The September 2021 visa bulletin launched by USCIS shouldn’t be a lot totally different from the earlier month’s, August 2021’s visa bulletin. Probably the most progress in inexperienced card precedence dates is made among the many EB-3 India visa class whereas the others have slowed down.
A brand new fiscal 12 months begins on October 1, 2021. Being the final one for the fiscal 12 months 2021, the September’s visa bulletin got here with just a few disappointments. One of many essential ones being that a large variety of immigrant visa numbers will stay unused because the 12 months wraps up in September. Because the await inexperienced playing cards retains growing every year, from 75 to 195 years, this unused quantity is heart-breaking for scores of inexperienced card candidates ready in line.
The Good Information
USCIS has reported that the FY 2021 Worldwide Employment-based choice restrict is 262,288. It is a sharp improve from the restrict of 156,253 immigrant visas from final fiscal 12 months. And consequently, the employment-based immigrant visa restrict for Y 2022 is predicted to be even larger, and anticipated to be near 300,000!
The sudden improve in whole inexperienced playing cards being issued is due to the next causes –
- Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) pointers relating to immigrant visa limits and utilization;
- The Covid pandemic associated processing delays;
- The present gradual processing price at USCIS;
- The immigration ban of family-based immigrant visas instituted by former President Trump.
The one approach most variety of these inexperienced playing cards will be utilized is that if and when USCIS begins processing as many adjustment of standing functions as doable. Moreover, inexperienced card case processing might want to improve at U.S. consular posts and USCIS in a extra aggressive method.
Adjustment Of Standing Functions
USCIS can be utilizing the Last Motion Dates chart for employment-based adjustment of standing functions. To be eligible, overseas nationals might want to have a precedence date that’s sooner than the date listed beneath for his or her choice class and nation. Please observe: since India & China are predominant among the many provide of extremely expert workforce to the USA, we’re targeted on their precedence dates as a benchmark for developments –
- EB-1: All international locations, together with China and India, will stay present.
- EB-2: China will advance by three months to July 1, 2018, and India will advance by three months to September 1, 2011. All different international locations will stay present.
- EB-3 Professionals and Expert Staff: Cutoff dates for China will stay the identical at January 8, 2019, whereas India will advance six months to January 1, 2014. All different international locations will stay present.
- EB-5: The Non-Regional Heart program can be present for all international locations besides China. China will advance by one week to November 22, 2015.
EB-5 Program Standing
The Regional Heart program has expired and is listed as unavailable within the Visa Bulletin. If reauthorized, the Regional Heart program will mirror the Non-Regional Heart ultimate motion dates.
US Congress was anticipated to resume the EB-5 program however hasn’t up to now. Till then, USCIS has issued steerage on the best way to deal with your EB-5 petition.
