The current July 2026 Indian EB-3 priority date (final action date) is 01 Jan 2014, and the Dates for Filing cutoff is 15 Jan 2015. Over the past year the cutoff advanced roughly 254 days. This page shows the EB-3 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 (15 Jan 2015) is estimated to become current around January 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.