【表A】USCIS FAQ 更新的一些小变化

USCIS的这个FAQ 在 3/22日有很多新增或者更新的内容 https://www.uscis.gov/green-card ... ment-of-status-faqs。除了新增内容外，我好奇有哪些旧有内容的更新，所以去 https://archive.org/web/ 比较了一下。（最近4/7也更新了，但只加了一两个更精准的词语。）


其中一个Q&A关于表A排期：

Q：Why has DOS retrogressed (set back) certain Final Action Dates or applied new Final Action Dates in the Visa Bulletin for October 2022?

回答的内容的变化是：
10月26日：
“When the amount of demand for a particular category (or a country within a category) exceeds the supply of visa numbers available, the category/country is considered “oversubscribed” and DOS applies a cut-off date in the Final Action Dates chart to ensure that visa use remains within the quarterly and annual limits, as well as the category and per-country limits and order of consideration, as established by Congress. (Updated 10/26/2022)”
3月22日：
“When the amount of demand for a particular category (or a country within a category) exceeds the supply of visa numbers available, the category/country is considered “oversubscribed” and DOS applies a cut-off date in the Final Action Dates chart to ensure that visa use remains within the annual limits, as well as the category and per-country limits and order of consideration, as established by Congress. (Updated 03/22/2023)”

可以看到后者删去了“quarterly”。所以，这反映的是 Final Action Dates 不会根据每季度的名额来定，而是全年名额来定。

补充内容 (2023-04-11 18:33 +8:00):
该FAQ在3/22更新前的 web archive 在这：https://web.archive.org/web/2023 ... ment-of-status-faqs

这也是和新加的这个Q&A相互呼应的：

“Q. How do the agencies apply the quarterly limits to visa allocation in the family-sponsored and employment-based preference categories?
A. INA 201(a)(2) states that employment-based immigrants who may be issued immigrant visas or who may otherwise acquire LPR status are limited to 27% of the worldwide EB annual limit in each of the first 3 quarters of the fiscal year. The quarterly limits do not apply to individual categories or countries; they apply to the use of all employment-based immigrant visas as a whole. For example, in the first quarter, the agencies could use 50% of the visas available in the EB-4 category, provided that overall use across all the EB categories did not exceed 27%. There is no quarterly allocation of visas for a specific country or category. As a result, there is no additional batch of visa numbers allocated to a particular country or category (for example, India EB-2) at the start of each quarter and the Final Action Dates established in the Visa Bulletin generally reflect the annual category and per-country limits. The same is true for the family-sponsored categories, as stated in INA 201(a)(1). (New, added 03/22/2023)”

意思是，比如中国eb1，等着到财年末9月再说前进的可能性？毕竟每个季度不会有额外的配额了。话说这样每月发布新的bulletin纯粹是给ROW陪跑吗

xieyq1990 发表于 2023-4-11 18:18
意思是，比如中国eb1，等着到财年末9月再说前进的可能性？毕竟每个季度不会有额外的配额了。话说这样每月发 ...

不是的，名额是确定的，但是实际发放量每个月是变化的。

我觉得从这个改动中可以确定的是，表A不是根据每个季度的27%限额来调整的，所以不必期待（某个国家EB类别的）表A在新季度开始会有新名额而前进。

我的理解是每个月 DOS 制定 Final action date 的时候是根据当下到财年末的绿卡名额的需求量的预估和能发的剩余名额（supply）做对比，但每个月的实际名额使用不一定和预估符合。如果不动，有可能是因为预估的需求量和实际使用量比较准确。但这是我的理解，不一定对。

我当然希望排期能够匀速前进，但实在不知道DOS的预估是怎么做的，他们的预估如果不准确导致排期前进太慢，可能会浪费名额。