{"id":1008231,"date":"2026-05-16T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008231"},"modified":"2026-05-16T12:00:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:30:51","slug":"bad-news-for-indian-green-card-applicants-final-action-dates-for-eb-1-eb-2-retrogress-in-june-2026-visa-bulletin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/16\/bad-news-for-indian-green-card-applicants-final-action-dates-for-eb-1-eb-2-retrogress-in-june-2026-visa-bulletin\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad news for Indian Green Card applicants: Final Action Dates for EB-1, EB-2 retrogress in June 2026 visa bulletin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The June 2026 visa bulletin published by the State Department offered little to no hope for Indian Green Card hopefuls as the queue became longer, increasing the waiting time. To break it down, India&#8217;s Final Action Date for the EB-1 category moved back by three and a half months to December 15, 2022. In the EB-2 category, India&#8217;s Final Action Date retrogresses by more than 10 months to September 1, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>What are EB-1 and EB-2?<\/p>\n<p>EB-1 and EB-2 are the two employment-based Green Card categories in the US immigration system. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The June 2026 visa bulletin published by the State Department offered little to no hope for Indian Green Card hopefuls as the queue became longer, increasing the waiting time. To break it down, India&#8217;s Final Action Date for the EB-1 category moved back by three and a half months to December 15, 2022. In the EB-2 category, India&#8217;s Final Action Date retrogresses by more than 10 months to September 1, 2013. What are EB-1 and EB-2? EB-1 and EB-2 are the two employment-based Green Card categories in the US immigration system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008236,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008231\/revisions\/1008236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}