The Department of State has released the May 2024 Visa Bulletin. D&S provides a Monthly Summary of the employment-based priority dates. In May 2024, USCIS will accept employment-based adjustment of status applications based on the Final Action Dates For Employment-Based Preference chart. To be eligible to file an adjustment of status application in May 2024, foreign nationals must have a priority date that is earlier than that listed on the Final Action Dates chart.

The EB-1 Final Action Date for India will remain at March 1, 2012, and the Final Action Date for China will remain at September 1, 2022. All other countries will remain current.

The EB-2 Final Action Date for India will remain at April 15, 2021 and China will remain at February 1, 2020. All other countries will remain at January 15, 2023.

The EB-3 Professional/Skilled Worker Final Action Date for India will remain at August 15, 2012, and China will remain at September 1, 2020. All other countries will remain at November 22, 2022.

The Final Action Dates for all EB-4 will remain at November 1, 2020 for all countries. In addition, with respect to the Final Action Date for the EB-5 Unreserved categories, India will remain at December 1, 2020, while China will remain at December 15, 2015. All other countries will remain current. The EB-5 “Set-Aside” categories (Rural, High unemployment, and Infrastructure) will remain current for all countries.

The State Department projects “very little to no forward movement” in employment-based immigrant visa categories in the coming months, due to the fact that many employment-based Final Action dates advanced in the April 2024 Visa Bulletin.