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China-Mainland Born and India EB-2 FY2012 Annual Limit Reached

The below post confirms that we will need to wait until October 2012 (fiscal year 2013 starts then) for any news on EB2 visa priority dates for India and China. – Tahmina

Cite as “AILA InfoNet Doc. No. 12042360 (posted Apr. 23, 2012)”

AILA has confirmed with the State Department that the annual limit in the EB-2 category for China-mainland born and India has been reached. The State Department notified USCIS on April 11, 2012, that no further visas for those categories would be authorized. This is the “additional corrective action” that was forecast as a possibility in Section D of the May 2012 Visa Bulletin (AILA Doc. No. 12040652). USCIS will continue to accept adjustment applications based upon cut-off dates published in the April and May Visa Bulletins. However, requests from USCIS service centers and field offices for visas in the EB-2 category aliens chargeable to China-mainland born or India will be retained by DOS for authorization in FY2013, beginning on October 1, 2012.