The current July 2026 Indian EB-1 priority date (final action date) is 15 Oct 2022, and the Dates for Filing cutoff is 01 Dec 2023. Over the past year the cutoff advanced roughly 242 days, with 2 retrogressions along the way. This page shows the EB-1 India cutoff each month, its 10-year history, and an estimate of when a given priority date becomes current.
Used to decide when a green card can actually be issued.
May let adjustment-of-status applicants file earlier when USCIS allows this chart.
At the average pace of the last 12 months, someone at the current Dates-for-Filing point (01 Dec 2023) is estimated to become current around March 2028.
Per-country caps limit each country to roughly 7% of the annual green cards in each category. Demand from India far exceeds that share, which creates a queue measured in years — sometimes decades — even while smaller countries stay current.