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Form I-485 (?Application for Adjustment of Status?): Family-based green card applications (in other words, immediate relatives or spouses of a U.S. citizen) for applicants filing from within the United States average 11.3 months.

The visa bulletin is issued every month by the Department of State. It shows which green card applications can move forward, based on when the I-130 petition that starts the green card process was originally filed.

DOS currently estimates that the FY 2023 employment-based annual limit will be approximately 197,000, due to approximately 57,000 unused family-sponsored visa numbers from FY 2022 being added to the employment-based limit for FY 2023.

The fiscal year 2023 limit for employment-based preference immigrants calculated under INA 201 is 197,091. Section 202 prescribes that the per-country limit for preference immigrants is set at 7% of the total annual family-sponsored and employment-based preference limits, i.e., 29,616 for FY-2023.

The combination of more people applying and slower processing due to added requirements created the perfect storm, causing the USCIS backlog to nearly double.

The case is ?documentarily complete? for the purposes of making a decision. There are signs the NVC backlog is getting better, but dramatic improvements are unlikely in 2023.

The visa number used by USCIS and the Department of State has been steady in FY 2023. As we are coming to the end of the year in September 2023, most Employment-Based (EB) preference category limits and overall, EB visas available are projected to be reached this month.