F4 Visa Bulletin: brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens, every cut-off since 2002

Every F4 retrogression since 2002

• All other countries: February 2011 (24.0 months), September 2017 (28.2 months), February 2020 (7.1 months)
• China (mainland-born): August 2006 (10.0 months), February 2011 (24.0 months), June 2016 (6.6 months), September 2017 (28.2 months), February 2020 (7.1 months)
• India: February 2011 (24.0 months), June 2016 (30.6 months), September 2017 (20.7 months)
• Mexico: July 2005 (79.0 months), August 2006 (7.4 months), August 2007 (17.6 months), September 2007 (29.0 months), July 2010 (9.3 months), August 2010 (13.9 months), June 2015 (4.5 months), July 2019 (13.2 months)
• Philippines: December 2010 (39.0 months)

Who can use F4

F4 is the family-sponsored preference for brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens who are 21 or older. Its annual limit is 65,000 a year plus numbers F1–F3 do not use. 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 F4 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 F4 line for most countries cleared 11.0 mo/yr, while Mexico cleared 5.3 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.