The annual green card lottery, DV-2010, opens today at noon eastern time. The deadline for submission is noon, eastern time, on Monday, December 1, 2008. Although early application does not increase the chances of being selected, we have seen in the past years the lottery site overloaded with web traffic in the last days or [...]
The May 2008 Visa Bulletin is out. Among the employment-based visa numbers, unfortunately, there was only a slight forward movement for most categories. The most notable movement was for employment-based third preference category (EB-3) for all countries except China, India, Mexico. The priority date for such EB-3 workers moved from July 2005 to March 2006. EB-3 Mexico and EB-3 Philippines moved to July 2002 and March 2006, respectively. EB-2 China and EB-2 India moved slightly forward; unfortunately this movement was very minor, only by a month, to January 2004 for both.
The Department of Labor has released the PERM processing statistics for the first two quarters of its Fiscal Year 2008. The report indicates that there were 44,090 PERM applications received, there were 12,600 cases certified and, as of March 23, 2008, there were 28,000 cases pending. Read the full article for details.