TheDepartment of State has just issued the January 2020 VisaBulletin. This is the fourth Visa Bulletin of Fiscal Year 2021. This blogpost analyzes this month’s Visa Bulletin.
Visa Bulletin
Table A: Final Action Dates –Applications with these dates may be approved for their Green Card (PermanentResidency card) or Immigrant Visa appointment.
|
Employment- |
All Other |
CHINA |
INDIA |
PHILIPPINES |
|
1st |
C |
01SEP19 |
01SEP19 |
C |
|
2nd |
C |
01JUN16 |
01OCT09 |
C |
|
3rd |
C |
05DEC17 |
15MAR10 |
C |
Table B: Dates of Filing
The USCIS will be using the TableA: Final Action Dates chart for I-485 filings. A beneficiary must be current on the above Table A chart in order tofile their I-485, Adjustment of Status applications.
MU Law Analysis
Both the Philippines andWorldwide (All Other) EB-3 continue to be current. We expect these categories to stay current forthe foreseeable future. The onlyconstraint to the Philippine EB-3 visas being issued is the capacity at theEmbassy in Manila. It remains to be seenhow increasing COVID infection rates bear on embassies capacities.
India had another month definedby variance. India EB-1 movedahead five more months, after six months in December. Unfortunately, India EB-2 and EB-3 eachmoved ahead by only one week. These slowprogressions, along with the large number of India EB-2 and EB-3 filings inOctober, November, and December, probably means that no further materialprogress will happen in India EB-3 for a long time.
China EB-2 and EB-3 again bothmoved forward by a few weeks, a trend that may continue. China EB-1 showed more progress thanexpected, perhaps because of declining rates of visa issuance out of theAmerican posts in China.
MU expects that future Visa Bulletins will continue to havepositive news, including slow but continued forward progression in the Chineseand Indian categories. We also expectthe Philippine and Worldwide categories will remain current for the foreseeablefuture.