F2A Visa Bulletin: spouses and children of green card holders, every cut-off since 2002

Every F2A retrogression since 2002

• All other countries: June 2006 (10.3 months), July 2006 (19.7 months), January 2011 (31.0 months), March 2011 (12.0 months), June 2014 (16.3 months), April 2023 (29.7 months), August 2023 (35.0 months)
• China (mainland-born): June 2006 (10.3 months), July 2006 (19.7 months), January 2011 (31.0 months), March 2011 (12.0 months), June 2014 (16.3 months), April 2023 (29.7 months), August 2023 (35.0 months)
• India: June 2006 (10.3 months), July 2006 (19.7 months), January 2011 (31.0 months), March 2011 (12.0 months), June 2014 (16.3 months), April 2023 (29.7 months), August 2023 (35.0 months)
• Mexico: January 2011 (59.0 months), March 2014 (16.6 months), June 2014 (13.0 months), August 2022 (38.3 months), April 2023 (51.9 months), August 2023 (26.0 months)
• Philippines: June 2006 (10.3 months), July 2006 (19.7 months), January 2011 (31.0 months), March 2011 (12.0 months), June 2014 (16.3 months), April 2023 (29.7 months), August 2023 (35.0 months)

Who can use F2A

F2A is the family-sponsored preference for spouses and unmarried children under 21 of permanent residents. Its annual limit is 77 % of the second preference (about 87,900), three quarters of it exempt from the per-country limit. The petitioner files Form I-130; the priority date is the day USCIS received it.

Your column is your country of chargeability, normally the country of birth. A green card in F2A becomes possible in the month the final action date for your column passes your priority date; until then the case waits at USCIS or the National Visa Center.

What the history says about the next months

A line's past speed is the best simple guide to its future, and the State Department itself plans with it. Over the last five years the F2A line for most countries cleared 20.7 mo/yr, while Mexico cleared 19.9 mo/yr. Speeds change when demand changes – a surge of new petitions, a change in the law, unused numbers falling from another category in October – so treat any projection as a range, not a date.