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EB-1 India Final Action Date — 13-Month History & Trend

EB-1 was Current for almost everyone until recent years; India now carries its own cutoff. Here is the EB-1 India Final Action Date across the last 13 bulletins, exactly as each was published.

EB-1 India Final Action Date trend

This single-line chart traces the EB-1 (Priority Workers) Final Action Date for India across the last 13 monthly bulletins (May 2025 to May 2026). A rising line means the cutoff advanced; a falling line means it retrogressed. "Current" and "Unavailable" appear in their own bands, never as a date.

Current status (May 2026 Visa Bulletin)

As of the May 2026 Visa Bulletin, the EB-1 (Priority Workers) Final Action Date for India is 2023-04-01. Every figure on this page is taken directly from the official U.S. Department of State Final Action Dates chart for each month; we do not use the Dates for Filing chart here.

13-month progression

The table below lists the EB-1 India Final Action Date for each verified bulletin and the month-over-month move. Movement is described as it happened; we do not predict where the date goes next.

BulletinFinal Action DateChange vs prior month
May 20252022-02-15—
June 20252022-02-15Unchanged
July 20252022-02-15Unchanged
August 20252022-02-15Unchanged
September 20252022-02-15Unchanged
October 20252022-02-15Unchanged
November 20252022-02-15Unchanged
December 20252022-03-15Advanced 28 days
January 20262023-02-01Advanced 323 days
February 20262023-02-01Unchanged
March 20262023-03-01Advanced 28 days
April 20262023-04-01Advanced 31 days
May 20262023-04-01Unchanged

What this trend means

The EB-1 India Final Action Date moved from 15 February 2022 to 1 April 2023 across these 13 bulletins — close to fourteen months of cutoff progress, almost all of it concentrated in a single bulletin. The line was completely flat for the first seven bulletins (May through November 2025), held at 15 February 2022. It then took a small 28-day step in December 2025 before a 323-day jump in the January 2026 bulletin carried it from March 2022 to February 2023. Two further small advances followed — 28 days in March 2026 and 31 days in April — and the May 2026 bulletin held the date steady.

EB-1 is the first employment preference, and for most of the world it stays Current; India is one of the countries where demand has pushed it into a dated cutoff. The pattern here — a long flat period broken by one outsized jump — is a reminder of how much a single bulletin can change the picture, and equally how long the line can sit still before that happens. We report these movements as recorded in the official charts and make no prediction about future bulletins; a multi-month plateau in EB-1 India is well within the normal range. Whether EB-1 is the right category for a particular profile is an individual legal question for a licensed attorney. To compare EB-1 India with the EB-2 and EB-3 India lines, use the interactive trends chart linked below. The official Visa Bulletin controls every date on this page, which is informational only.

This page is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. Past movement does not predict future movement. Always confirm dates against the official Visa Bulletin, which controls. For advice about your individual case, consult a licensed immigration attorney or accredited representative.

Explore more

To compare India against other countries in the same category, or to switch categories entirely, use the interactive EB Visa Bulletin Trends chart. For how this history is compiled and verified, see the methodology note. For a plain-English read of the newest bulletin, see our May 2026 Visa Bulletin analysis, and to check a specific priority date, use the Priority Date Calculator.

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