Visa Lawyer Blog
We are pleased to report that today the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs published the March 2025 Visa Bulletin.
In this blog post, we breakdown the movement of the employment-based and family-sponsored categories in the coming month.
USCIS Adjustment of Status
For employment-based preference categories, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has confirmed it will continue to use the Final Action Dates chart to determine filing eligibility for adjustment of status to permanent residence in the month of March.
For family-sponsored preference categories, USCIS will also continue to use the Dates for Filing chart to determine filing eligibility for adjustment of status to permanent residence in the month of March.
Please click here for more information.
Highlights of the March 2025 Visa Bulletin
At a Glance
What can we expect to see in the month of March?
Employment-Based Categories
Dates for Filing
- No change from previous month
Final Action Advancements & Retrogressions
EB-2 Members of the Professions and Aliens of Exceptional Ability
- EB-2 India will advance by more than six weeks to December 1, 2012
- EB-2 China will advance by two weeks to May 8, 2020
- EB-2 All other countries will advance by six weeks to May 15, 2023
EB-3 Professionals and Skilled Workers
- EB-3 India will advance by almost seven weeks to February 1, 2013
- EB-3 China will advance by one month to August 1, 2020
EB-3 Other Workers
- EB-3 India will advance by almost seven weeks to February 1, 2013
- EB-3 Philippines will advance by five weeks to January 15, 2021
- EB-3 All other countries will advance by almost two months to February 1, 2021
EB-4 Religious Workers
- EB-4 All countries retrogressed by seventeen months to August 1, 2019
