The Department of State (DOS) has issued its November 2020 Visa Bulletin. We now cover both employment-based and family-based priority dates as detailed below.
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The Department of State (DOS) has issued its October 2020 Visa Bulletin. October 1 marks the start of the new fiscal year so all the immigrant visa categories benefit from new visa numbers and most immigrant visa applicants will see progress in their place in line for permanent residence.
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The Department of State (DOS) has issued its September 2020 Visa Bulletin.
Employment-based movement: Overall, most employment categories will remain at the same place as last month, with modest forward movement under the EB-1 category.
Family-based Movement: Overall, most family-based categories will have modest forward movement.
Detailed charts are in the body of the blog post.
The Department of State (DOS) has issued its August 2020 Visa Bulletin. We will now be covering both employment-based and family-based priority dates as detailed below.
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The Department of State (DOS) has issued its July 2020 Visa Bulletin. Overall, most employment categories will have modest forward movement. One category with a significant eleven month advancement is employment-based category 1 (“EB-1”) for Indian nationals. Otherwise, the employment-based categories 1 and 2 for most nationals remain current.
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The Department of State (DOS) has issued its June 2020 Visa Bulletin. Overall, most employment categories will have modest forward movement. The two categories with a significant ten month advancement are employment-based category 1 (“EB-1”) for Indian nationals and employment-based category 3 (“EB-3”) for most nationals. Otherwise, the employment-based categories 1 and 2 for most nationals remain current.
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TThe Department of State (DOS) has issued its December 2019 Visa Bulletin. Overall, most employment categories had little forward movement. Employment-based category 1 (“EB-1) for most nationals advances by 44 days while for Chinese nationals it moves forward by 103 days. There is no change for Indian nationals in the EB-1 category.
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The Department of State (DOS) has issued its October 2019 Visa Bulletin. October 1 marks the start of the new fiscal year so all the visa categories benefit from new visa numbers. As a result, most categories see sizable movement. Employment-based (“EB”) category 1 for all nationals (except for India and China) advances by six months. EB-1 for China moves forward nearly three years and EB-1 India goes from unavailable to January 1, 2015. The EB-2 category for all nationals is now current, except for China, which, unfortunately, has a two-year retrogression, and India, which advances by four days. The EB-3 category is current for all nationals except for China, which moves forward nearly two years; India, which moves forward three and a half years, and the Philippines, which moves forward by fifteen months.
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The Department of State (DOS) has issued its September 2019 Visa Bulletin. Overall, most employment-based categories this month had little advancement or retrogressed. Employment-based category 1 (EB-1) for most nationals advanced by a little over a year, while for Chinese nationals it retrogressed by two and a half years, and for Indian nationals the EB-1 category is now unavailable. For the employment-based category 2 (EB-2), most nationals advanced by one year, while Chinese nationals had no advancement, and Indian nationals advanced by only six days. Lastly, the employment-based category 3 (EB-3) for most nationals saw no advancement. Chinese nationals retrogressed by 2 years and a half, Indian nationals retrogressed by six months, and Filipino nationals had no advancement. In fact, the DOS has indicated that the EB-3 category for all nationals other than India and China is unavailable for the rest of the fiscal year.
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The Department of State (DOS) has issued its August 2019 Visa Bulletin. Overall, there was significant retrogression in most categories this month. Employment-based category 1 (EB-1) for most nationals retrogressed by nearly two months, while for Chinese nationals it retrogressed by ten months, and there was no movement for Indian nationals. For the employment-based category 2 (EB-2), most nationals retrogressed by nearly two and a half years, while Chinese nationals advanced by two months, and Indian nationals advanced by only eight days. Lastly, the employment-based category 3 (EB-3) for most nationals retrogressed by nearly three years; Indian nationals retrogressed by three years and six months, but Chinese nationals moved forward by six months.
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