The Department of Staterecently issued the April 2023 Visa Bulletin. This blog post analyzes this month’s VisaBulletin.
Visa Bulletin
Table A: Final Action Dates — Applications with thesedates may be approved for their Green Card (Permanent Residency card) orImmigrant Visa appointment.
|
EB |
All Other |
CHINA |
INDIA |
PHILIPPINES |
|
1st |
C |
01FEB22 |
01FEB22 |
C |
|
2nd |
01JUL22 |
08JUN19 |
01JAN11 |
01JUL22 |
|
3rd |
C |
01NOV18 |
15JUN12 |
C |
|
Other workers |
01JAN20 |
01OCT14 |
15JUN12 |
01JAN20 |
Table B: Dates of Filing
The USCIS will be using Table A: Final ActionDates chart for I-485 employment-based filings. A beneficiary must be currenton the above Table A chart in order to file their I-485, Adjustment of Statusapplications. See: USCIS Visa BulletinDates
MU Law Analysis
This month again there wasgood news and bad news for the retrogressed EB-2 and EB-3 categories.
There was a retrogression in allcategories of EB-2 except China due to high demand. Philippineand ROW retrogressed by four months whereas India unexpectedlyretrogressed by nine months.
The newsremains positive for Philippine and Worldwide EB-3, where dates held atCurrent. China EB-3 progressed three months, which wasunexpected, good news.
Increased demand in the EmploymentThird category may necessitate the establishment of a worldwide final actiondate (including Mexico and Philippines) in the coming months. This means thatall EB-3 categories are expected to retrogress by the end of the fiscal year.
EB-3 OtherWorkers, which is the category for occupations such as Nurse Aides, remainsretrogressed but held steady to January 2020 for Philippine andROW.