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Updated: October 18, 2026 F4 Philippines Green Card Backlog 2026 If you are a U.S. citizen with a brother or sister in the Philippines, you may be able to sponsor them for a Green Card. But there is a major obstacle: the F4 family immigration category has a long waiting list, and the process can take many years. The October 2026 Visa Bulletin shows that the F4 Philippines Final Action Date is May 15, 2008, while the Date for Filing is March 22, 2009. These dates help families

The October 2026 Visa Bulletin, Fully Decoded The State Department published the October 2026 Visa Bulletin on October 1, opening fiscal year 2027. We pulled the numbers below directly from the official bulletin text on travel.state.gov, Volume XI, Number 19, cross-checked against USCIS’s own filing-chart determination, not from a summary of a summary. Where other coverage of this bulletin disagrees on a date, and some does, it is almost always because one source is quoting t

Your child is almost 21. Your family has been waiting for a U.S. Green Card. Does turning 21 mean your child automatically loses the case? Not necessarily. For some family-based and employment-based immigration cases, the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) can protect a child from “aging out” at 21. But CSPA is not an automatic extension of childhood. The calculation depends on several dates in the immigration case, including the child’s date of birth, the petition’s processi

Last updated: September 16, 2026 If you are waiting for a U.S. Green Card through a family member or employer in the Philippines, the most important number in your case may be your priority date. But knowing your priority date is not enough. Philippines Green Card Waiting Time 2026: F1, F2B, F3, F4 and EB-3 Priority Dates Explained You also need to know: your immigration category; whether your case is family-based or employment-based; which Visa Bulletin chart applies; whethe

Two agencies in Milan took ₱39 million from 215 Filipino workers with a promise of Italian jobs that were never real. In the first eleven months of 2025 alone, the government shut down 85,538 Facebook and TikTok pages running the exact same scam. If you're planning to work abroad, the single most important thing you can do — before you send a resume, before you pay a fee, before you believe a promise — is spend five minutes verifying who you're actually dealing with. Here's e

Your EB-3 Philippines Window Is Still Open. The State Department Just Said It Won't Stay That Way. July 3, 2026 | United States | Green Card | Philippines | EB-3 | Visa Bulletin EB-3 Philippines held at August 1, 2023 in July — but the State Department warned retrogression or unavailability is coming before September 30. EB-1 Philippines is Current right now. Here's your action plan before the window closes. If you are a Filipino professional waiting for your EB-3 green card,