May 2021 Visa Bulletin: USCIS Honors Final Action Dates For All EB Categories – Path2USA

Simply when all employment based mostly classes had been getting used to a ahead motion amongst precedence dates each month, The U.S. State Division launched the visa bulletin for Could 2021. Whereas each EB-1 India and China had develop into present in April’s visa bulletin, Could’s visa bulletin additionally reveals vital motion in just a few classes. Under we break down the dates for India and China.

Closing Motion Reduce Off Dates

In accordance with the State Division remaining motion cutoff dates for issuance of an immigrant visa in Could 2021 are:

• EB-1: China and India stay present.
• EB-2: China and India advance by three months: China is located at December 1, 2016 and India at August 1, 2010.
• EB-3 Professionals and Expert Staff: Precedence dates for China advances by two months to Could 15, 2018, and for India, they advance by 5 months to February 1, 2011.
• EB-5: India has been present for some time and China continues to stay at August 15, 2015.
• All different international locations stay present in all of the above classes.

USCIS clarified that they may use Closing Motion dates chart to simply accept adjustment functions. This was the identical case in April’s visa bulletin as nicely. 

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Paradoxically, had they chosen to make use of the Dates for Submitting Chart as a substitute, China would have benefitted enormously. Within the Could Dates for Submitting chart, EB-2 China will advance prominently to July 1, 2017 – a six month ahead actions! However the EB-3, expert employee class advances solely by one month to September 1, 2018.

EB-Class	India	China
EB-1	Present	Present
EB-2	Could 15, 2011	July 1, 2017
EB-3	January 1, 2015	September 1, 2018

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Whereas the entry ban issued by President Trump had precipitated main ripples within the issuance of immigrant visas overseas, its rescission by President Biden didn’t enhance the state of affairs a lot. Lowered consular operations by U.S. consulates overseas because of the pandemic proceed to restrict its issuance.  Many are nonetheless struggling to work by way of backlogs. 

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