El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras in the Visa Bulletin
Enter your category and priority date: people born in these three countries use the worldwide column this month, shown in the table below.
Checked by Radif Partners · Editorial policy · Method and past error
Likely current
June 2027 – November 2029
Middle estimate April 2028 · 8 months behind the cutoff
| Final Action Date | October 22, 2011 |
|---|---|
| Date for Filing | November 1, 2011 |
| I-485 this month (USCIS uses Dates for Filing) | Not yet |
| Past error at 6 months behind (our model) | ±5 mo., range held 55 % |
| I-485 family, national average (August 2026) | 12.4 months |
| Government fees (paper filing, with work permit and travel permit) | $3,005 |
How this was calculated
- The October 2026 Final Action Date for F4, All other countries, is October 22, 2011; your priority date is June 15, 2012, 8 months later.
- For each of the 120 months of the last 10 years, we measured how long this cutoff took to move forward by that same distance. Half the cases took 1 year 6 months; 20% took 8 months or less; 80% took 3 years 1 month or less.
- Back-test from October 2012 to October 2025: for people 6 months behind, the middle estimate was off by a median of 5 months (a naive “last 12 months” rule: 6), and the range held the real date 55 % of the time. That passes our publication rule.
- Fees: I-130 $675 + I-485 $1,440 + I-765 $260 + I-131 $630 (USCIS Form G-1055, edition 10/07/26, and State Department visa fees).
Estimate from public data, not legal advice. Your case may differ (cross-chargeability, CSPA, waivers). For advice, see a licensed immigration attorney or a DOJ-accredited representative. Not affiliated with USCIS or the Department of State. Method and past error
El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras share one column in the Visa Bulletin when they get one, and in the 2026 bulletins they do not: people born in these three countries use the worldwide dates in every family and employment category. The archive shows the shared column in 83 bulletins, from May 2016 to March 2023, and only in the employment table. In all those months it differed from the worldwide date only in EB-4, the category for certain special immigrants, and in its religious worker subcategory. When the column first appeared, EB-4 was current for the rest of the world while the three countries were held to January 1, 2010; in its last month the gap was March 15, 2018 against February 1, 2022. The worldwide EB-4 Final Action Date is now December 15, 2022. A country gets its own column only when its demand in a category passes the 7% per-country limit.
A column that came and went
From May 2016 to March 2023 the employment table of the bulletin carried a column headed El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. We count it in 83 bulletins. The family table never had it: relatives of citizens and green card holders born in these countries always used the worldwide dates. Inside the employment table, the column matched the worldwide date in every row except EB-4 and its religious worker line.
What the EB-4 dates looked like
In May 2016, the first month of the column, the worldwide EB-4 cell read Current (C) and the three-country cell read January 1, 2010. By March 2023, the last month, the worldwide cell read February 1, 2022 and the three-country cell March 15, 2018, a gap of about 3.9 years. The bulletin after that dropped the column, and the three countries moved onto the worldwide line. The EB-4 page follows the category since then.
October 2026: the worldwide dates apply
This month there is no separate column. A Salvadoran, Guatemalan or Honduran applicant reads the worldwide cell: EB-4 at December 15, 2022 for final action and January 1, 2025 for filing, F4 siblings at October 22, 2011, F3 married children at October 22, 2014, F2A at September 22, 2026. The full worldwide row is in the table below.
Why a column appears
The Immigration and Nationality Act limits any single country to 7 % of the preference numbers each year, 25,620 visas. When demand from a country in one category would pass that line, the State Department gives it a separate cutoff. For these three countries that happened once, in EB-4. Nothing in the data says it will or will not happen again. How the per-country cap works; monthly Visa Bulletin.
Every category for All other countries, October 2026
| Category | Final Action | Dates for Filing | Rest of the world | Change this month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F1 | January 22, 2020 | February 1, 2020 | January 22, 2020 | no change |
| F2A | September 22, 2026 | Current (C) | September 22, 2026 | ▲ 31 days |
| F2B | August 22, 2019 | September 1, 2019 | August 22, 2019 | no change |
| F3 | October 22, 2014 | November 1, 2014 | October 22, 2014 | no change |
| F4 | October 22, 2011 | November 1, 2011 | October 22, 2011 | no change |
| EB-1 | Current (C) | Current (C) | Current (C) | ▲ 30 days |
| EB-2 | January 1, 2025 | March 15, 2026 | January 1, 2025 | ▼ 608 days |
| EB-3 | May 15, 2024 | August 1, 2024 | May 15, 2024 | ▼ 109 days |
| EB-3 Other Workers | January 1, 2022 | June 1, 2022 | January 1, 2022 | ▼ 90 days |
| EB-4 | December 15, 2022 | January 1, 2025 | December 15, 2022 | no change |
| EB-5 | Current (C) | Current (C) | Current (C) | ▲ 30 days |