The Department of State has released the March 2025 Visa Bulletin. D&S provides a Monthly Summary of the employment-based priority dates. In March 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 March 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 advance by six weeks to December 1, 2012 and China will advance by two weeks to May 8, 2020. All other countries will advance by six weeks to May 15, 2023.
The EB-3 Professional/Skilled Worker Final Action Date for India will advance by six weeks to February 1, 2013, while China will advance by one month to August 1, 2020. All other countries will remain at December 1, 2022.
In the fourth preference category EB-4, Minister and Non-Minister Religious Workers Program is set to expire on March 14, 2025. If Congress doesn't take any action to extend the dates beyond that date, the category will become “unavailable” after midnight on March 13. The Final Action Dates for all other EB-4 will retrogress by nearly a year and a half to August 1, 2019 for all countries.
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.