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The State Department released the December Visa Bulletin, showing significant regression for India EB-2 under Final Action Dates and moderate advancement for EB-3 categories next month. Priority-date cutoffs for Final Action Dates and Dates for Filing charts for El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines and all other countries for EB-2 will move from current to Nov. 1, 2022, or Dec. 1, 2022, respectively.
Final Action Dates: Key Movements
EB-1
EB-2
EB-3
Final Action Dates for Employment-Based Preference Cases:
Dates for Filing: Key Movements
Dates for Filing for Employment-Based Preference Cases:
Additional Information: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has not yet announced whether it will use the Final Action Dates or Dates for Filing chart in December. BAL will update clients once USCIS announces which chart will be used. The December Visa Bulletin estimates that 197,000 employment-based green cards will be available for FY2023 due to unused family-based immigrant visas that will roll over from last year. The Department of State also indicated that it expects to impose priority-date cutoffs for EB-1 China and India in coming months.
This alert has been provided by the BAL U.S. Practice Group. For additional information, please contact berryapplemanleiden@bal.com.
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