TheDepartment of State has just issued the June 2020 Visa Bulletin. This is the ninth VisaBulletin of Fiscal Year 2021. This blog post analyzes this month’s VisaBulletin.
Visa Bulletin
Table A: Final Action Dates — Applications with thesedates may be approved for their Green Card (Permanent Residency card) orImmigrant Visa appointment.
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. USCISAdjustment 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 remains current, which continues to lead to extra visas willflowing down to India EB2 and EB3. IndiaEB-2 again moved ahead, this time by 4 months, a positive trend that hascontinued. EB-3 also jumped up. It moved 4 months. We will see favorable processing times forthe rest of 2021.
China EB-2 and EB-3 again both moved forward by a few months, a trend that shouldcontinue. China EB-1 remains current, reflecting the paucity of visasthat were issued under the last year of the Trump presidency and the COVIDpandemic.