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September 2026 bulletin

EB-2 India Green Card Wait Time

Advanced Degree Professionals and Persons of Exceptional Ability, chargeability India. Every Visa Bulletin from December 2001 to September 2026.

Final action date
Unavailable
since July 2026 — last published date was Sep 1, 2013
Date for filing
Jan 15, 2015
September 2026
Current backlog
12.7 yr
at the last published date (June 2026)
Pace, last 12 bulletins
-
category closed — no movement to measure
Projected wait
-
no projection while the category is closed

Visa numbers sometimes run out late in a fiscal year; the count resets when the new fiscal year begins in October.

How the EB-2 India cutoff date has moved

2000200520102015202020252001-122026-09
EB-2 India final action dates, December 2001 to September 2026. The solid line is the published cutoff date. The dashed line is the bulletin's own month, so the vertical distance between them is the size of the backlog at that moment. Months shown as Current or Unavailable have no cutoff date and are skipped.

The last twelve bulletins

BulletinFinal action dateMovedDate for filing
September 2026 Unavailable - Jan 15, 2015
July 2026 Unavailable - Jan 15, 2015
June 2026 Sep 1, 2013 ▼ -317 days Jan 15, 2015
May 2026 Jul 15, 2014 no movement Jan 15, 2015
April 2026 Jul 15, 2014 ▲ +303 days Jan 15, 2015
March 2026 Sep 15, 2013 ▲ +62 days Nov 1, 2014
February 2026 Jul 15, 2013 no movement Dec 1, 2013
January 2026 Jul 15, 2013 ▲ +61 days Dec 1, 2013
December 2025 May 15, 2013 ▲ +44 days Dec 1, 2013
November 2025 Apr 1, 2013 no movement Dec 1, 2013
October 2025 Apr 1, 2013 ▲ +90 days Dec 1, 2013
September 2025 Jan 1, 2013 no movement Feb 1, 2013

When this category went backwards

The cutoff date for EB-2 India has retrogressed 19 times in the published record. A retrogression means the State Department pulled the date back, so people who were about to become eligible went back into the queue.

BulletinFromToDays lost
July 2026Sep 1, 2013Unavailable became unavailable
June 2026Jul 15, 2014Sep 1, 2013 ▼ -317 days
April 2023Oct 8, 2011Jan 1, 2011 ▼ -280 days
December 2022Apr 1, 2012Oct 8, 2011 ▼ -176 days
October 2022Dec 1, 2014Apr 1, 2012 ▼ -974 days
September 2018Mar 15, 2009Jan 1, 2007 ▼ -804 days
June 2016Nov 22, 2008Oct 1, 2004 ▼ -1513 days
October 2015Jan 1, 2006May 1, 2005 ▼ -245 days
September 2015Oct 1, 2008Jan 1, 2006 ▼ -1004 days
November 2014May 1, 2009Feb 15, 2005 ▼ -1536 days
December 2013Jun 15, 2008Nov 15, 2004 ▼ -1308 days
June 2012Aug 15, 2007Unavailable became unavailable

Where these numbers come from

Final action dates and dates for filing are taken from the monthly Visa Bulletin published by the U.S. Department of State. Each bulletin is parsed into a machine-readable record and checked against the published page before it is committed, so the series here is the bulletin's own wording, not a restatement of it. The movement and backlog columns are arithmetic on those dates and are described on the methodology page.

Source

Every date on this page comes from the September 2026 Visa Bulletin published by the U.S. Department of State. Nothing here is estimated, interpolated or filled in, and the designations Current and Unavailable are reproduced exactly as printed.

This bulletin as published.

Backlog years, pace and projections are arithmetic on those dates and are described on the methodology page. Corrections: data@visabacklog.com.

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