TheDepartment of State has just issued the June2022 Visa Bulletin. This is the ninth VisaBulletin of Fiscal Year 2022. 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.
|
EB |
Worldwide |
CHINA |
INDIA |
PHILIPPINES |
|
1st |
C |
C |
C |
C |
|
2nd |
C |
01MAR19 |
08JUL13 |
C |
|
3rd |
C |
22MAR18 |
15JAN12 |
C |
|
Other workers |
08MAY19 |
01JUN12 |
15JAN12 |
08MAY19 |
Table B: Dates of Filing
The USCIS is expected to use the Table B Dates of Filing chart forI-485 employment-based filings. See: USCISVisa Bulletin Dates
MU Law Analysis
You willnotice that we have added another row, Other Workers. These are EB-3’s for occupations that requireless than two years of education or experience to perform the job. Among healthcare occupations, there are mostcommonly nurse aides. The retrogressionto 08May2019 probably reflects full usage of this category in this fiscal year.
For theother categories, we saw exceptional news for India EB-2, which advanceda full year. All EB-1, along withWorldwide and Philippine EB-3 remained current. We do expect a retrogression of WW andPhilippine EB-3 before the end of the fiscal year. This is common, as wehave explained in the past.
EB-3 India and EB-3 China will remainunchanged from May. We do not expectforward progress in these categories for the rest of the fiscal year.