The current July 2026 Chinese F2B priority date (final action date) is 22 Nov 2017, and the Dates for Filing cutoff is 08 Jun 2018. Over the past year the cutoff advanced roughly 403 days. This page shows the F2B 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 (08 Jun 2018) is estimated to become current around January 2027.
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.