EB-2 China Final Action Date — 14-Month History & Trend

Over these 14 bulletins the EB-2 China Final Action Date advanced from 1 October 2020 to 1 September 2021 — about eleven months of cutoff progress, all of it concentrated in the first nine bulletins. The movement came in clear steps: a 61-day advance in June 2025, a small 14-day move in July, a flat late summer, then a larger 107-day step in October 2025, 61 days in December, and a 92-day advance in January 2026 that brought the cutoff to 1 September 2021.

From January 2026 onward the line went completely still. It held at 1 September 2021 through February, March, April, May and June 2026 — six consecutive bulletins without movement. That half-year plateau is now the defining feature of this window, and it is worth reading carefully rather than predictively. A cutoff that stops advancing is not necessarily a problem: it typically reflects how demand at the current priority date catches up with the visa numbers available under the annual per-country limit. Flat stretches of several months are an ordinary part of the cycle, and we make no forecast about whether or when the line resumes moving.

EB-2 is the second employment-based preference, for advanced-degree professionals and those of exceptional ability. For China, the EB-2 and EB-3 cutoffs are worth watching together, because they do not always sit at the same point and the gap between them shifts from bulletin to bulletin. Over this same 14-month window the EB-3 China line continued to advance — reaching 1 August 2021 in June 2026 — while EB-2 China stayed frozen at 1 September 2021. That kind of divergence is exactly why some China applicants track both lines rather than just their own category.

Two practical observations follow from this record, neither of them advice. First, a long plateau does not mean the category is stuck permanently; it means supply and demand are in balance at the current date, and a future bulletin could move it in either direction. Second, the relationship between EB-2 and EB-3 for China is not fixed, so a comparison that held last year may not hold now. You can switch between categories and countries in the interactive chart linked below to see the two China lines side by side. Whether EB-2 fits a given case is an individual legal question for a licensed attorney. Every figure here comes from the official Final Action Dates chart, which controls, and this page is informational only.