Department of State February 2018 Visa Bulletin Summary

The Department of State has released the February 2018 Visa Bulletin.  D&S provides a Monthly Summary of the family and employment-based priority dates.  

With respect to Final Action Dates, the EB-1 category remains current across all areas of chargeability. EB-2 China and EB-2 India have progressed slightly to October 1, 2013 and December 8, 2008 respectively. All other EB-2 areas of chargeability remain current. EB-3 remains unchanged across all areas of chargeability, with the exceptions of EB-3 China, which has progressed five months to September 15, 2014, EB-3 India, which has progressed one month to December 1, 2006, and EB-3 Philippines, which has progressed two weeks to March 1, 2016. Similarly, Other Workers remain unchanged across all areas of chargeability with the exceptions of China, which has progressed to February 1, 2007, India, which has progressed to December 1, 2006, and Philippines, which has progressed to March 1, 2016. EB-4 Mexico has progressed by less than a month to June 22, 2016. All other areas of chargeability remain unchanged. Certain Religious Workers remain unavailable across all areas of chargeability. EB-5 for both non-regional centers and regional centers remains unchanged.

Application Filing Dates for all categories and across all areas of chargeability are unchanged in February 2018, with the exception of EB-2 China, which has progressed one year to November 15, 2014, EB-3 China, which has progressed four months to January 1, 2016, and EB-5 China, which has retrogressed one month to September 1, 2014 for both regional centers and non-regional centers.

As of today, January 16, 2018, USCIS has not advised whether, in February 2018, it will accept adjustment of status applications for family and employment-based petitions based on final action dates or application filing dates.