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About Watch My Date

The first authoritative archive of the U.S. Visa Bulletin.

For twenty-five years the priority-date system has moved in ways almost no one could see clearly. We built the record that makes it legible — every category, every country, traced cell by cell back to its government source.

305 months
September 2000 through today
36,961 dates
Every EB, F, and DV category
Daily updates
New bulletins added within hours
4.03M waiting
On the official immigrant-visa line

Why we exist

The green-card line is one of the most consequential queues in the world, and one of the least transparent.

Roughly four million people sit on the official immigrant-visa waiting list, and the line doesn't move evenly — about three-quarters of it comes from just ten countries, with Mexico alone carrying close to a third. For the person waiting, a single bulletin can mean years saved or years added. Yet the data has historically lived in scattered monthly PDFs, easy to publish and almost impossible to study over time.

Watch My Date turns that scattered record into a continuous, searchable history — so you can see not just where a cutoff sits this month, but how it has moved across two and a half decades.

What we do

We compile and visualize the publicly available U.S. Visa Bulletin and related immigration data into one continuous archive:

  • Complete coverage — every monthly bulletin from September 2000 to the present, 305 months and counting.
  • Every category and country — EB-1 through EB-5, F1 through F4, and the Diversity Visa, for all chargeability areas.
  • Movement over time — final-action and filing dates tracked month over month, so trends and reversals are visible at a glance.
  • Fresh data — new bulletins are added within hours of release by the Department of State.

Where the data comes from

Everything in the archive is drawn from openly available government sources — chiefly the U.S. Department of State and USCIS. The underlying figures are in the public domain; what we add is the selection, structuring, verification, and presentation that make them usable as a history rather than a stack of files.

We work hard to keep the archive accurate, but we don't warrant that it's error-free, and official records always govern. Spot something off? Tell us at corrections@watchmydate.com and we'll review it.

What we are — and what we're not

Watch My Date is an educational technology service, privately owned and independently operated by HiveCode LLC. We are not a law firm, and nothing on the site is legal advice. We have no affiliation, endorsement, or relationship with the U.S. government or any agency.

Priority dates move unpredictably. Our archive and tools are illustrative, never a prediction or guarantee. For advice about your own case, consult a licensed U.S. immigration attorney. The full terms are in our Disclaimer.

We track priority dates for people all over the world, and we treat the data you bring to the site with care. Today we show no third-party advertising and we don't sell your personal information — see our Privacy Policy for exactly how that works.

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