The
Department of State has just issued the August
2020 Visa Bulletin. This is the eleventh Visa Bulletin of Fiscal Year 2020.
This blog post analyzes this month's Visa Bulletin.
August
2020 Visa Bulletin
Table
A: Final Action Dates -- Applications with these dates may be approved for
their Green Card (Permanent Residency card) or Immigrant Visa appointment.
|
Employment-
based |
All
Other
|
CHINA
|
INDIA
|
PHILIPPINES
|
|
1st
|
C
|
08FEB18
|
08FEB18
|
C
|
|
2nd
|
C
|
15JAN16
|
08JUL09
|
C
|
|
3rd
|
01APR19
|
15FEB17
|
01OCT09
|
01APR19
|
MU Law Analysis
This
Visa Bulletin continued the big progressions that we saw in the June and July
Visa Bulletins. MU Law has
been calling on the DOS to rapidly advance the dates so that all immigrant
visas are used in 2020, and they finally responded in a big way. The big story is the one-year progression Worldwide
EB-3 and Philippines EB-3. These EB-3 dates
are now at April 2019.
The
good news was not limited to those categories.
India EB-1 and India EB-3 also jumped forward. EB-1 moved ahead ten months to February 2018,
and EB-3 by five months, to October 2009.
Only India EB-2 disappointed, staying at July 8, 2009. India EB-2 and EB-3 are inverted. MU Law expects India EB-2 and EB-3 to move in
sync for the foreseeable future. EB-2s
will downgrade their petitions to EB-3 to take advantage of the more favorable
processing date, leading to an equilibrium between the two categories.
All
of the China categories moved forward as well, as expected in a year where few
immigrant visa have been issued.
MU
Law expects the favorable employment-based visa dates to continue next fiscal
year. We explained why on this
blog post.
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