It's all depends on USCIS ability to issue 261,500 GCs by Sep2021.. if they really want to do that then they will not retrogress the dates till Sep..they will move FAD rapidly and match with FD by Sep..
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Can you please let me know on my below situation -
Need help group - my PD - Jan 2014 EB2, Spouse's PD - Mar 2016 EB2. I am planning to downgrade from EB2 to EB3 and avail of the EAD option. The bulletin was so confusing, they talk abt 260K visas, but practically 2 months movement in the FAD for EB2 and EB3. Is there any way that EB2 FD can come any close to 2014 this fiscal year? Is what I am planning to do correct, in the current circumstances. Or rapid movement may mean couple of years of movement in EB2. Have been doing a lot of math with pending visa numbers, I140s etc, but honestly nothing makes complete sense .. Please help!
I-944 queries:
"Part 3. Your and your household members assets, resources..." <- This section has space for 3 household persons. Do we have to only fill 2 entries - spouse and applicant here and not the kids? Family information including kids already comes in section "Part 2. Family Status".
or.
Fill 3 members here and 4th one in "Part 9. Additional Information".
The filing dates (DF) are determined based on expected movement at the end of the year. There are 4 times more people in EB2I queue when compared to EB3I queue. That's why EB3I DF had moved 1795 days versus 638 days for EB2I. If you are in 2014, then it may be better to get EAD. But please note that final action dates are based on many other things. As more people port to EB3I it will slow and clog. DOS talks to USCIS to make sure that it has capacity to process GCs. That is one of the reasons why you will see less movement for "FA" dates. Hope this helps.
In my opinion rapid movement may mean 1 to 3 months movement for FA dates. Anything more than that I will be surprised and extremely happy. Just note that before COVID, EB2I was moving 2-3 days per month (or 1.5 months per year). So rapid movement is left to your interpretation.
I think they are again going to release Nov bulletin as late as possible, not to antagonize us, but to find out how many people are going to file under the different classifications per the new filing dates. Simple math for EB2I suggests that if they want to reach 15 May 2011 from Sep 09, they just move it 2-3 months every bulletin to manage the flow of applications better. That's why I am really surprised about them moving EB3 to 2015. No question, it's a boon to all those waiting years, but it will once again severely muddy the waters because of the mass downgrades.
If you check my previous posts I'm cautious on that all this happens if USCIS is committed to issue 261,500 visas in next 364 days and in the given circumstances to achieve that only option is to supply the visas where demand exists and that demand exists or generated in all EB categories for India. If you see one indicator of I-140 approvals in 2020 FY it has been dropped to 2009 levels in 2020 FY. This will convert into less demand for ROW in 2021 FY. So in net effect in 2021 FY Indians will get at least 150K visas(it can be even more). In all of my responses the basis is this: Indians will get a total of 150K EB visas in FY21 provided USCIS has to commit to allocate 261,500 visas in FY21. To arrive at this conclusion there is not much calculations are needed. Also, I don't consider that these downgrades will create a tectonic shift of demand from EB2I to EB3I. Even if it happens in a significant portion the supply is huge and that will evens out somehow.
I respect your concern and I'll back-off little bit now till everyone syncs with my logic may be after 2 months from now by seeing the trends then I can predict more. Lets wait and see.
If anyone need more latest data on the stats check this link: https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-...tizenship-data
If they move the FA dates 2-3 months for every bulletin through January as they indicated, that would be a good outcome. Beyond that, I guess it will depend on the applications that they receive in the first quarter.
The children don't have any income so they don't have to be declared under "Household Income" in Part 3 because they don't contribute to the assets/income. All they are trying to find out is if you earn less than 125% of the Federal Poverty guidelines.
So yes, they do have to be reported under Part 2, but not Part 3, since your original question was for Part 3.
Hi Friends, I am EB2 Jun 2011 . My attorney is suggesting to wait for the Nov Bulletin and apply in EB2 if the dates move forward, and if not then downgrade to EB3 before Oct 31. Do you think it is a wise strategy ?
My wife's employer has 30 people who became current and filing I-485s for them and their families. The HR mentioned they're focused on filing I-485 right now and so will not be filing I-485j along with the application and will submit that when the RFE comes and mention this is their standard practice.....anyone come across that?
My company attorney team says they are planning to file Adjustment of status end of October, this is crazy and I am done with all our action items from our end, it takes a month to prepare the application? I am considering to file myself, any thoughts?
Anyone planning so or should I look for a different attorney.
Just saying we need to stay true to the name of the thread i.e. "calculations". Somebody like you who has been putting great thoughts out - people tend to hang their hat on. Hence it is a good idea to use data, calculations, be conservative and then add caveats!
Thanks for your posts. I hope you under my only intention is to keep things as real as possible without too much pessimism or optimism.
Thankyou guru