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Thank you for playing the greencard lottery. Please play again next year INDIA EMPLOYMENT SECOND PREFERENCE CUT-OFF DATE RETROGRESSION FOR JANUARY It has been necessary to once again retrogress the India Employment Second preference cut-off date. This is a direct result of continued...

You'll have to wait till the PD is current again.

Recapture of unused visa numbers would require a change in the law. Noone in congress has time to think about immigration now.

Time to reawaken this thread. What do you think EB-2 India will be in Jan 2008. My guess is Unavailable in Jan or Feb.

If you are EB-2 India, with a PD of Jul 2005, you should forget about greencard for next 5 or 10 years. To see why look at the annual quota and number of H-1Bs coming in every year.

I don't understand - are you hoping you will get youar GC even though visa number is not available? It's not happening! Those who got approved took all the visas. You are left with none, that's why the dates retrogressed.

WoM makes sense only if visa numbers are available. For a lot of people, namecheck delay is inconsequential.

Read the visa bulletin. See how the word "category" is used. For Example, the Dec. bulletin says: The cut-off date for an oversubscribed category is the priority date of the first applicant who could not be reached within the numerical limits. (Which is why if you are EB-3 or EB-2 India right...

Here's what the memo says "Can the adjustment application basaed on an approved immigrant petition (either I-130 or I-140) with a current priority date be transferred to a subsequent immigrant petition that is approved with a current priority date? In many instances, the answer is yes ..."...

Retrogression is guaranteed because visa demand far outstrips visa number availability. The Jul fiasco was, well, a fiasco. It's not going to repeat. For proof, see how EB-3 has remained retrogressed for long. The same thing is going to happen to EB-2.

I think it's going to be U soon. See the thread I created on this topic.

It's not opening anytime soon.

Without available visa numbers, this is useless.

Great idea - it won't happen though.

As per Pearson memo, you can port PD to existing AOS application only if both I-140 are current AND within same preference category, eg EB-3 to EB3 or EB-2 to EB-2.

If your PD is retrogressed, those two are pretty much the only things you can do.

Very few things in life you lose solely because of your place of birth. Guess American immigration is one of them. BTW, I am discontinuing the tracker - if anybody is interested in maintaining it, please import the HTML page into google spreadsheet.

So the door slams shut I guess it's a lottery. Some win, others lose.

The Dec bulletin says 38% of EB-2 India and China have been used up. I am assuming that means 38% India and 38% China quotas. The annual quota for each category is about 3000, which means about 1140 visas were used up as of end of first week of Nov. In my tracker, I counted 27 EB-2 India...

You can file WoM.