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March 2023 bulletin

EB-4 El Sal./Guat./Hond. Green Card Wait Time

Certain Special Immigrants, chargeability El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Every Visa Bulletin from May 2016 to March 2023.

Final action date
Mar 15, 2018
March 2023 bulletin
Date for filing
Apr 15, 2018
March 2023
Current backlog
5.0 yr
bulletin month minus cutoff date
Pace, last 12 bulletins
+27 d
average movement per bulletin
Projected wait
-
pace does not support a projection

The EB-4 El Sal./Guat./Hond. row last appeared in the March 2023 Visa Bulletin; later bulletins no longer list it. Everything below is that published record.

How the EB-4 El Sal./Guat./Hond. cutoff date has moved

20102012201420162018202020222016-052023-03
EB-4 El Sal./Guat./Hond. final action dates, May 2016 to March 2023. 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
March 2023 Mar 15, 2018 no movement Apr 15, 2018
February 2023 Mar 15, 2018 no movement Apr 15, 2018
January 2023 Mar 15, 2018 no movement Apr 15, 2018
December 2022 Mar 15, 2018 no movement Apr 15, 2018
November 2022 Mar 15, 2018 no movement Apr 15, 2018
October 2022 Mar 15, 2018 ▲ +127 days Apr 15, 2018
September 2022 Nov 8, 2017 no movement Dec 8, 2017
August 2022 Nov 8, 2017 no movement Dec 8, 2017
July 2022 Nov 8, 2017 ▲ +191 days Dec 8, 2017
June 2022 May 1, 2017 no movement Jun 15, 2017
May 2022 May 1, 2017 no movement Jun 15, 2017
April 2022 May 1, 2017 no movement Jun 15, 2017

When this category went backwards

The cutoff date for EB-4 El Sal./Guat./Hond. has retrogressed 2 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
March 2022Mar 15, 2019May 1, 2017 ▼ -683 days
September 2019Jul 1, 2016Unavailable 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 March 2023 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, archived copy of the page.

These figures were recovered from an archived capture of the bulletin rather than read from the live State Department page.

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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