Visa Bulletin

In the recently published April Visa Bulletin, the Department of State advanced the Date for Filing (also known as the application date) applications for an immigrant visa or adjustment of status in the employment-based, second preference (EB-2) category for India from Sept. 1, 2013, to Sept. 1, 2014.
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The Department of State (DOS) of the United States declared that the demand for green cards (immigrant visas) is high because the COVID-19 pandemic is still disrupting and delaying appointments at US consulates overseas. Approximately 100,000 employment-based immigrant visas remain unused, so the DOS has allowed more immigrants currently in the US to apply for green cards than usual.
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The US Department of State released the November 2020 Visa Bulletin. This Visa Bulletin shows backlogs for people seeking to acquire green cards for both family-based cases and employment-based cases. Here are the key takeaways for the employment-based visa categories:
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The US Department of State released the October 2020 Visa Bulletin (its first visa bulletin for the Fiscal Year 2021). This Visa Bulletin shows backlogs for people acquiring green cards in two categories. These include the employment-based category and the family category. Here are the key takeaways about the employment category in this visa bulletin.

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The U.S. government issues immigrant visas to those qualifying individuals who intend to permanently live in the U.
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Priority dates in the upcoming July Visa Bulletin are expected to change drastically, both for better and for worse. In good news, the Worldwide Family 2A category for spouses and minor, unmarried children of green card holders will become current in July, thus erasing the 2-year backlog. Green card holders should make sure to sponsor your children and/or spouse as soon as possible; if your children and/or spouse are already sponsored, you should be applying for their green cards as soon as you can.
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On a monthly basis, the DOS Liaison Committee performs check-ins with a representative from the DOS. For May 2019, the question asked was regarding the EB-3 Worldwide visa; specificall
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The December 2018 Visa Bulletin brings some welcome changes—a three month advancement across the EB-1 categories; the EB-2 China Final Action Date again surpassing EB-3 China; the gap between EB-2 India and EB-3 India narrowing to one month; EB-4 El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras advancing one week; EB-4 Mexico advancing five weeks; and EB-5 China advancing one week, while EB-5 Vietnam advances three months.
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DOS provides the following in response to recent inquiries regarding visa availability for the EB-1, EB-2, EB-3, and Third "Other Workers" (EW) preference categories.
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Family-Based Preference Categories

As noted in the August 2018 Visa Bulletin, the final action dates for FB-3 India and/or FB-4 India were originally expected to retrogress in September. According to the latest information from the NVC regarding documentarily qualified demand,
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Employment-Based Preference Categories

EB-1 China and EB-1 India remain steady at January 1, 2012, and DOS anticipates this date will hold for the remainder of the fiscal year. It is hoped that these categories will become current again on October 1, 2018,
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