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Our data
greencardline holds all 295 Visa Bulletins from December 2001 to November 2026 (22,415 published dates), and 2,430 USCIS processing-time recordings across 496 form, category and office combinations since October 17, 2026, plus Department of Labor and National Visa Center timeframes since October 17, 2026.
Official immigration numbers are mostly published as a current value only. We record them on a fixed schedule and keep every version, so the history can be checked, charted and cited.
What the archive holds
| Data | Published by | How often we record it | Since | Held | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visa Bulletin, every issue | U.S. Department of State | Checked daily; a new or revised bulletin is recorded the day it appears | December 2001 (back issues from the State Department's own archive) | 295 bulletins | CSV |
| USCIS processing times | USCIS | Weekly: every form, category and office USCIS publishes | October 17, 2026 | 5 weekly recordings of 496 combinations | CSV |
| PERM and prevailing wage processing | U.S. Department of Labor | Checked daily; a new copy is kept whenever DOL updates | October 17, 2026 | 11 versions | CSV |
| NVC timeframes | U.S. Department of State | Weekly | October 17, 2026 | 5 versions | — |
| Immigrant visa interview scheduling, by post | U.S. Department of State | Weekly | October 23, 2026 | 143 posts | CSV |
Each data name links to the official page it is recorded from. Data last recorded November 10, 2026. More tables, each with its own CSV: Form I-140 receipt dates for a case inquiry, by category (USCIS) · Immigrant visa interview scheduling by U.S. embassy and consulate (State Department IV Scheduling Status Tool) · Prevailing wage determination processing times by program (U.S. Department of Labor, FLAG) · Prevailing wage requests still waiting, by program and month filed (U.S. Department of Labor, FLAG) · Visa Bulletin 12-month movement · Visa Bulletin movement statistics.
Archived copies
For each of the 295 Visa Bulletins we keep the page as we archived it from travel.state.gov. Each bulletin page on this site links to its copy, and the manifest lists every copy with the official address, the time we archived it, its size and its SHA-256 fingerprint, so anyone can confirm a copy has not changed since.
For USCIS, Department of Labor and NVC data, which change in place on the agencies' sites, the CSV downloads above hold every version we recorded.
Method
- An automated archive on our own server visits each official page on the schedule above and saves what it receives. When nothing changed, it records only that the page was checked.
- Numbers are parsed from those saved pages, never typed by hand. The site is rebuilt from the archive every day at 00:19 UTC, and within minutes when a new Visa Bulletin appears.
- Before an update goes live, three checks must pass: the data has not shrunk unexpectedly, every quote in the explainers still matches the archived official text, and every page carries its sources and the disclaimer.
- For sources published only as a current value, our history starts on the day recording began, shown in the table. Earlier Visa Bulletins come from the State Department's own back issues.
- If a source cannot be read, pages keep the last value with its date instead of guessing. More detail: how the data is collected.
Cite this data
Suggested citations (use the day you downloaded the data):
greencardline. Visa Bulletin archive, December 2001–November 2026 [Data set]. Compiled from U.S. Department of State, Visa Bulletin. Retrieved November 10, 2026, from https://greencardline.com/our-data/
greencardline. USCIS processing times by form, category and office, recorded weekly since October 17, 2026 [Data set]. Compiled from USCIS, Check Case Processing Times. Retrieved November 10, 2026, from https://greencardline.com/our-data/
For a single table, use the "Cite or embed this data" box under it, or link the page itself.
License
- The underlying figures and quoted text are works of U.S. federal agencies, which are not subject to copyright in the United States.
- greencardline's archive, history tables, charts and calculations are free to reuse under CC BY 4.0: credit "greencardline" and link to the page you used or to this page.
- This is official data organized by an independent website. It is not legal advice and not a government publication.
Questions and corrections
Email [email protected]. Fixes are listed in the corrections log, new data and features in the changelog. Journalists: monthly findings are on Visa Bulletin data for journalists.