The Department of State has released the July 2025 Visa Bulletin. D&S provides a Monthly Summary of the employment-based priority dates. In July 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 July 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 15, 2022, and the Final Action Date for China will advance by one week to November 15, 2022. All other countries will remain current.
The EB-2 Final Action Date for India will remain at January 1, 2013 and China will advance by two weeks to December 15, 2020. All other countries will remain at October 15, 2023.
The EB-3 Professional/Skilled Worker Final Action Date for India will advance by one week to April 22, 2013, while China will advance by one week to December 1, 2020. All other countries will advance by seven weeks to April 1, 2023.
The EB-4 category will be “unavailable” in July and continuing through the end of the fiscal year on September 30, 2025. The category was made “unavailable” on February 28, 2025, by which time all available EB-4 visas for the 2025 fiscal year had been used. The annual limit will reset at the start of the new fiscal year on October 1, 2025.
With respect to the Final Action Date for the EB-5 Unreserved categories, India will remain at May 1, 2019, while China will remain at January 22, 2014. All other countries will remain current. The EB-5 “Set-Aside” categories (Rural, High unemployment, and Infrastructure) will remain current for all countries.