August 2019 Visa Bulletin Commentary
The August 2019 Visa Bulletin was just released, and with it came unprecedented retrogression in almost all employment-based categories. EB1 All Countries retrogressed nearly two years, to a final action[…]
Category: Visa Bulletins
August 2019 Visa Bulletin Is Out
The Department of State has published the August 2019 Visa Bulletin. Here is a link and our usual commentary to follow shortly. In the meantime, there are two big high[…]
Expect EB-2/EB-3 Worldwide Retrogression In The Coming Months
According to the Department of State, the EB-2 and EB-3 Worldwide categories, which have fortunately remained current for quite some time, may experience retrogression in the coming months. The demand[…]
July 2019 Visa Bulletin Commentary
The July 2019 Visa Bulletin was just released. Two major developments that will occur for next month is that the F2A family-based preference category will become current for all countries[…]
June 2019 Visa Bulletin Commentary
The June 2019 Visa Bulletin was just released. Most jarring was the massive retrogression that occurred for the EB1 India category, which retrogressed an astonishing 2 years, 1 month, and[…]
May 2019 Visa Bulletin Commentary
The May 2019 Visa Bulletin was just released. EB1 all countries is disappointingly still not current, and shows no signs of becoming so any time soon. However, the date for[…]
April 2019 Visa Bulletin Commentary
The April 2019 Visa Bulletin was just released. Below are the new priority dates. Once again, it is very disappointing to see that EB1 all countries is still not current,[…]
March 2019 Visa Bulletin Commentary
The March 2019 Visa Bulletin was released last Friday. Below are the new priority dates. It was disappointing to see that EB1 all countries is still not current, and the priority[…]
February 2019 Visa Bulletin Commentary
February 2019 Visa Bulletin Commentary February 2019 For all countries except India, China, Philippines, and Mexico: F2A category priority date advances 23 days to 1 December 2016, F2B preference[…]
December 2018 Visa Bulletin Commentary
The December 2018 visa bulletin was released yesterday. It made for very disappointing reading as EB1 did not become ‘current’ as we were anticipating. The visa bulletin has never been[…]