Wednesday, March 22, 2023

APRIL 2023 VISA BULLETIN: ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION

The Department of State recently issued the April 2023 Visa Bulletin. This blog post analyzes this month's Visa Bulletin. 

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. 

 

EB 

All Other 

CHINA 

INDIA 

PHILIPPINES 

1st 

01FEB22

01FEB22

2nd 

01JUL22

 08JUN19

01JAN11

01JUL22

3rd 

 01NOV18

15JUN12

Other workers

01JAN20

01OCT14

15JUN12

01JAN20

Table B: Dates of Filing

The USCIS will be using Table A: Final Action Dates chart for I-485 employment-based filings. A beneficiary must be current on the above Table A chart in order to file their I-485, Adjustment of Status applications. See: USCIS Visa Bulletin Dates   

MU Law Analysis 

This month again there was good news and bad news for the retrogressed EB-2 and EB-3 categories. 

There was a retrogression in all categories of EB-2 except China due to high demand. Philippine and ROW retrogressed by four months whereas India unexpectedly retrogressed by nine months.  

The news remains positive for Philippine and Worldwide EB-3, where dates held at Current. China EB-3 progressed three months, which was unexpected, good news. 

 

Increased demand in the Employment Third category may necessitate the establishment of a worldwide final action date (including Mexico and Philippines) in the coming months. This means that all EB-3 categories are expected to retrogress by the end of the fiscal year.


EB-3 Other Workers, which is the category for occupations such as Nurse Aides, remains retrogressed but held steady to January 2020 for Philippine and ROW.  

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