August 2019 Visa Bulletin Retrogression

昨天收到律所的邮件。这是说不管出生地在哪里，EB-2和EB-3都开始排期了吗？


August 2019 Visa Bulletin Retrogression

Effective August 1, the availability of employment-based visa numbers experience significant setbacks across the board. Among the most notable developments are the following:

Visa numbers will no longer be current in the Worldwide EB-2 and EB-3 categories. Instead, cut-off dates will be established.

The EB-2 category will have a cut-off date of January 1, 2017 and the EB-3 category will have a cut-off date of July 1, 2016. The EB-1 category has also retrogressed further, to July 1, 2016.

While I-140 Immigrant Visa Petitions seeking to qualify in one of these categories can continue to be filed, only applicants who have established a “Priority Date” * prior to the cut-off date can file an Adjustment of Status (I-485) application and obtain the associated benefits of an Employment Authorization and Advance Parole document.

Applicants in these categories chargeable to the Worldwide quota who already have a Priority Date after the cut-off date who are otherwise eligible must file their I-485 during the month of July 2019, or face waiting until their date is again reached.

Applicants considering filing a concurrent EB-2 Visa Petition and Adjustment of Status application based, for example, on a National Interest Waiver, also must do so during this month to avoid an indeterminate delay before the numbers again become current. It is impossible to predict when this will happen.

Applicants born in China, India and other countries which already had established cut-off dates in these categories saw some further retrogression in several of the categories.

The August 2019 Visa Bulletin may be viewed on the Department of State website at www.travel.state.gov.

Please contact our office if you have any questions.

*a Priority Date is established by the filing of a PERM Labor Certification Application which is eventually approved, or the filing of an I-140 Immigrant Visa Petition in those cases where a Labor Certification is not required.

楼主是ROW的人吗？中国人EB2/3的8月排期都是前进的。

obama555 发表于 2019-7-15 03:55
楼主是ROW的人吗？中国人EB2/3的8月排期都是前进的。

嗯。。看了下之前两个月ROW都没有排期的啊。最近是发生了什么变化吗?

我认为这是正常情况，无需大惊小怪，只是本财年配额用完而已。

现在就安心等9月中旬公布10月（新财年开始第一个月）的排期吧~