The Department of State has just issued the May 2020 Visa Bulletin. This is the eighth Visa Bulletin of FiscalYear 2021. This blog post analyzes this month’s Visa Bulletin.
Visa Bulletin
Table A: Final Action Dates — Applications with these dates may be approvedfor their Green Card (Permanent Residency card) or Immigrant Visa appointment.
|
Employment- |
All Other |
CHINA |
INDIA |
PHILIPPINES |
|
1st |
C |
C |
C |
C |
|
2nd |
C |
01DEC16 |
01AUG10 |
C |
|
3rd |
C |
15MAY18 |
01FEB11 |
C |
Table B: Dates of Filing
The USCIS will be using the Table A: Final Action Dates chart forI-485 employment-based filings. A beneficiary must be current on the aboveTable A chart in order to file their I-485, Adjustment of Status applications. USCIS Adjustment of Status page.
MU Law Analysis
Both the Philippines and Worldwide (All Other) EB-3 continueto be current. Our opinion remains that these categories will stay current forthe foreseeable future.
India EB-1 remains current, which continues to lead to extra visas willflowing down to India EB2 and EB3. IndiaEB-2 again moved ahead, this time by 3 months. EB-3 also jumped up. It moved 6 months, into 2011. We could see favorable processing times forthe rest of 2021.
China EB-2 and EB-3 again both moved forward by a few months, a trend that shouldcontinue. China EB-1 remainsreflecting the paucity of visas that were issued under the last year of theTrump presidency and the COVID pandemic.