What to Expect in the Visa Bulletin
EB-1 Worldwide: expected to remain current through September 2017.
EB-1 China and India: demand had decreased compared to earlier in the fiscal year. If this reduced level of demand is sustained into the summer, a cut-off date may not have to be imposed until August 2017. Of course, if demand goes back up, a cut-off date could be imposed earlier.
EB-2 and EB-3 China: In the March Visa Bulletin, the EB-3 China Final Action date is 15 months ahead of EB-2 China. This will likely result in downgrades from EB-2 to EB-3, but that is not likely to materialize until April or May. This means that EB-2 won’t be able to move as much for now and the gap between EB-2 and EB-3 will likely remain for the spring. Demand for EB-3 China is starting to increase, but it is not a substantial increase and the monthly usage in this category has been below the targeted number. This means there are some reserved in case EB-3 China demand starts to increase more rapidly.
EB-2 India: There seems to be slightly lower demand for upgrades from EB-3 to EB-2 which allowed for more forward movement than previously expected. The date was also moved forward to try to limit the impact of expiring medical exams. It is hoped that this category will advance at a pace of up to one month at a time for April, May and June. However, if EB-3 upgrades increase once again, movement in this category could slow or stop in the coming months.
EB-3 Worldwide: demand remains relatively low. Movement at a pace of up to three months at a time in this category is still expected through the spring.
EB-3 India: extremely limited forward movement expected.
EB-3 Philippines: Lower demand for EB-1 and EB-2 Philippines has allowed additional numbers to fall down to EB-3 Philippines and this category may advance up to six months at a time for April, May, and June.
EB-5 China: should continue to advance at a rate of only 1 to 2 weeks through the spring.
Source: http://immigrationgirl.com/what-to-e...february-2017/
Why is EB3 ROW not current?
Spec or Others who understand this,
EB3 Row is at Dec2016 in March bulletin. Now it is predicted to move forward by another 3 months, which will take it to Feb or Mar2017. For April2017, how is that not practically current? And, how can it move forward another 3 months for the subsequent bulletins? Why do you think the category is not being marked "C"?
Filing date movement question
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Originally Posted by
Spectator
As has been mentioned before, over 2/3 of March 2005 EB3-I cases are concentrated in the period March 22 to March 31.
The 2 days covered in the movement (March 22 and March 23 2005) probably contain between 350-400 cases (likely around 17% of all March 2005 cases). That's more than a week of previous movement in March 2005 contained.
The 2 days after that are the most congested. March 24 and March 25 probably contain around 1,000 cases between them (about 46% of March 2005).
It's quite possible the next movement could be only one day, unless it happens at a time when SO can cover the movement.
PS Although it has happened a very, very, very long time ago, this is the first time I have seen a movement to a date that was not either 1, 8, 15 or 22 in the month. I believe the above figures suggest why it has happened.
In the April visa bulletin - EB3 China final action date is ahead of filing date. Why were the Filing dates not moved with the Final Action date?
Shouldn't DOS move the filing date 3 to 6 months in advance of the final action date catching up to complete the pre-adjudication process (the very intent of the dual chart visa bulletin system) ? Or is it a rule that filing dates would only move once a year at the beginning of the fiscal year?
What happens for EB3 India if we're to get some spillover this summer? If dates do move past march 2005 in summer will we see similar to China where the final action date cross the filing date of 01 JUL 05?
Shouldn't the filing date be moved prior ?
DOS FY2016 Visa Statistics Published (Finally)
FY2016-EB Visa Approvals
- Country --- EB1 ----- EB2 ----- EB3 ----- EB4 ---- EB5 ---- Total
CHINA ----- 6,711 --- 2,837 --- 2,815 ----- 107 -- 7,516 --- 19,986
INDIA ---- 10,985 --- 3,930 --- 4,617 ----- 720 ---- 149 --- 20,401
MEXICO ---- 1,720 --- 1,449 --- 2,058 ----- 765 ----- 57 ---- 6,049
PHIL. ------- 173 --- 1,985 --- 6,579 ----- 164 ----- 16 ---- 8,917
ROW ------ 24,134 -- 28,910 -- 21,471 --- 8,273 -- 2,209 --- 84,997
TOTAL ---- 43,723 -- 39,111 -- 37,540 -- 10,029 -- 9,947 -- 140,350
S. KOREA -- 1,547 --- 5,157 --- 6,153 ----- 514 -----260 --- 13,631
More detail at http://www.qesehmk.org/forums/showth...8279#post58279
Original Data - https://travel.state.gov/content/dam...ort-TableV.pdf
