The July 2010 Visa Bulletin was released earlier this afternoon by the State Department. The tenth visa bulletin for the fiscal year 2010 brings some substantial forward movement in the EB-2 India category which had not moved for the past few months. Also, there is some gradual forward across all EB-3 employment-based categories. Summary of the [...]
In addition to the numerous inquiries on filing a new I-140 when a previous I-140 is pending on appeal, our office handles a number of such new I-140 filings. Pursuant to USCIS guidance, a previously approved labor certification which was timely used to file an I-140 can, in many circumstances, be subsequently used to file [...]
The June 2010 Visa Bulletin was released earlier today by the State Department. The ninth visa bulletin for the fiscal year 2010 brings gradual forward across most employment-based categories except EB-2 India (no change this month, for the third month in a row). The State Department added another country to the list of oversubscribed countries [...]
The Department of Labor (“DOL”) has provided an update on the current PERM processing dates as of April 30, 2010. They are as follows: Regular processing: July 2009. DOL is processing PERM applications with priority dates in July of 2009. This suggests that there is very slight forward movement for regular PERM processing. Accordingly, regular [...]
The May 2010 Visa Bulletin was just released by the State Department. The eighth visa bulletin for the fiscal year 2010 brings gradual forward across most employment-based categories except EB-2 India (no change this month, for the second month in a row). A notable movement can be seen in the EB-3 India category where the [...]
The April 2010 Visa Bulletin was just released by the State Department. The seventh visa bulletin for the fiscal year 2010 brings gradual forward movement. There is some gradual forward movement across most employment-based categories except EB-2 India and EB-3 Mexico which did not change this month. A notable movement is in EB-3 India category [...]
The March 2010 Visa Bulletin was just released by the State Department. The sixth visa bulletin for the fiscal year 2010 and the third for the calendar 2010 does not bring much movement. There is some slow forward movement across most employment-based categories. The most significant movement noted this month is in EB-3 ROW and [...]
In a November 2009 AILA meeting, Mr. Charlie Oppenheim, who is Chief of the Immigrant Visa Control and Reporting Division at the Department of State (or also known as the person who determines the visa bulletin dates), has indicated some ways in which the visa bulletin numbers will move over the next few months. Mr. Oppenheim’s [...]
The January 2010 Visa Bulletin was just released by the State Department. The fourth visa bulletin for the fiscal year 2010 and the first for the calendar 2010 does not bring much movement. For many categories, the only forward movement is in the 1-2 months range. Here is a summary of the January 2010 Visa [...]
The November 2009 Visa Bulletin was released by the State Department. The second visa bulletin for the fiscal year 2010 does not bring much movement. The slight forward movement can be observed in EB-2 and EB-3 China and in EB-3 India. All other categories, including EB-3 Rest of World (ROW) remain unchanged. Here is a [...]