Check your priority date

No account. Your date is never stored. Arithmetic on the bulletin, not a prediction.

Your priority date
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Example · F3, all other countries, priority date 1 Mar 2016

Distance to cutoff1y 4m
Cutoff · September 202622 Oct 2014
Your date1 Mar 2016
Avg pace per bulletin2.5 wk
Last change · September 2026advance of 2.4 years, far outside precedent for this category
20042007201020132016201620182020202220242026 Your date · 1 Mar 2016 1y 4m
Final action cutoff at each bulletin, October 2015 – September 2026. History only; the chart ends at the latest bulletin.

Your priority date is 1 year, 4 months later than the final action cutoff of 22 October 2014.

Across 131 measured changes in the archive, the final action cutoff typically moved forward about 3 weeks per bulletin, leaving out 6 exceptional jumps. The most recent move is far outside precedent for this category.

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Cutoffs from the September 2026 Visa Bulletin.

What a priority date is

In family-sponsored immigration, your priority date is generally the date USCIS received the Form I-130 petition filed for you. It is printed on the I-797C receipt notice for that petition. It marks your place in the queue for your category and country.

Don’t know your priority date?

For a family-sponsored case, the priority date is generally the date USCIS received the Form I-130 petition filed for you. Look for it on the Form I-797 notices for that petition:

If the petition was filed for a parent or spouse and you are included as a child or spouse, you share their priority date. When you are unsure, ask whoever filed the petition, or the attorney handling the case.

How to read the result

Each month the State Department’s Visa Bulletin publishes a cutoff date for every category and country. A priority date earlier than the cutoff is within the range the bulletin lists for that month; a later one is not yet. The checker shows the distance between your date and the current cutoff, and charts the category’s cutoff at every bulletin in the archive against your date.

It does not predict when a date will be reached. Cutoffs can advance, stand still, or move backward, and past movement does not set future movement. The pace figure describes what the archive recorded, and is withheld where the category has too little history to measure.

Final action dates and dates for filing

The bulletin has two charts. Final action dates govern when a visa or green card can be issued. Dates for filing govern when documents or an adjustment of status application may be submitted, in months when USCIS designates that chart. The USCIS chart designation says which applies each month.

The five family-sponsored categories

F1
Unmarried sons and daughters, age 21 or older, of U.S. citizens.
F2A
Spouses and unmarried children under 21 of lawful permanent residents.
F2B
Unmarried sons and daughters, age 21 or older, of lawful permanent residents.
F3
Married sons and daughters of U.S. citizens.
F4
Brothers and sisters of adult U.S. citizens.

Which country to choose

The bulletin lists China, India, Mexico and the Philippines separately; everyone else uses “All other countries.” The relevant country is usually the country of birth, not citizenship, though exceptions exist.

Privacy

With JavaScript on, the calculation runs in your browser and your date is never sent to this site; only the category and country are requested, to draw the history chart. Without JavaScript the form is sent to the server, used once to build the answer, and not logged or stored.

Not legal advice. This is general information from public government records. For advice about your own case, speak to a qualified immigration attorney.