The current July 2026 Indian F4 priority date (final action date) is 01 Nov 2006, and the Dates for Filing cutoff is 15 Dec 2006. Over the past year the cutoff advanced roughly 116 days. This page shows the F4 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 Dec 2006) is estimated to become current around December 2026.
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.