The State Department, working with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, has issued all available immigrant visas in the Employment-Based Second Preference (EB-2) category for applicants chargeable to India for fiscal year 2026, the department announced. The exhaustion of visas follows the statutory limits set by the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
Under INA 203(b)(2), the annual limit for EB-2 visas is 28.6 percent of the worldwide employment limit. Additionally, INA 202(a)(2) establishes that natives of any single foreign state may not receive more than seven percent of the total of employment-based and family-sponsored visas, a cap that is prorated among the different visa categories under INA 202(e).
Because all available EB-2 visas for applicants chargeable to India in FY 2026 have been used, embassies and consulates may not issue visas in these cases for the remainder of the fiscal year, the State Department said. The annual limits will reset with the start of the new fiscal year (FY 2027) on October 1, 2026. At that point, embassies and consulates may resume issuing immigrant visas in this category to qualified applicants.
No official response from USCIS or the State Department beyond the published notice is reported in the source account.
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