EB-3 Philippines

United States: July visa bulletin update: USCIS to honor employment-based final action dates only next month

USCIS has determined that, next month, it will only accept employment-based adjustment of status applications from foreign nationals with a priority date that is current for final action according to the State Department’s July Visa Bulletin. 

United States: July 2016 visa bulletin: Modest advancement in EB-2 and EB-3 India while China largely holds steady to June dates

According to the State Department’s July Visa Bulletin, there will be modest advancement in the cutoff dates for final issuance of an immigrant visa for EB-2 and EB-3 India next month, while these cutoff dates for China will remain largely unchanged, as projected last month.

USA: June 2016 Visa Bulletin

According to the State Department’s June Visa Bulletin, there will be significant retrogressions in the cut-off dates for final issuance of an immigrant visa for EB-2 India and China and EB-3 China next month, consistent with recent agency projections.  EB-2 India will retrogress by more than four years, to October 1, 2004, while EB-2 China will retrogress by 20 months, to January 1, 2010.  The EB-3 China cut-off date for professionals and skilled workers will move back by just over three years and seven months, to January 1, 2010.