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Know when your priority date is about to move backward

A free email after each monthly Visa Bulletin: which employment-based dates moved, which went backward, and how often the coming month has gone wrong before.

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September in the record

In 11 of 24 Septembers on record, at least one employment-based priority date moved backward.

avg 27%

Oct 1: new fiscal-year quota

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12
8
12
28
40
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52
46
41
13
16
% of months with at least one retrogression. The hump straddles the fiscal-year end: annual quotas run out in summer; the new year's numbers arrive October 1.

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What each email covers

Every number comes from the official Visa Bulletin archive at travel.state.gov.