Chats with Charlie Open to the Public Starting March 17

In case you are involved in realizing how the dates within the Visa Bulletin will advance or retrogress sooner or later, we’re thrilled to let you know about one of the best ways to take action, on the State Division’s new program entitled Chats with Charlie.

The Visa Bulletin is printed on a month-to-month foundation by the State Division.  It reveals the backlogs for individuals who’ve been sponsored for inexperienced playing cards below the employment-based (EB), family-based (FB) and variety lottery classes.

There are thousands and thousands of individuals ready in line for EB and FB inexperienced playing cards, and the wait instances differ relying on their EB/FB class and their nation of start.

Typically the dates within the Visa Bulletin transfer ahead very barely, typically they advance months at a time and different instances they transfer backwards.

For individuals ready in line, it is very important know which means the dates of their class are going to maneuver, and the way shortly.  Chats with Charlie shall be an important supply of knowledge.

 

Consumer Evaluations

A couple of years in the past, Charlie Oppenheim of the State Division, the one who calculates the dates on the Visa Bulletin every month, began assembly with the American Immigration Attorneys Affiliation (AILA), and answering questions on how he anticipated the dates of every class would transfer sooner or later.

As quickly as we acquired AILA’s month-to-month “Examine-In with Charlie”, we shared this data with our readers on the Visa Bulletin Predictions web page on our web site.

Nevertheless, someday in 2020, the earlier Administration cancelled the month-to-month “Examine-In with Charlie” conferences. This was very disappointing.

 

Chats with Charlie Begin on March 17

That’s why we have been thrilled when the State Division printed the next on March 12, 2021:

“@TravelGov will start internet hosting “Chats with Charlie” on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/consumer/TravelGov) to debate data offered within the month-to-month Visa Bulletin.  The primary chat is scheduled to happen on March 17, 2021 at 1:00 pm EST to debate the April Visa Bulletin.  Questions could be emailed to VisaBulletin@state.gov forward of the occasion with “Chat with Charlie Query” within the topic line.  Questions may also be taken by way of the YouTube Stay Chat and shall be answered in real-time.  The occasion is meant to deal with problems with basic curiosity associated to the content material of the Visa Bulletin, and no coverage, case, or submit particular questions shall be accepted.”

Now, for the primary time, when you have questions concerning the Visa Bulletin and the way the dates in your class will transfer sooner or later, you possibly can ask Charlie straight.

I’ve listened to Charlie converse at AILA conferences for a few years.  The knowledge that he gives to immigration legal professionals concerning the Visa Bulletin, and his predictions about advances and retrogressions sooner or later, are invaluable.

Now, for the primary time, it is possible for you to not solely to hearken to Charlie converse concerning the Visa Bulletin and his predictions, however to ask him questions.

 

Chats with Charlie – Further Sources

We acknowledge that lots of you’ll be working throughout this week’s Chats with Charlie, and shall be unable to look at him dwell.

We are going to embed a duplicate of his YouTube chat on our Visa Bulletin Predictions web page so you possibly can watch his presentation every time it’s handy for you.

We may also embrace the highlights of Charlie’s presentation on the identical web page.

We stay up for doing this on a month-to-month foundation.

For these of you who shall be submitting inquiries to Charlie by way of e-mail, because the State Division advises, do not forget that your questions have to be basic in nature.   Chorus from asking questions which might be particular to your case.  Additionally, do not forget that Charlie works for the State Division, not for the USCIS.  He has no management, or inside data, about whether or not the USCIS will select to honor the Closing Motion Dates or the Submitting Dates for any explicit month.

I’ve all the time discovered Charlie Oppenheim to be each easy and intensely useful, and it’s nice that the brand new Administration has seen match to permit him to work together with, and thus higher inform, the immigrant group!