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

The EB-2 India Final Action Date produced the most dramatic round trip of any line on this site over these 14 bulletins. It opened at 1 January 2013 and sat completely flat for the first five bulletins, from May through September 2025. Movement began in October 2025 with a 90-day step, followed by a string of advances through the winter — 44 days in December, 61 days in January 2026, and 62 days in March 2026 — before the largest single jump in this window: a 303-day advance in April 2026 that carried the cutoff from September 2013 to 15 July 2014. May 2026 held that date unchanged.

The June 2026 bulletin then reversed almost all of that gain. The EB-2 India Final Action Date retrogressed 317 days, falling back from 15 July 2014 to 1 September 2013. In a single bulletin the cutoff gave up roughly the ground it had taken eight months to gain. This is retrogression working as designed: when the number of applicants with priority dates at or before a cutoff exceeds the visa numbers available under the per-country limit, the Department of State moves the date backward to keep allocation within the annual ceiling. We report the move precisely as the official chart recorded it and make no prediction about the next bulletin.

What this record illustrates, more than any single date, is the depth of the EB-2 India backlog. Even the 303-day advance in April 2026 left the cutoff anchored in 2014 — large moves measured in days still leave the date many years in the past, because the underlying queue is so long. The movement is also lumpy rather than smooth: long flat stretches, occasional large steps forward, and the capacity for a sharp step back, all driven by how per-country limits and fiscal-year visa supply interact across the year.

For applicants watching EB-2 India, the comparison that matters most is with EB-3 India, because the two categories for India often sit close together and sometimes trade places. Over this window the EB-3 India line moved more gently and ended June 2026 at 15 December 2013, while EB-2 India ended at 1 September 2013 after its retrogression — placing EB-3 ahead of EB-2 for India at the close of the window. That is the kind of relationship some applicants weigh, though whether either category fits a given case is an individual legal question for a qualified attorney, not something a chart decides. Use the interactive trends chart linked below to put the two India lines side by side. Every date here is drawn from the official Final Action Dates chart, which always controls, and this page is informational only.