May 2016 Visa Bulletin

Final Action Dates and Dates for Filing published for May 2016 (fiscal year 2016), with the change from April 2016. Official source: travel.state.gov.

What changed

• EB-3 (Philippines) advanced 99 days, from 1 May 2008 to 8 Aug 2008.
• F1 (Philippines) advanced 92 days, from 1 Jul 2004 to 1 Oct 2004.
• F2B (Rest of World, China, India) advanced 78 days, from 15 Jun 2009 to 1 Sep 2009.
• F1 (Rest of World, China, India) advanced 61 days, from 22 Sep 2008 to 22 Nov 2008.
• F3 (Philippines) advanced 31 days, from 22 Dec 1993 to 22 Jan 1994.
• F2B (Philippines) advanced 30 days, from 1 Apr 2005 to 1 May 2005.
• F4 (Philippines) advanced 30 days, from 1 Sep 1992 to 1 Oct 1992.
• EB-3 (India) advanced 24 days, from 8 Aug 2004 to 1 Sep 2004.
• F2A (Mexico) advanced 24 days, from 22 Jul 2014 to 15 Aug 2014.
• F1 (Mexico) advanced 17 days, from 22 Jan 1995 to 8 Feb 1995.
• EB-2 (India) advanced 14 days, from 8 Nov 2008 to 22 Nov 2008.
• F2A (Rest of World, China, India, Philippines) advanced 10 days, from 22 Oct 2014 to 1 Nov 2014.
• F3 (Rest of World, China, India) advanced 9 days, from 22 Nov 2004 to 1 Dec 2004.
• F3 (Mexico) advanced 7 days, from 1 Oct 1994 to 8 Oct 1994.

17 of 40 tracked cut-offs were unchanged.

Final Action Dates

Dates for Filing

Dates are exactly as published; C = Current, U = Unavailable. Some categories (EB-5 set-asides, EB-4 religious workers) are in the dataset. Priority dates earlier than the cut-off may be processed; see the FAQ.

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