The December 2024 Priority Dates

The December 2024 Priority Dates

Each month, the Visa Office of the State Department publishes, in the Visa Bulletin, the priority dates for that particular month for the various family and employment-based categories. A priority date is a person’s “place in line” for a visa, meaning immigrant visas (or green cards) would be available for persons whose priority date is earlier than the cut-off dates listed below in the Visa Issuance or Final Action Date column. If your priority date was “current,” but later retrogressed (or “moved backwards” and became unavailable) before your immigrant visa was issued (or before you adjusted status in the U.S.), you would have to wait until it becomes current again. “Caution: if your Final Action/Visa Issuance date has been current for more than a year, and you were notified by the NVC, but did not respond, you could risk your case being canceled or terminated.”

The priority dates for the Philippines for December 2024 are:

FAMILY CATEGORY: Application Filing
Date
Visa Issuance
Date
First Preference Unmarried sons and daughters of U.S. citizens (21 years old or older) April 22, 2015 March 1, 2012
Second Preference (2A) Spouse and minor children
(below 21 years old) of green card holders
July 15, 2024 January 1, 2022
  (2B) Unmarried sons and daughters
(21 years old or older) of green card holders
October 1, 2013 October 22, 2011
Third Preference Married sons and daughters of U.S. Citizens May 8, 2004 September 8, 2002
Fourth Preference Brothers and sisters of U.S. Citizens July 22, 2007 February 1, 2004
LABOR CERTIFICATION: Application Filing
Date
Visa Issuance
Date
Second Preference Advanced Degree (Masters) August 1, 2023 March 15, 2023
Third Preference Professional/
Skilled Workers
March 1, 2023 November 15, 2022
Other workers Non-Skilled Workers May 22, 2021 December 1, 2020

 

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