TheDepartment of State has just issued the August2020 Visa Bulletin. This is the eleventh Visa Bulletin of Fiscal Year 2020.This blog post analyzes this month’s Visa Bulletin.
August2020 Visa Bulletin
TableA: Final Action Dates — Applications with these dates may be approved fortheir Green Card (Permanent Residency card) or Immigrant Visa appointment.
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Employment-
based |
All Other
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CHINA
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INDIA
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PHILIPPINES
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1st
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C
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08FEB18
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08FEB18
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C
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2nd
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C
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15JAN16
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08JUL09
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C
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3rd
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01APR19
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15FEB17
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01OCT09
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01APR19
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MU Law Analysis
ThisVisa Bulletin continued the big progressions that we saw in the June and JulyVisa Bulletins. MU Law hasbeen calling on the DOS to rapidly advance the dates so that all immigrantvisas are used in 2020, and they finally responded in a big way. The big story is the one-year progression WorldwideEB-3 and Philippines EB-3. These EB-3 datesare now at April 2019.
Thegood news was not limited to those categories. India EB-1 and India EB-3 also jumped forward. EB-1 moved ahead ten months to February 2018,and EB-3 by five months, to October 2009. Only India EB-2 disappointed, staying at July 8, 2009. India EB-2 and EB-3 are inverted. MU Law expects India EB-2 and EB-3 to move insync for the foreseeable future. EB-2swill downgrade their petitions to EB-3 to take advantage of the more favorableprocessing date, leading to an equilibrium between the two categories.
Allof the China categories moved forward as well, as expected in a year where fewimmigrant visa have been issued.
MULaw expects the favorable employment-based visa dates to continue next fiscalyear. We explained why on thisblog post.