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EB-4 Religious Workers Philippines Green Card Wait Time

Certain Religious Workers, chargeability Philippines. Every Visa Bulletin from December 2001 to September 2026.

Final action date
Dec 15, 2022
September 2026 bulletin
Date for filing
Jan 1, 2023
September 2026
Current backlog
3.7 yr
bulletin month minus cutoff date
Pace, last 12 bulletins
+15 d
average movement per bulletin
Projected wait
-
pace does not support a projection

How the EB-4 Religious Workers Philippines cutoff date has moved

200520102015202020252001-122026-09
EB-4 Religious Workers Philippines 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 Dec 15, 2022 +91 days Jan 1, 2023
July 2026 Sep 15, 2022 +62 days Jan 1, 2023
June 2026 Jul 15, 2022 no movement Jan 1, 2023
May 2026 Jul 15, 2022 no movement Jan 1, 2023
April 2026 Jul 15, 2022 +365 days Jan 1, 2023
March 2026 Jul 15, 2021 - Jan 1, 2023
February 2026 Unavailable - Unavailable
January 2026 Jan 1, 2021 +122 days Mar 15, 2021
December 2025 Sep 1, 2020 - Feb 15, 2021
November 2025 Unavailable - Unavailable
October 2025 Unavailable - Unavailable
September 2025 Unavailable - Feb 1, 2021

When this category went backwards

The cutoff date for EB-4 Religious Workers Philippines has retrogressed 11 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
February 2026Jan 1, 2021Unavailable became unavailable
April 2025Aug 1, 2019Unavailable became unavailable
March 2025Jan 1, 2021Aug 1, 2019 -519
January 2025Jan 1, 2021Unavailable became unavailable
October 2024Jan 1, 2021Unavailable became unavailable
April 2024Dec 1, 2019Unavailable became unavailable
December 2023Jan 1, 2019Unavailable became unavailable
October 2023Sep 1, 2018Unavailable became unavailable
April 2023Feb 1, 2022Sep 1, 2018 -1249
March 2023Jun 22, 2022Feb 1, 2022 -141
January 2023Jun 22, 2022Unavailable became unavailable

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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