The Department of State has recently issued the February 2023 Visa Bulletin. This blog post analyzes this month’s Visa Bulletin.
Visa Bulletin
Table A: Final Action Dates — Applications withthese dates may be approved for their Green Card (Permanent Residency card) orImmigrant Visa appointment.
|
EB |
Worldwide |
CHINA |
INDIA |
PHILIPPINES |
|
1st |
C |
01FEB22 |
01FEB22 |
C |
|
2nd |
01NOV22 |
08JUN19 |
08OCT11 |
01NOV22 |
|
3rd |
C |
01AUG18 |
15JUN12 |
C |
|
Other workers |
01JAN20 |
22DEC13 |
15JUN12 |
01JAN20 |
Table B: Dates of Filing
The USCIS is using the Table B Dates of Filing chart for I-485employment-based filings. See: USCIS Visa Bulletin Dates
MU Law Analysis
This was anuneventful Visa Bulletin. Most datesremained the same as in the January2022 Visa Bulletin.
TheWW and Philippine EB-3 remain current. We expect these categoriesto be current through much of the current fiscal year.
EB-3 Other Workers, which is the category for occupationssuch as Nurse Aides, remains retrogressed. It reverted to January 2020 because of continued higher usage thanexpected by the State Department.
We remind allreaders that the FY 2023employment-based immigrant visa limit is 197,000, as compared with 281,507 inFY 2022. These quotas are greater thanthe usual 140,000 employment-based limit because of spillovers of unusedfamily-based immigrant visas in the prior fiscal year. Slowdowns related toCOVID caused the allocation of family-based visas to be short of the limit. It is expected that the employment-basedquota will return to 140,000 in FY 2024, which starts October 1, 2023.