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F4 Philippines Green Card Wait Time

Brothers and Sisters of Adult U.S. Citizens, chargeability Philippines. Every Visa Bulletin from December 2001 to September 2026.

Final action date
Aug 22, 2007
September 2026 bulletin
Date for filing
Mar 22, 2008
September 2026
Current backlog
19.0 yr
bulletin month minus cutoff date
Pace, last 12 bulletins
+50 d
average movement per bulletin
Projected wait
10.7 yr
at the last 24 bulletins’ pace

How the F4 Philippines cutoff date has moved

198019902000201020202001-122026-09
F4 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 Aug 22, 2007 +21 days Mar 22, 2008
July 2026 Aug 1, 2007 +17 days Mar 22, 2008
June 2026 Jul 15, 2007 no movement Mar 22, 2008
May 2026 Jul 15, 2007 +164 days Mar 22, 2008
April 2026 Feb 1, 2007 +153 days Mar 22, 2008
March 2026 Sep 1, 2006 +41 days Jan 15, 2008
February 2026 Jul 22, 2006 no movement Jan 15, 2008
January 2026 Jul 22, 2006 +7 days Jan 15, 2008
December 2025 Jul 15, 2006 +115 days Jan 1, 2008
November 2025 Mar 22, 2006 no movement Jan 1, 2008
October 2025 Mar 22, 2006 +80 days Jan 1, 2008
September 2025 Jan 1, 2006 no movement Jan 1, 2008

When this category went backwards

The cutoff date for F4 Philippines has retrogressed 2 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
December 2010Apr 1, 1991Jan 1, 1988 -1186
July 2003Jan 15, 1982Feb 1, 1981 -348

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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