October 2026 visa bulletin 'most disappointing': EB-2 is back for India but stuck in 2013; overall no good news

October visa bulletin 2026 offers no good news except that EB-2 is back for Indians in the new fiscal year. After much delay, the State Department published the October 2026 visa bulletin only two days before the Financial Year 2026 ends, creating a lot of confusion among immigration experts. This is the first visa bulletin for FY 2027, and immigration attorneys said they found it most disappointing. October visa bulletin resets the number of Green Cards as fresh slots are available at the beginning of the fiscal year and the unused numbers of visa also pass on to the next fiscal year. But no such indication was offered in the October 2026 visa bulletin and experts said the department might still be in the process of calculating the spillovers and more numbers would probably be added in the next bulletins.Immigration attorney Rahul Reddy said the department might get a clearer picture of spillovers by November. But without this, this remains the most disappointing October visa bulletin, he said.EB-1: The EB1 cutoff date for India advances to February 1, 2023. China’s cutoff date remains July 1, 2023. EB1 remains current for all other countries of chargeability.EB-2: EB-2 became una...