August 2026 Visa Bulletin: Official Cutoff Dates & USCIS Chart

Every employment-based and family-based category page plus a monthly archive of each Visa Bulletin: official cutoffs, Chart A vs Chart B, movement history, and DOS and USCIS source links.

EB-1 India Visa Bulletin cutoffs, Chart A / Chart B comparison, movement history, and official sources.

EB-1 China Visa Bulletin cutoffs, Chart A / Chart B comparison, movement history, and official sources.

EB-1 Worldwide Visa Bulletin cutoffs, Chart A / Chart B comparison, movement history, and official sources.

EB-2 India Visa Bulletin cutoffs, Chart A / Chart B comparison, movement history, and official sources.

On August 27, 2026, DHS's proposed rule to eliminate the 60-day grace period for H-1B, L-1, O-1, TN, and E-category workers cleared White House regulatory review. The NPRM can now be published in the Federal Register any day. This is different from the existing grace-period enforcement problem — this would end the grace period in regulation.

Two days before the $103,265 fee proposal hit the Federal Register, DHS submitted a separate H-1B overhaul rule to the White House for review. RIN 1615-AD00 targets cap exemption eligibility, employer violations, and third-party placements — program integrity questions that affect a different set of people than the fee.

U.S. officials confirmed on August 24 that the State Department is preparing to revoke the B-1/B-2 visas of up to 200,000 people who filed for asylum. This would be the largest mass visa revocation in U.S. history. Here is who is in scope, who is not, and what the intersection with pending employment-based cases looks like.