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The government estimates that 165,000 green cards will be available to persons in the employment categories in Fiscal Year 2024, down from 197,000 in FY 2023, but 25,000 higher than the 140,000 mandated by law as the result of 25,000 unused family-based green cards in Fiscal Year 2023.

You have reached the front of the line when your priority date becomes "current." The U.S. Department of State publishes a monthly visa bulletin that lists the priority dates which have become current. In other words, these are the priority dates that now have an immigrant visa available to be claimed.

Policy changes, like those made during the Trump administration, can greatly affect how long it takes for USCIS to do its work. One big change was that application forms, especially for employment authorization documents, got longer and more complicated.

Why is the family Visa Bulletin stuck? The Final Action Dates (F.A.D) are not moving forward because of the significant backlog of 'documentarily complete' cases created during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Visa Bulletin is a monthly publication that provides updated monthly numbers of the list of applicants and the "current" priority date for those applicants. The publication normally is issued the second or third week of each month.

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 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.