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What Is a Priority Date? Your priority date determines your spot in line as you wait to receive a visa or green card. If your priority date is ?current,? you won't have to wait for a visa or green card. Your priority date becoming ?current? depends on your preference category and whether USCIS faces any backlogs.

Once your case number is current in the Visa Bulletin, you can check your status via . There you will see the exact time and date of your interview appointment. Please print it out and bring it with you to the US embassy. Please note: A postal invitation is no longer sent out!

The application date for an oversubscribed category is the priority date of the first applicant who cannot submit documentation to the National Visa Center for an immigrant visa. If a category is designated ?current,? all applicants in the relevant category may file applications, regardless of priority date.

In the April 2023 Visa Bulletin, the EB-2 final action dates for Rest of World, Mexico, and the Philippines retrogressed to keep number use within the FY 2023 annual limit. This was due to higher than expected demand from applicants with priority dates earlier than the established final action dates.

These are the steps to determine whether the priority date of your immigrant visa is ?current?, meaning whether your immigrant visa is available. It is your responsibility to track when your immigrant visa becomes available.

You will find out when your priority date appears in the U.S. Department of State's Visa Bulletin. After that, you can apply for a green card from within the United States or at a U.S. consulate abroad. It generally takes about two years for a green card to become available, and the whole process can take three years.

In the first few months of 2023, we have continued to see improvements in processing times for many petitions and applications. For example, the current processing time for the I-129 petition is approximately 2 months.

When the dates for filing show as ?C? or ?Current?, it means that the foreigner doesn't have to wait anymore to apply for a visa interview at the U.S. consulate in their country for the immigrant visa. They can also file applications for green cards with USCIS without having to wait.

After the NVC sends you this confirmation, then you can expect to wait between 2-6 months for the NVC to schedule you an interview at the U.S. consulate in your home country.

How long does it take to get an appointment? Although NVC strives to schedule appointments within three months of NVC's acceptance of all requested documentation, this timeframe is subject to the operating status and capacity of the consular section.