The State Department’s November 2026 Visa Bulletin moves the EB-2 final action date for applicants charged to every country except China and India three months forward, from January 1, 2025 to April 1, 2025. It is the largest change in the employment-based charts for the month; the rest of the table moved by weeks or not at all.
EB-2 India stays at November 1, 2013 and EB-2 China at October 1, 2021, both unchanged from October. EB-3 advances for every country except the Philippines: worldwide from May 15, 2024 to June 15, 2024, China from January 8, 2022 to January 22, 2022, and India from January 1, 2014 to January 22, 2014. In the “other workers” category the worldwide date jumps five months, from January 1, 2022 to June 1, 2022, while China stays at October 1, 2019 and India moves to January 22, 2014. EB-1 China gains a month, from July 1, 2023 to August 1, 2023, EB-1 India stays at February 1, 2023, and EB-1 remains current for all other countries. The unreserved EB-5 dates do not move: China December 1, 2016 and India December 23, 2023, with the rural, high-unemployment and infrastructure set-asides current.
The filing chart is the part that decides who can act in November. On its visa-availability page, USCIS says that for November 2026 both family-sponsored and employment-based adjustment applicants “must use the Dates for Filing chart.” On that chart EB-2 sits at March 15, 2026 for all countries except China (January 1, 2023) and India (January 15, 2015), and EB-3 sits at August 1, 2024 for all countries except China (April 1, 2024), India (January 15, 2015) and the Philippines (January 1, 2024). For India, that puts the filing date more than a year ahead of the final action date in both EB-2 and EB-3. The Dates for Filing figures are unchanged from October in every employment-based category except other workers worldwide, which moves from June 1 to July 1, 2022.
The bulletin says the allocations were made on the demand the department had received by October 5, and that the charts govern visas issued during November. Final action dates can move backward as well as forward in later months, and the chart USCIS picks each month — final action or dates for filing — is what determines whether an adjustment application can be filed at all, so the two charts are worth reading together rather than one alone.
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