The Department ofState has recently issued the December 2022 Visa Bulletin. This blog post analyzes this month’s Visa Bulletin. The FY 2023 employment-based immigrant visa limit is 197,000, ascompared with 281,507 in FY 2022. Thesequotas are greater than the usual 140,000 employment-based limit because ofspillovers of unused family-based immigrant visas in the prior fiscalyear. Slowdowns related to COVID causedthe allocation of family-based visas to be short of the limit.
Visa Bulletin
Table A: Final Action Dates — Applications withthese dates may be approved for their Green Card (Permanent Residency card) orImmigrant Visa appointment.
|
EB |
Worldwide |
CHINA |
INDIA |
PHILIPPINES |
|
1st |
C |
C |
C |
C |
|
2nd |
01NOV22 |
08JUN19 |
08OCT11 |
01NOV22 |
|
3rd |
C |
01AUG18 |
15JUN12 |
C |
|
Other workers |
01JUN20 |
22JUN13 |
15JUN12 |
01JUN20 |
Table B: Dates of Filing
The USCIS is using the Table B Dates of Filing chart for I-485employment-based filings. See: USCIS Visa Bulletin Dates
MU Law Analysis
As expected, there was a retrogression in India EB2 inthe coming months due to high demand. Allcategories of EB-2 retrogression, which reflects a smaller allocation ofemployment based immigrant numbers than in the past two years.
On the other hand, India EB-3 progressed two months,which was unexpected good news.
The WW and Philippine EB-3 remaincurrent. We expect these categories to be current through much of the current fiscalyear.
EB-3 Other Workers, which is the category for occupations suchas Nurse Aides, remains retrogressed but held steady to June 2020 forPhilippines and ROW. We do not expectfurther retrogression in these two categories. We would not be surprised to see some progression in these categoriesthroughout this fiscal year.
China EB-3 advanced by six weeks, but a note at the end of theVisa Bulletin said that EB-1 China and India should expect a retrogression inthe in the coming months.