Visa Bulletin Predictions

Many people try to predict cutoff dates for the upcoming visa bulletin. It has become a social game on discussion forums. Frankly, unless you are the Department of State who has up-to-date demand vs. supply information, you can only guess. And your guess is as good as mine.

If you are so curious that you must come up with visa bulletin predictions, we have some tools that may help you.

• Use our Visa Bulletin Toolbox and list all previous cutoff dates by month for a particular category. For example:
  • China EB2
  • China EB3
  • India EB2
  • India EB3
  • ROW EB3
• Check out the EB2/EB3 tracking graph
• Read the general Visa Bulletin Predictions provided by the Department of State as a guideline

DOS Visa Bulletin Predictions Made in February 2013:

The Department of State published their predictions on monthly cutoff date movement for April to June of 2013:

• EB1: Current
• EB2:
  • Worldwide: Current
  • China: 3 to 6 weeks
  • India: no movement (potential risk of retrogressing further)
• EB3:
  • Worldwide: 4 to 6 weeks
  • China: 2 to 3 months
  • India: up to 2 weeks
  • Mexico: 4 to 6 weeks
  • Philippines: up to 1 week
• EB4: Current
• EB5: Current (Currently there is no reason to believe that it will be necessary to establish a China Employment Fifth preference category cut-off date during FY-2013, since demand over first six months of FY-2013 has now averaged out to a manageable level.)
• Family-Sponsored:
  • F1: 3 to 4 weeks
  • F2A: 3 to 5 weeks
  • F2B: 3 to 5 weeks
  • F3: 1 to 2 weeks
  • F4: up to 2 weeks

See Also:

• Visa Bulletin Home Page
• Visa Bulletin Predictions and Analyses on Our Blog
• 2012 Visa Bulletin Predictions
• 2011 Visa Bulletin Predictions
• 2010 Visa Bulletin Predictions
• 2010 Visa Bulletin Prediction Results

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