The November 2026 Visa Bulletin File for Pakistani Families (2026–2027): The 22 October 2026 Release That Advanced F1, F2B, F3 and F4 by a Full Year for Worldwide Applicants — F4 Now at 22 October 2012 Final Action, F1 at 22 January 2021, USCIS Using Dates for Filing for Both Charts — and How to Actually Read the Two-Chart System
By Huzi
File #942 · 4 min read
The November 2026 Visa Bulletin, released 22 October 2026, moved the worldwide family-sponsored lines forward a full year in a single month — with no retrogression anywhere in the table.
The quick answer: for Pakistani families — the Worldwide/All Other pool — the headline is the F-lines: F1 at 22 January 2021, F2A at 22 October 2026, F2B at 22 August 2020, F3 at 22 October 2015 and F4 at 22 October 2012 final action, filing dates a month deeper in every category. A sibling petition waiting since 2012 is, this month, a year closer than in October.
The worldwide lines in numbers
| The line | Final Action (Chart A) | Dates for Filing (Chart B) | The November move |
|---|---|---|---|
| F1 — unmarried adult children of citizens | 22 Jan 2021 | 1 Feb 2021 | +1 year |
| F2A — spouses and children of residents | 22 Oct 2026 | Current | +1 month |
| F2B — unmarried adult children of residents | 22 Aug 2020 | 1 Sep 2020 | +1 year |
| F3 — married children of citizens | 22 Oct 2015 | 1 Nov 2015 | +1 year |
| F4 — siblings of adult citizens | 22 Oct 2012 | 1 Nov 2012 | +1 year |
| EB-1 / EB-2 / EB-3 (Worldwide) | EB-1 current; EB-2 1 Apr 2025; EB-3 15 Jun 2024 | — | EB-2 +3 months; EB-3 +1 month |
How to actually read the two charts
- Chart A — Final Action Dates decides when a green card is issued: the interview abroad concludes, or an I-485 inside the United States is approved.
- Chart B — Dates for Filing decides earlier steps. For November 2026, USCIS is accepting I-485 filings under Chart B for both family and employment cases — and the filing-date chart governs when the NVC begins a case from Pakistan: the fee bill, the DS-260, the civil documents.
- The sequence for a Pakistan case: the I-130 establishes the priority date — the day the petition was received — and it travels through the queue with the case: across the filing line, NVC work starts; across the final-action line, the interview is scheduled.
What a one-year jump really means
The F4 sibling line is the one most families know: the worldwide final-action cut-off of 22 October 2012 means petitions filed that month are now reaching interviews. A one-year advance clears a year of queue in a single bulletin — the movement the DV lottery file points to when steering Pakistanis toward the real, if slow, lines. Employment-based moved quieter but real: EB-2 worldwide to 1 April 2025, EB-3 to 15 June 2024, EB-1 current, EB-5 set-asides current.
The discipline that keeps a file alive in queue
- Update the NVC the moment anything changes — addresses, marital status, a child turning 21 (its own CSPA clock).
- Prepare civil documents early: the police clearance certificate is mapped in the character-certificate guide — plus birth and marriage records, gathered before the date turns.
- Keep every page of the paper trail — the habit the attestation file teaches for Gulf paperwork and the approval-ladder file generalises for every embassy.
- Do not confuse this with the visit line — the B1/B2 file covers the $435 tourist stack; this is the immigrant queue, where the wait is the price.
Pro tip: read the bulletin the day it drops — a month that advances a year is the month to finally submit the I-130 sitting in the drawer.
Ye bulletin har mahine aata hai, magar is baar family wali lines mein saal bhar ka jump tha — F1, F2B, F3 aur F4 sab ek saal aage. Asal baat do charts ki samajh hai: filing date se NVC ka kaam shuru hota hai, final action date se interview. Apni priority date ka record rakhein, documents pehle tayyar rakhein, aur har mahine ki tarikh par nazar rakhein — qatar mein sone se behtar hai.
Waiting by calendar is a mercy the bulletins measure; Palestine's wait has no chart at all. Gaza's families queue for water while the occupier decides, generation after generation, who may leave, who may return, who may simply remain alive in the home they were born in. Ya Allah, advance the day Palestine's waiting ends, reunite its scattered families across every border that divides them, and return its people the future no bulletin ever scheduled for them. Sudan's displaced wait with no date at all — their files are the bundles they carried, their appointments the rain. Ya Rab, write Sudan's next season in peace, bring its families home, and let the waiting there end without another April taken by war.
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