According to the conservative estimates, the EB3 India/China would move one month/year. There are lot more people in the EB3 than EB2. Since, the numbers of visas are same for the both EB3 and EB2, the EB2 would move much faster than EB3. I've an appeal for all the EB3 people if you are:
a. from India and your priority date is before 09 JAN 2003
b. from china and your priority date is before 23 APR 2005
c. from ROW with any priority date
and, you qualify for EB2 now (you waited for so long for your labor, you may have 5yrs of experience), please consider re-filing your labor and/or I-140 in EB2 and retain your EB3 priority date. Of course, this does have financial impact on you or your company (whoever is enduring the GC process bill). But, it would help you and the EB3 community enormously by:
a. you will have the GC sooner (with 100's of potential benefits thereafter)
b. the EB3 community will have few less people in the queue with the hope that it would move little faster than current estimates.
a. from India and your priority date is before 09 JAN 2003
b. from china and your priority date is before 23 APR 2005
c. from ROW with any priority date
and, you qualify for EB2 now (you waited for so long for your labor, you may have 5yrs of experience), please consider re-filing your labor and/or I-140 in EB2 and retain your EB3 priority date. Of course, this does have financial impact on you or your company (whoever is enduring the GC process bill). But, it would help you and the EB3 community enormously by:
a. you will have the GC sooner (with 100's of potential benefits thereafter)
b. the EB3 community will have few less people in the queue with the hope that it would move little faster than current estimates.