The Department of State hasjust issued the February 2020 Visa Bulletin. This is the fifth VisaBulletin of Fiscal Year 2020. This blog post analyzes this month’s VisaBulletin.
February 2020 Visa Bulletin
Table A: Final Action Dates– Applications with these dates may be approved for their Green Card(Permanent Residency card) or Immigrant Visa appointment.
Employment-
based
All Other
CHINA
INDIA
PHILIPPINES
1st
15DEC18
22MAY17
01JAN15
01DEC18
2nd
C
01JUL15
19MAY09
C
3rd
C
01JAN16
08JAN09
01JUN18

MU Law Analysis
All Other: Although All Other EB-1has a slight retrogression, the EB-2 category remained current and is expectedto remain current for the foreseeable future. The EB-3 is current, but the DOS expects to implement a retrogression inMarch.
China: EB-2 did not move,although EB-3 progressed by a month.  TheEB-2 and EB-3 each progressed about one month. Over the course of FY2020 we expect EB-2 and EB-3 to remain within a fewmonths of each other.
India:  There was virtually no progress forIndia.  We continue to expect very littleprogress in either category in future months.
Philippines:  We wereencouraged by the three-month progression in EB-3.  We remain surprised by the slow progress ofEB-3, although we were encouraged by this month’s progression.  We think thatthere is a chance of continued progression in the next few months, although theenactment of All Other EB-3 retrogression may mean that fewer visas areavailable for the Philippines.