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 December 2009 Visa Bulletin was released today by the State Department. The third visa bulletin for the fiscal year 2010 does not bring much movement. In fact, the only movement in the EB categories is a one week only forward movement in EB-3 India. All other categories, including EB-3 Rest of World (ROW) remain [...]
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 [...]
The October 2009 Visa Bulletin which is the first visa bulletin for the new FY2010 fiscal year was released earlier today by the State Department. This October 2009 Visa Bulletin has been widely expected not only to see the EB-3 category go back to some availability of visas but also to use the movement in [...]
The September 2009 Visa Bulletin was released by the State Department. The only change, in comparison to the August 2009 Visa Bulletin, is the forward movement in the EB-2 China and India categories which changed from January 1, 2003 to January 8, 2005. All other categories remain unchanged. Here is a summary of the September [...]
The August 2009 Visa Bulletin was just released by the State Department. The only change, in comparison to the July 2009 Visa Bulletin, is the forward movement in the EB-2 China and India categories which changed from January 1, 2000 to October 1, 2003 . All other categories remain unchanged. Here is a summary of [...]
The July 2009 Visa Bulletin was released today. Unfortunately, as expected, the only change is the EB-2 China category which changed from February 15, 2005 to January 1, 2000. All other categories remain unchanged. Here is a summary of the July 2009 Visa Bulletin: EB-1 remains current across the board. EB-2 remains unchanged for all categories except [...]