The current July 2026 Chinese EB-3 priority date (final action date) is 22 Dec 2021, and the Dates for Filing cutoff is 01 Jan 2022. Over the past year the cutoff advanced roughly 386 days. This page shows the EB-3 China 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 Jan 2022) is estimated to become current around July 2026.
Per-country caps limit each country to roughly 7% of the annual green cards in each category. Demand from China far exceeds that share, which creates a queue measured in years — sometimes decades — even while smaller countries stay current.