EB3 to EB2 Portings or Conversions
Dec 2009 Inventory - 40022 (Assume 750, quarterly allocation was used from Oct to Dec)
Oct 2010 Inventory - 24254.
The difference is ~ 16K. India allocation was 20K per the AILA report.
So PD porting + PWMB is ~ 4.5K (Taking into account oct to Dec offset).
I believe PD porting for india was ~4K last year.
Friends please review.
Is there a limit as to how many EB3 can be ported to EB2
Is there a limit as to how many EB3 can be ported to EB2
EB3 to EB2 porting question
Hi q and other folks who are leading this thread,
Have been following your work for several months..kudos to you for unraveling the EB calculations.
I recently read on some publication (I think it was an attorney blog/website) that there are around 60,000 pending applications for porting from EB3 to EB2.
Is your assumption of 4k to 5K porting for 2011 based on the 1) previous history and 2) speed with which the USCIS will actually adjudicate these porting applications thereby making some EB3 folks eligible for EB2?
Quarterly spillover happen in 2009-2010 ?
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Originally Posted by
qesehmk
If there were no porting then January bulletin would certainly have movement. Given that there is 4K annual porting and conservatively assumign that 50% is India, then that plus backlog through May 06 is 3K which is equivalent to annual EB2I max allocation. So unfortunately you could very well be in a long wait unfortunately.
I am sorry to say this. However if Qly spillover is applied this year then it could be a matter of 2-3 months from now. Good luck!
Q, did Quarterly spillover happen in 2009-2010 ? And ff they do apply it this time, would it be in December or January?
Are you sure it is Porting?
I'm not convinced we can deduce that Porting is using up the numbers from the statements in the article, although that would make much more sense.
The actual quote says:
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The disappointing news is that the projections for EB2 for India born applicants will not advance for several months. For the months of October and November 2010, the Department of State has used 700 EB2 numbers and that does not count the demand for USCIS for EB2 numbers.
To take the statement as constructed, if it is not including demand from USCIS, that is effectively saying the demand was from Consular Processing.
Very few, if any, Porting cases would come from CP - they would almost exclusively be from AOS and therefore be classified under demand from USCIS.
Alternatively, you can argue that the only NEW demand for EB2-I cases from USCIS that would be Current (excluding very few DO cases) would be from Porting cases and the wording seems to rule those out as being included in the 700 figure.
At best, it is an extremely woolly statement.