025 Visa Bulletin Summary

The Department of State has released the February 2025 Visa Bulletin. D&S provides a Monthly Summary of the employment-based priority dates. In February 2025, 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 February 2025, 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 8, 2022. All other countries will remain current.

The EB-2 Final Action Date for India will remain at October 1, 2012 and China will remain at April 22, 2020. All other countries will remain at April 1, 2023.

The EB-3 Professional/Skilled Worker Final Action Date for India will advance by two weeks to December 15, 2012, while China will advance by one month to July 1, 2020. All other countries will remain at December 1, 2022.

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 January 1, 2022, while China will remain at July 15, 2016. All other countries will remain current. The EB-5 “Set-Aside” categories (Rural, High unemployment, and Infrastructure) will remain current for all countries.