What the Section H Warning Means for India EB-5 Investors

Section H of the June 2026 Visa Bulletin tells India-born EB-5 investors that the July bulletin may retrogress India unreserved or declare it "unavailable" for the month. That sentence at the back of the bulletin is the most consequential thing the Department of State has published about India EB-5 in 2026. It tells practitioners and investors what to expect 9 to 14 days before the July bulletin drops. This article explains what the Section H text actually says, what retrogression and "unavailable" mean in case-level operational terms, and what India-born investors should do between now and the July bulletin publication date. ## What Section H is and why it matters Section H sits at the end of every monthly visa bulletin. It contains forward-looking text from the Visa Office, typically including: which categories the office expects to retrogress or hold flat in upcoming bulletins, why certain categories moved (or did...