F2B Visa Bulletin: adult unmarried sons and daughters of green card holders, every cut-off since 2002

Every F2B retrogression since 2002

• All other countries: January 2011 (25.6 months)
• China (mainland-born): January 2011 (25.6 months)
• India: August 2007 (2.0 months), January 2011 (25.6 months)
• Mexico: August 2004 (2.5 months), September 2004 (3.0 months), July 2005 (14.4 months), May 2006 (5.5 months), June 2012 (11.0 months), February 2014 (11.0 months)
• Philippines: August 2006 (43.2 months), December 2010 (30.0 months), January 2011 (9.6 months), December 2017 (6.0 months)

Who can use F2B

F2B is the family-sponsored preference for unmarried sons and daughters (21 or older) of permanent residents. Its annual limit is 23 % of the second preference (about 26,300). 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 F2B 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 F2B line for most countries cleared 9.4 mo/yr, while Mexico cleared 24.4 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.