Visa Bulletin

The monthly Visa Bulletin (see this article for an explanation of the Visa Bulletin) issued by the Department of State is one of the most closely watched and anticipated government communications in the immigration community.

We receive instant updates and are able to comment and analyze each visa bulletin promptly upon its issuance. Our clients benefit from our visa bulletin efforts by knowing as early in advance as possible about the potential benefits and developments that may arise from forward or backward movements in the visa numbers.

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February 2018 Visa Bulletin – EB-2 India Slow Movement; EB-3 China Advances Significantly; Cutoff Date Predictions

The U.S. State Department has just released the February 2018 Visa Bulletin which is the fifth Visa Bulletin for the FY2018 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the continued [...]

By |2018-01-17T10:02:00-05:00January 17th, 2018|Articles, EB-2, EB-3, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

January 2018 Visa Bulletin – EB-3 India Advances Slightly; Slow Movement in EB-2 India/China

The U.S. State Department has just released the January 2018 Visa Bulletin which is the fourth Visa Bulletin for the FY2018 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the continued anemic forward movement [...]

By |2017-12-14T09:20:22-05:00December 14th, 2017|Articles, EB-2, EB-3, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

December 2017 Visa Bulletin – Extremely Slow Forward Movement; EB-3 China Favors Downgrading

The U.S. State Department has just released the December 2017 Visa Bulletin which is the third Visa Bulletin for the FY2018 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the extremely slow forward movement in [...]

By |2017-11-16T13:50:48-05:00November 13th, 2017|Articles, I-485, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

October 2017 Visa Bulletin – EB-1 and EB-2 ROW Current Again; First Bulletin for New Fiscal Year

The U.S. State Department has just released the October 2017 Visa Bulletin which is the first Visa Bulletin for the FY2018 fiscal year. The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is fact [...]

By |2017-09-12T09:31:57-04:00September 12th, 2017|AC21, Articles, EB-2, EB-3, I-485, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

September 2017 Visa Bulletin – Cutoff Date for EB-2 ROW Remains; Last Visa Bulletin for The Fiscal Year

The U.S. State Department has just released the September 2017 Visa Bulletin which is the last Visa Bulletin for the FY2017 fiscal year.  The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is [...]

By |2017-08-09T10:47:01-04:00August 9th, 2017|Articles, EB-2, EB-3, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

How to Skip the Per-Country Immigrant Visa Line – Cross-Chargeability Options

Many of our readers follow closely our reports of the monthly Visa Bulletin which provides cutoff dates for those immigrant visa (green card) applicants who are current and have immigrant visa numbers available (i.e. their actual permanent resident “green” card is assigned an available number and can be issued).   The past several Visa Bulletins [...]

By |2017-07-20T13:50:00-04:00July 20th, 2017|Articles, I-485, News, Visa Bulletin|

August 2017 Visa Bulletin – EB-2 ROW Cutoff Date Introduced

The U.S. State Department has just released the August 2017 Visa Bulletin which is the eleventh Visa Bulletin for the FY2017 fiscal year.  The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the introduction of a cutoff date for the [...]

By |2017-07-11T21:17:47-04:00July 11th, 2017|AOS, Articles, EB-2, EB-3, I-485, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

July 2017 Visa Bulletin – Major EB-3 China Retrogression, EB-3 India Advances Notably

The U.S. State Department has just released the July 2017 Visa Bulletin which is the tenth Visa Bulletin for the FY2017 fiscal year.  The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is the significant 33-month retrogression in EB-3 [...]

By |2017-06-09T21:21:38-04:00June 9th, 2017|Articles, EB-2, EB-3, I-485, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

Check-in with DOS’s Charlie Oppenheim: Visa Bulletin Predictions as of May 19, 2017

Employment-Based Preference Categories. Increased demand across the employment based preferences, including EB-4 and EB-5, has significantly decreased the “otherwise unused numbers” which have traditionally trickled up to EB-1 and potentially down to EB-2.  For example, in FY [...]

By |2017-05-31T21:44:06-04:00May 25th, 2017|DOS, Visa Bulletin|

June 2017 Visa Bulletin – EB-1 China and EB-1 India Cutoff Date Introduced

The U.S. State Department has just released the June 2017 Visa Bulletin which is the ninth Visa Bulletin for the FY2017 fiscal year.  The headline in the upcoming month’s Visa Bulletin is introduction of a cutoff date for EB-1 [...]

By |2017-05-20T21:46:57-04:00May 9th, 2017|Articles, EB-1, EB-2, EB-3, I-485, News, News Alert, Visa Bulletin|

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