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June 2024 Visa Bulletin – Employment-based Dates Unchanged (Again!)

The U.S. State Department has released the June 2024 Visa Bulletin which is the ninth Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year.  The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is (again) the lack of any meaningful movement across any of [...]

By |2024-05-09T11:08:12-04:00May 9th, 2024|AOS, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

USCIS Medical Exam Policy Change: I-693 Medical Exams Valid Indefinitely

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (“USCIS”) have just announced a change in their policy regarding the validity period of a Form I-693, Report of Medical Examination and Vaccination Record, when filed in support of a Form I-485 Adjustment of [...]

By |2024-04-12T09:49:46-04:00April 12th, 2024|AOS, Articles, I-485, News, News Alert, Policy|

What To Do If My I-485 Green Card is Approved (in Error) When My Priority Date is Not Current?

One of the happiest moments for an I-485 Adjustment of Status applicant is the day their employment-based I-485 is approved and their green card is ordered for production in mailing.   However, [...]

By |2024-01-07T15:50:50-05:00January 7th, 2024|AOS, Articles, I-290B, I-485, News, News Alert|

May 2021 Visa Bulletin – Continued Forward Movement for EB India

The U.S. State Department has just released the May 2021 Visa Bulletin which is the eighth Visa Bulletin for the fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the continuing significant forward movement for EB-2 and [...]

By |2021-04-29T13:21:51-04:00April 29th, 2021|AOS, Articles, I-485, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

EB-2 to EB-3 India Downgrading to Benefit from Earlier Priority Date – How and When to Do It? (Updated)

For many years, it has been a true fact of life that an Indian-born applicant can obtain a green card faster under the higher EB-2 preference category (requiring master’s degree or [...]

By |2024-09-24T16:20:18-04:00September 24th, 2020|AAO, AOS, EB-3, I-485, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

President Trump Seeks to Bar Certain Immigrants from Entering U.S. for 60 Days

In a late night tweet, on April 20th, President Trump indicated that he would suspend immigration into the United States during the coronavirus outbreak. The actual executive order has just been signed and released and it indicates [...]

By |2020-04-23T08:52:59-04:00April 22nd, 2020|AOS, Articles, News, News Alert|

February 2020 Visa Bulletin – EB-3 ROW Cutoff Date Imminent

The U.S. State Department has just released the February 2020 Visa Bulletin which is the fifth Visa Bulletin for the FY2020 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the very slow forward movement across the backlogged [...]

By |2020-01-23T13:08:43-05:00January 23rd, 2020|AOS, Articles, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

November 2019 Visa Bulletin – No Movement for EB India; Slow Movement Elsewhere

The U.S. State Department has just released the November 2019 Visa Bulletin which is the second Visa Bulletin for the FY2020 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the very slow forward movement [...]

By |2019-10-17T09:15:57-04:00October 17th, 2019|AOS, Articles, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

October 2019 Visa Bulletin – Mixed Bag of Recovery and Delays; First Bulletin for New Fiscal Year

The U.S. State Department has just released the October 2019 Visa Bulletin which is the first Visa Bulletin for the FY2020 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is that [...]

By |2019-09-18T08:06:19-04:00September 18th, 2019|AOS, Articles, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

September 2019 Visa Bulletin – Retrogression and Unavailability for Many EB Categories; Last Bulletin for Fiscal Year

The U.S. State Department has just released the September 2019 Visa Bulletin which is the last Visa Bulletin for the FY2019 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the [...]

By |2019-08-15T21:18:32-04:00August 15th, 2019|AOS, Articles, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

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