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June 2026 Visa Bulletin: USCIS uses Final Action Dates chart for all employment-based filings

USCIS will require employment-based adjustment-of-status filers to use the Final Action Dates chart in June 2026. EB-2 India retrogresses by more than 10 months and EB-1 India retrogresses by about 3.5 months; EB-3 China and EB-3 India advance modestly.

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The State Department published the June 2026 Visa Bulletin on May 14, and USCIS confirmed it will use the Final Action Dates (FAD) chart — not the Dates for Filing (DFF) chart — for all employment-based adjustment-of-status filings in June 2026.

The most consequential movement is in the India-chargeability employment-based categories: EB-2 India retrogresses by more than 10 months and EB-1 India retrogresses by about 3.5 months. EB-3 Professionals and Skilled Workers advance by roughly six weeks for China and one month for India. The State Department flagged that further retrogression is possible later in the fiscal year as demand materializes against the annual numerical limits.

Family-based categories continue to use their own movement schedule; refer to the bulletin directly for the current cutoffs.

Why it matters here

Whether USCIS honors FAD or DFF determines whether you can file an I-485 this month at all. CasePredictor pulls the bulletin movement directly into the Visa Bulletin tracker and the ETA Calculator's composite EB timeline — if your priority date is now behind the cutoff, the calculator will surface the projected wait until your category becomes current again.

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