On March 11th, the U.S. released the April 2013 visa bulletin, which is available at . Although there were no surprises in priority date movement, there was forward progression in most of the Employment-based categories.

Major changes in priority date movement in the Employment-based categories include EB-2 China moving from February 15, 2008 to April 1, 2008. However, EB-2 India saw no movement. Also EB-3 All Chargeability Areas (commonly known as "rest-of-the-world") and EB-3 Mexico moved from May 1, 2007 to July 1, 2007. In addition, EB-3 China moved from January 22, 2007 to April 22, 2007.