American Dream In Trouble? US Visa Bulletin For May 2025 Brings Bad News For Indians

Washington:

Amid US President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, the American dream of thousands of Indians seems to be fading. The US Department of State recently released its Visa Bulletin for May 2025, which brought more bad news for Indian H-1B and green card hopefuls, as it shows a significant retrogression in the employment-based fifth preference (EB-5) category for Indians. 

Per the document, the EB-5 Unreserved category visa for Indians would move backward by over six months to May 1, 2019. China, on the other hand, remains on January 22, 2014.

“High demand and number use by India in the EB-5 unreserved visa categories, combined with increased Rest of World demand and number use, made it necessary to further retrogress the India final action date to hold number use within the maximum allowed under the FY-2025 annual limits,” the bulletin said.