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Your priority date is generally the date when your relative or employer properly filed the immigrant visa petition on your behalf with USCIS.

The visa bulletin is issued every month by the Department of State. It shows which green card applications can move forward, based on when the I-130 petition that starts the green card process was originally filed.

The government estimates that 165,000 green cards will be available to persons in the employment categories in Fiscal Year 2024, down from 197,000 in FY 2023, but 25,000 higher than the 140,000 mandated by law as the result of 25,000 unused family-based green cards in Fiscal Year 2023.

If your Priority Date is after the date on the bulletin, then your immigrant visa is not yet available and you are not yet eligible to apply for a Green Card. Continue to check online regularly to find out when you can apply for a Green Card. The dates in the chart change monthly.

In the April 2023 Visa Bulletin, the EB-2 final action dates for Rest of World, Mexico, and the Philippines retrogressed to keep number use within the FY 2023 annual limit. This was due to higher than expected demand from applicants with priority dates earlier than the established final action dates.

You have reached the front of the line when your priority date becomes "current." The U.S. Department of State publishes a monthly visa bulletin that lists the priority dates which have become current.

The Visa Bulletin allows the government to manage its backlog of green card and visa applications for foreign nationals.

Now that you understand how the visa bulletin works, you'll need to monitor it on a regular basis. The U.S. Department of State publishes a monthly bulletin for employment-based and diversity visa categories as well.