The
Department of State’s Visa Bulletin guru, Charlie Oppenheim, hosts monthly
meetings with the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Mr. Oppenheim is the Department of State’s
Chief of the Control and Reporting Division. He is the officer who is
responsible for producing the Visa Bulletin each month.
Charlie
offered a number of interesting observations about the March Visa Bulletin,
which resulted in a
retrogression for EB-3.
-Because
of the potential for USCIS to move resources to EB-1 and EB-2 and the
unpredictability in processing times that will be caused by such a resource
allocation, Charlie does not expect any forward movement to the EB-3. The absolute earliest would be the May 2020
or June 2020 Visa Bulletin, but EB-3 could remain at January 2017 until the end
of the fiscal year. Charlie did assure
readers that
-While
it is expected that the implementation of the public charge rules may slow
USCIS processing times, any potential slowdown at USCIS has not been factored
into the March Visa Bulletin.
-DOS
was not surprised that the retrogression happened in March, in spite of the
January and February progression of dates in some EB-3 categories. DOS wanted to wait until it was certain that
the increase in demand was not showing any signs of decline.
Hello, will the eb3 table b(date of filling) move forward this coming months?
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ReplyDeletehi sir how about those PD is December 2018?When will be the possible movement for that?thanks.
ReplyDeletethere was no movement for everyone aside for india, yes i understand that they are backlogged for a long time, but the current movement for them makes no sense at all, they have the same movement if not faster. the usual movement for eb3 india is 1 day to 1 week per visa bulletin. this shows they are pushing for india
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