The Department of State’s VisaBulletin guru, Charlie Oppenheim, hosts monthlymeetings with the American Immigration Lawyers Association.  Charlie Oppenheim is the Department of State’sChief of the Control and Reporting Division. He is the officer who isresponsible for producing the Visa Bulletin each month.
This month’s Check In With Charliefeatured predictions about EB2 and EB3, which are the most popular categoriesfor readers of this Blog.  Here are someof this month’s highlights:
Philippine EB-3:  Charlieexpects to aggressively move this category into mid/late 2015 before the end ofthe fiscal year (September 30, 2017).  MULaw believes that the category will continue to be positive, although we do notexpect that the significant progression will continue once the Visa Bulletin afterthe fiscal year, because demand for Philippine EB-3 was heavy in 2016.  Having said that, we do expect continuedsteady movement forward.
Worldwide EB-3:  Thiscategory should continue to be effectively current, with a retrogression ofonly a few weeks/months.
India EB-2:  Charlie expectsminimal movement forward.  Charlie claimsthat 40 percent of the India EB-2 demand is from India EB-3 upgrades.
India EB-3.  This number will be aggressive advanced becauseWorldwide EB-3 demand has slowed.  As amatter of process, unused Worldwide EB-3 numbers spill into the slowest EB-3category (India).