The employment-based visa queue stood at 856,662 people as of June 30, 2026, down from 878,542 as of March 31, 2026.

This counts the people in line at each observation, not what happened between them: the line grows with approvals and shrinks with visas issued, withdrawals and people who age out, and this file publishes none of those.

The queue has fallen for two straight observations recorded here, moving from 878,542 as of March 31, 2026 to 856,662 as of June 30, 2026.

This counts the people in this one cell at each observation. A change here is not a count of approvals or of visas issued: the file publishes neither.

Within this single cell the drop of 11,254 was proportionally the sharpest of any group tracked here, as of June 30, 2026.

These are counts at one instant, so they cannot be added across observations. This is the same queue as the country breakdown, split a second way: the two cannot be added together.

At 391,296 people, the 2nd (Advanced Degree Professional) category as of June 30, 2026 is the largest single slice of the queue, ahead of the 4th (Certain Special Immigrants) category's 216,678.

"Rest of the World" is not a country: it is everyone born outside the countries this file lists separately. These are counts at one instant, so they cannot be added across observations.

India's 491,773 people waiting as of June 30, 2026 compares with 71,779 for China, the next largest group listed separately.