EB-4 China Green Card Wait Time

Certain Special Immigrants, chargeability China (mainland born). Every Visa Bulletin from January 2005 to September 2026.

How the EB-4 China cutoff date has moved

The last twelve bulletins

When this category went backwards

The cutoff date for EB-4 China has retrogressed 4 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.

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.