Questions, answered.

Your priority date is your place in line for a green card. For employment-based cases it's usually the date your labor certification or petition was filed; for family-sponsored cases it's the date the petition was filed on your behalf.

Each month the State Department publishes cutoff dates in the Visa Bulletin. When the cutoff for your category and country passes your priority date, a visa number is available to you. Watching how those cutoffs move is what this site is built for.

Entirely from openly available government sources — chiefly the U.S. Department of State Visa Bulletin and USCIS. The underlying figures are public domain. What we add is the work of collecting, verifying, structuring, and presenting them as one continuous history.

Official records always govern. For authoritative figures, check travel.state.gov and uscis.gov.

Every monthly bulletin from September 2000 to the present — 305 months and growing, with 36,961 individual priority-date entries across every employment-based (EB-1–EB-5), family-sponsored (F1–F4), and Diversity Visa category, for all countries.

The State Department releases the Visa Bulletin monthly, typically a couple of weeks before the month it covers. We add each new bulletin to the archive within hours of its release, so what you see tracks the official source closely.

We work hard to keep the archive accurate and current, but we don't warrant that it's error-free, and you should verify anything important against the official source before relying on it.

If you spot an error, email corrections@watchmydate.com and we'll review it.

You can explore much of the site freely. An account lets you sign in to view the full bulletin history and tools. You can register with an email and password or sign in with Google — we only request the basics (openid email profile).

Parts of the service are free, and some features require a paid subscription. Plans, features, and prices are shown at sign-up. We may change what's free or paid over time. Full billing details are in our Terms of Service.

To use the trackers you enter things like a priority date, visa category, and country of chargeability. You decide what to enter — we don't require your name, case number, or any official identifier to use the archive.

No. Watch My Date is an educational service, not a law firm. Nothing here — no chart, forecast, or message — is legal advice, and using the site creates no attorney–client relationship, including on a paid plan. For advice about your own case, consult a licensed U.S. immigration attorney. See our Disclaimer.

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