The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will use the Final Action Dates for Employment-Based Adjustment of Status Applications chart in March 2025. The Final Action Dates chart reflects slight advancement across...more
The Department of State released the March 2025 Visa Bulletin and USCIS has confirmed they will continue to utilize the Final Action Dates chart for employment-based Adjustment of Status applications. The Final Action Dates...more
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will use the Final Action Dates for Employment-Based Adjustment of Status Applications chart in February 2025. The Final Action Dates chart reflects minor advancement in...more
Along with the New Year, January 1st also marks the implementation of a new Visa Bulletin by the U.S. Department of State....more
The Department of State released the January 2024 Visa Bulletin and USCIS has confirmed they will accept employment-based Adjustment of Status applications based on the Dates for Filing chart. All employment-based categories...more
The U.S. Department of State’s December 2024 Visa Bulletin shows advances in the final action dates for India under categories EB-2 and EB-3, while the dates for filing of employment-based visa applications remain unchanged....more
The Department of State released the December 2024 Visa Bulletin and USCIS will continue to accept employment-based Adjustment of Status applications based on the more advanced Dates for Filing chart. All employment-based...more
The Department of State released the November 2024 Visa Bulletin and USCIS will continue to accept employment-based Adjustment of Status applications based on the Dates for Filing chart. All employment-based categories...more
The Department of State released the September 2024 Visa Bulletin. USCIS will continue to accept employment-based Adjustment of Status applications based on the Final Action Dates chart. Most Employment-Based Categories will...more
The Department of State released the May 2024 Visa Bulletin. USCIS will continue to accept employment-based Adjustment of Status applications based on the Final Action Dates chart. Most Employment-Based Categories will hold...more
The March 2024 Visa Bulletin has been released by the U.S. Department of State and shows little movement from last month....more
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will use the Dates for Filing Chart in December 2023. The US Department of State Visa Bulletin for December 2023 reflects no advancement in priority date cutoff dates in the...more
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs’ May 2023 Visa Bulletin shows a trend of backlogs and slowdowns in the employment-based immigrant visa or green card process. The final action dates for multiple...more
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services will use the Final Action Dates for Employment-Based Adjustment of Status Applications chart in May 2023. Chart updates include significant retrogression for the EB-2 and EB-3...more
The Department of State released the May 2023 Visa Bulletin. There are a few notable developments for employment-based applicants, including further retrogression and expected retrogression for several categories: - USCIS...more
The US Department of State has released its November 2022 Visa Bulletin, outlining per-country priority date cutoffs that regulate immigrant visa availability and the flow of adjustment of status application and consular...more
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) released its Visa Bulletin for October 2022. The Visa Bulletin is a monthly DOS publication regarding immigrant visa availability. The Bulletin lists the cut-off dates that govern visa...more
US Citizenship and Immigration Services will use the Dates for Filing Chart in October 2022. EB-2 India will retrogress to May 1, 2012. Additionally, Final Action cutoff dates for India EB-2 and EB-3 will retrogress to April...more
In the September 2022 Visa Bulletin, visa numbers in certain categories may become unavailable mid-month. Other Workers from All Chargeability Areas, Mexico, and the Philippines will retrogress to May 8, 2019. All other Final...more
The U.S. Department of State’s July 2022 Visa Bulletin indicates a significant advancement for Indian nationals in the second preference category for employment-based (EB-2) visas. On February 18, 2022, U.S. Citizenship...more
In August 2022, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services will use the Final Action chart. China and India EB-3 Final Action cutoff dates will advance by one month, as will India Other Workers cutoff dates. EB-2 and all...more
In July 2022, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services will use the Final Action chart. China EB-2 Final Action cutoff dates will advance by one month and India EB-2 Final Action cutoff dates will advance by three months....more
In June 2022, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services will use the Final Action chart. India EB-2 Final Action cutoff dates will advance by one year, while all other Final Action cutoff dates remain unchanged....more
There is little change in the Dates for Filing chart for March 2022, but some retrogression in the EB-4 classification cutoff dates for El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras....more
The Dates for Filing Chart for January 2022 remains unchanged. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services continues to use the “Dates for Filing” chart for employment-based adjustment of status. The US Department of State...more