Visa Bulletin for July 2025

The July Visa Bulletin has been released, introducing several updates compared to the previous month. USCIS has announced that for July 2025, applicants in all family-sponsored preference categories must use the Dates for Filing chart, while those in employment-based preference categories must use the Final Action Dates chart. According to the July 2025 Visa Bulletin, the Dates for Filing for the Second Preference (F2A) category has moved from February 1, 2025 to March 1, 2025 reflecting one month advancement. For the F2B category, the Dates for Filing remain unchanged at January 1, 2017. For employment-based filings, most categories remained the same except EB-3. The EB2 Final Action Date is still October 15, 2023. In the EB3 category, the Final Action Date moved from February 8, 2023 to April 1, 2023. Additionally, the Final Action Date for Other Workers continues to be May 22, 2021. This month's Visa Bulletin also confirms that the Diversity Immigrant category for Europe moved to 22,000 for August. 

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