Tag Date Bulletin For Free

As cycle times improve, processing times will follow, and applicants and petitioners will receive decisions on their cases more quickly. USCIS will increase capacity, improve technology, and expand staffing to achieve these new goals by the end of FY 2023.

There aren't enough visas available. That's the entire problem.

When will the Final Action Date for India EB-3 advance, or return to where it was in June? The annual limits will reset with the start of the new fiscal year (FY2024), on October 1, 2023.

F1 is adult unmarried children of US citizens, F2A is spouses and minor children (under 21 and unmarried) of lawful permanent residents or green card holders. F2B is adult unmarried children of permanent residents (21 and older), F3 is married children of US citizens, and F4 is siblings of US citizens.

Current: In the context of the visa bulletin, ?current? means no backlog and no wait time for a green card. A particular priority date becomes ?current? once it reaches the front of the line and a green card is available.

The US Department of State has released its October 2023 Visa Bulletin outlining per-country priority date cutoffs that regulate immigrant visa availability and the flow of adjustment of status application and consular immigrant visa application filings and approvals.

On Friday, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said that it was extending the maximum validity period of Employment Authorization Documents (EAD) to 5 years for initial and renewal EADs for certain non-citizens who need to apply for employment authorization.

A. 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.