The Department of State’s VisaBulletin guru, Charlie Oppenheim, hosts monthlymeetings with the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Charlie Oppenheim is the Department of State’sChief of the Control and Reporting Division. He is the officer who isresponsible for producing the Visa Bulletin each month.
This month’s Check In With Charliefeatured predictions about EB2 and EB3, which are the most popular categoriesfor readers of this Blog. Here are someof this month’s highlights:
EB-3 Worldwide. Charlieexpects EB-3 Worldwide to continue to be “effectively current” for theforeseeable future.
EB-3 India. Charlie predicts that the July final action date forEB-3 India will advance to October 15, 2005, which he reiterated at a May 18,2017 meeting with AILA in Washington, D.C.
EB-2 India. Previously, Charlie believed that this category willrecover to FY2017’s final action date. Unfortunately, he no longer believes this tobe the case. This category mayretrogress or exhaust in August, until October 1, 2017.
EB-3 Philippines. Charliedid not comment on EB-3 Philippines, but MU Law’s internal tracking indicatesthat this category will continue to progress at the same rate as the last fewmonths.