After much delay, the State Department published the October 2026 visa bulletin only two days before the Financial Year 2026 ends, creating a lot of confusion among immigration experts. This is the first visa bulletin for FY 2027, and immigration attorneys said they found it most disappointing. October visa bulletin resets the number of Green Cards as fresh slots are available at the beginning of the fiscal year and the unused numbers of visa also pass on to the next fiscal year. But no such indication was offered in the October 2026 visa bulletin and experts said the department might still be in the process of calculating the spillovers and more numbers would probably be added in the next bulletins.
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