Originally Posted by
Spectator
drugoi,
Welcome to the forum.
I can only give you my personal opinion. If it's any consolation, I can't work out EB3 numbers from the PERM data either.
Judging by the Demand Data and progress to date, plus CO's comments in the December VB on likely movement in coming months, EB3 ROW, Mexico and China look like they will exhaust the current backlog not later than July 2013. The same cannot be said for EB3-Philippines, who appear to have very high demand compared to visas available.
To ensure that visas allocated to EB3 ROW-M-C are not wasted, CO is going to have to advance the Cut Off Dates beyond July 2007 several months before that point (at least that is what happened when EB2-IC were in a similar position) to build up an Inventory and ensure that approvals can continue throughout the FY.
The caveat is, that if there are cases that have not yet been pre-adjudicated, then the Demand Data will be showing artificially low numbers and it will take longer to exhaust the backlog.