The Department of Statehas just issued the November 2023 Visa Bulletin, which is the second of the 2024 US fiscal year  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 Chargeability 
Areas Except
Those Listed

CHINA-
mainland 
born

INDIA

MEXICO

PHILIPPINES

1st

C

15FEB22

01JAN17

C

C

2nd

15JUL22

01OCT19

01JAN12

15JUL22

15JUL22

3rd

01DEC21

01JAN20

01MAY12

01DEC21

01DEC21

Table B: Dates of Filing

The USCIS is expected touse the Table B Dates of Filing chart for I-485 employment-based filings. See: USCIS Visa Bulletin Dates

MU Law Analysis

This was one of the leastinteresting Visa Bulletins in a long time. All dates are exactly as they were last month, except for All Other,Mexico, and Philippine EB-2, which advanced one week.

MU Law believes that theState Department is acting conservatively, which while frustrating, may proveto ratchet down the anxiety around the monthly chart, and provide a bettermeasure of processing times for those involved. While no one likes a nearlytwo-year EB-3 retrogression for non-India and China, it may prove to bea stable set of dates.  We do expectthese categories to slowly progress throughout the fiscal year pushing through2022, and perhaps getting into 2023 before the end of the fiscal year.