TheDepartment of State has just issued the April 2020 Visa Bulletin. This is the seventh VisaBulletin of Fiscal Year 2021. This blog post analyzes this month’s VisaBulletin.

Visa Bulletin

Table A: Final Action Dates — Applications with these dates may beapproved for their Green Card (Permanent Residency card) or Immigrant Visaappointment.

Employment-
based

All Other

CHINA

INDIA

PHILIPPINES

1st

C

C

C

C

2nd

C

01SEP16

01MAY10

C

3rd

C

15MAR18

01SEP10

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 became current, which led to extra visas will flowing down toIndia EB2 and EB3.  Indeed, India EB-2moved ahead almost a year and half into May 2011.  EB-3 also jumped up. It is now is2014.  We could see favorableprocessing times for the rest of 2021.

China EB-2 and EB-3 again both moved forward, this time by months, a trend that shouldcontinue.  China EB-1 is nowcurrent reflecting the paucity of visas that were issued under the last year ofthe Trump presidency.