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EB-3 Other Workers All Other Green Card Wait Time

Other Workers, chargeability All Chargeability Areas Except Those Listed. Every Visa Bulletin from December 2001 to September 2026.

Final action date
Apr 1, 2022
September 2026 bulletin
Date for filing
Aug 1, 2022
September 2026
Current backlog
4.4 yr
bulletin month minus cutoff date
Pace, last 12 bulletins
+22 d
average movement per bulletin
Projected wait
7.1 yr
at the last 24 bulletins’ pace

How the EB-3 Other Workers All Other cutoff date has moved

2000200520102015202020252001-122026-09
EB-3 Other Workers All Other final action dates, December 2001 to September 2026. The solid line is the published cutoff date. The dashed line is the bulletin's own month, so the vertical distance between them is the size of the backlog at that moment. Months shown as Current or Unavailable have no cutoff date and are skipped.

The last twelve bulletins

BulletinFinal action dateMovedDate for filing
September 2026 Apr 1, 2022 +31 days Aug 1, 2022
July 2026 Mar 1, 2022 +28 days Aug 1, 2022
June 2026 Feb 1, 2022 no movement Aug 1, 2022
May 2026 Feb 1, 2022 +92 days Aug 1, 2022
April 2026 Nov 1, 2021 no movement Aug 1, 2022
March 2026 Nov 1, 2021 +61 days Jun 22, 2022
February 2026 Sep 1, 2021 no movement Dec 1, 2021
January 2026 Sep 1, 2021 +31 days Dec 1, 2021
December 2025 Aug 1, 2021 +17 days Dec 1, 2021
November 2025 Jul 15, 2021 no movement Dec 1, 2021
October 2025 Jul 15, 2021 +7 days Dec 1, 2021
September 2025 Jul 8, 2021 no movement Jul 22, 2021

When this category went backwards

The cutoff date for EB-3 Other Workers All Other has retrogressed 12 times in the published record. A retrogression means the State Department pulled the date back, so people who were about to become eligible went back into the queue.

BulletinFromToDays lost
September 2024Jan 1, 2021Dec 1, 2020 -31
February 2023Jun 1, 2020Jan 1, 2020 -152
June 2014Oct 1, 2012Apr 1, 2011 -549
May 2009Mar 1, 2001Unavailable became unavailable
April 2009Mar 15, 2003Mar 1, 2001 -744
August 2008Jan 1, 2003Unavailable became unavailable
July 2007Oct 1, 2001Unavailable became unavailable
May 2007Oct 1, 2001Unavailable became unavailable
June 2006Oct 1, 2000Unavailable became unavailable
May 2006Oct 1, 2001Oct 1, 2000 -365
July 2005Jan 1, 1999Unavailable became unavailable
June 2005Jul 1, 2001Jan 1, 1999 -912

Where these numbers come from

Final action dates and dates for filing are taken from the monthly Visa Bulletin published by the U.S. Department of State. Each bulletin is parsed into a machine-readable record and checked against the published page before it is committed, so the series here is the bulletin's own wording, not a restatement of it. The movement and backlog columns are arithmetic on those dates and are described on the methodology page.

Source

Every date on this page comes from the September 2026 Visa Bulletin published by the U.S. Department of State. Nothing here is estimated, interpolated or filled in, and the designations Current and Unavailable are reproduced exactly as printed.

This bulletin as published.

Backlog years, pace and projections are arithmetic on those dates and are described on the methodology page. Corrections: [email protected].

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