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The Department of State released the August 2024 Visa Bulletin. USCIS will continue to accept employment-based Adjustment of Status applications based on the Final Action Dates chart. Most Employment-Based Categories hold...more
The Department of State released the April 2024 Visa Bulletin. USCIS will continue to accept employment-based Adjustment of Status applications based on the Final Action Dates chart. Most employment-based categories will...more
The Department of State released the March 2024 Visa Bulletin. In March, USCIS will accept employment-based Adjustment of Status applications based on the more modest Final Action Dates chart for the first time this fiscal...more
The October 2023 Visa Bulletin has been released by the U.S. Department of State and shows some encouraging movement forward from last month, with the exception of the filing date for EB-3 worldwide, which will retrogress...more
The Department of State released the July 2023 Visa Bulletin. Most Employment-Based Categories will hold steady with the exception of EB-3 Worldwide, EB-3 India, and Other Workers India: - USCIS will continue to accept...more
The Department of State released the June 2023 Visa Bulletin. Most employment-based categories will hold steady with the exception of EB-5 India and China Other Workers: - USCIS will continue to accept employment-based...more
The Department of State released the January 2023 Visa Bulletin. As forecasted in our Fiscal Year 2023 visa availability analysis, we are now seeing the retrogression for Indian and Chinese nationals in the EB-1 category....more
In the May 2022 Visa Bulletin, India EB-2 Final Action dates advance by two months, while China EB-2 Final Action dates remain unchanged. The US Department of State has released its May 2022 Visa Bulletin, outlining...more
The EB-1 priority date cutoff is once again “Current” for all classifications, including China and India. The US Department of State has released its April 2021 Visa Bulletin, outlining per-country priority date cutoffs that...more
The Department of State released the January 2021 Visa Bulletin. In a departure from the last three months, USCIS has indicated that employment-based adjustment of status applicants must follow the Final Action Dates chart....more
USCIS will use Final Action chart in January 2021, and EB classifications will retrogress for China and India. The US Department of State has released its January 2021 Visa Bulletin, outlining per-country priority date...more
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) released its October 2020 Visa Bulletin reflecting significant advancement of priority dates in certain immigrant visa categories. Following the release of the bulletin, U.S. Citizenship and...more
EB-1 advances by three weeks for China and India. All others remain unchanged. The US Department of State has released its September 2020 Visa Bulletin outlining per-country priority date cutoffs that regulate immigrant...more
In the February 2020 Visa Bulletin issued by the US Department of State, EB-2 worldwide employment-based classifications, excluding China and India, remain available and current. This month’s Dates for Filing Chart did not...more
In the January 2020 visa bulletin issued by the US Department of State, EB-2 worldwide employment-based classifications, excluding China and India, remain available and current. EB-1 cutoff dates for all countries, except...more
In the December 2019 Visa Bulletin issued by the US Department of State, EB-2 worldwide employment-based classifications, excluding China and India, remain available and current. EB-1 dates for all countries except India saw...more
In the November 2019 visa bulletin issued by the US Department of State, EB-2 and EB-3 worldwide employment-based classifications, excluding China and India, remain available and current....more
In the October 2019 Visa Bulletin issued by the US Department of State, EB-2 and EB-3 worldwide employment-based classifications, excluding China and India, are once again available and current....more
In the September 2019 Visa Bulletin issued by the US Department of State, all employment-based classifications are again backlogged. The US Department of State has released its September 2019 Visa Bulletin outlining...more
In the August 2019 visa bulletin issued by the US Department of State, all employment-based classifications are backlogged. The US Department of State has released its August 2019 Visa Bulletin outlining per-country...more
EB-1 and EB-2 China show little advance movement, while other dates remain mostly stagnant. The US Department of State has released its July 2019 Visa Bulletin outlining per-country priority date cutoffs that regulate...more
EB-1 India retrogresses by more than two years; EB-2 China advances by slightly over two months. The US Department of State has released its June 2019 Visa Bulletin outlining per-country priority date cutoffs that regulate...more
The U.S. Department of State has released the Visa Bulletin for May 2019, which shows slight progress in most employment-based preference categories. The Visa Bulletin provides monthly updates to foreign nationals waiting...more
EB-1 remains backlogged in the May 2019 visa bulletin, while EB-3 India allotment is still slightly ahead of EB-2 India allotment....more
In the April 2019 visa bulletin issued by the US Department of State, EB-1 remains backlogged for all country allotments, advancing by only a maximum of one month....more