EB-1 India Final Action Date — 14-Month History & Trend

Across these 14 bulletins the EB-1 India Final Action Date traced an unusually lopsided path. For the first seven bulletins, from May through November 2025, the cutoff did not move at all — it held at 15 February 2022 for half a year. The first movement was a modest 28-day step in December 2025 (to 15 March 2022), and then the January 2026 bulletin delivered the single largest move in this window: a 323-day jump that carried the cutoff from March 2022 all the way to 1 February 2023. Two small advances followed — 28 days in March 2026 and 31 days in April 2026, reaching 1 April 2023 — before the cutoff held steady in May 2026.

The June 2026 bulletin then reversed direction. The EB-1 India Final Action Date retrogressed 107 days, moving back from 1 April 2023 to 15 December 2022. Retrogression is a normal mechanism in the bulletin: it occurs when demand at a given priority date exceeds the visa numbers available under the annual and per-country limits, and the Department of State pulls the cutoff back to keep allocation within those limits. We describe this move exactly as the official chart recorded it and make no claim about what the next bulletin will do.

EB-1 is the first employment-based preference and, for most of the world, it stays Current. India is one of the few chargeability areas where demand has been heavy enough to produce a dated cutoff at all, which is why this line is worth watching separately from the worldwide EB-1 column. The pattern over these 14 bulletins — a long flat stretch, one outsized forward jump, a few small steps, then a retrogression — is a reminder that an employment cutoff is not a steady clock. It reflects the interaction of petition demand, per-country caps, and the fiscal-year visa supply, all of which the bulletin balances month by month.

For applicants tracking EB-1 India, two practical points follow from this record, neither of which is advice. First, a single bulletin can move the cutoff by nearly a year in either direction, so the date that matters is the one in the current bulletin, not last month's. Second, because EB-1, EB-2 and EB-3 India each move on their own schedule, it is common to compare all three before drawing any conclusion about timing. You can place EB-1 India beside the EB-2 and EB-3 India lines in the interactive trends chart linked below. Whether EB-1 is the right category for any particular profile is an individual legal question for a licensed attorney, not something a trend line can answer. Every date on this page is taken from the official U.S. Department of State Final Action Dates chart, which always controls, and this page is informational only.