The Department of State hasjust issued the January 2020 Visa Bulletin. This is the fourth VisaBulletin of Fiscal Year 2020. This blog post analyzes this month’s VisaBulletin.
January 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
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CHINA
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INDIA
|
PHILIPPINES
|
1st
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15OCT18
|
22MAY17
|
01JAN15
|
01OCT18
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2nd
|
C
|
01JUL15
|
18MAY09
|
C
|
3rd
|
C
|
01DEC15
|
01JAN09
|
15MAR18
|
MU Law Analysis
All Other: Although All Other EB-1has a slight retrogression, the EB-2 and EB-3 categories remained current andare expected to remain current for the foreseeable future.
China: EB-2 did progress by threemonths. The EB-2 and EB-3 eachprogressed about one month. Over thecourse of FY2020 we expect EB-2 to catch up to EB-3 and the two categories tostay roughly equal.
India: As with China, the EB-2and EB-3 dates remain inverted. Therewas just three days’ progress in EB-2 and no progress in EB-3. We continue to expect very little progress ineither category in future months.
Philippines: Weremain surprised by the slow progress of EB-3. The DOS indicates that the Philippine EB-3will only be moving one month at a time for the next 3 calendar months, whichis slower than our internal metric indicate should be happening. We are no longer predicting as rosyprogressions in early 2020.