EB3 / India - PD can move ahead by 1.5 years in 3 months

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MD_Rockville

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http://www.murthy.com/news/n_prmnow.html

I was reading this again and one thing i have noticed is EB3 PD moved ahead from 01 Sept 97 to 01 Jan 99 in 3 months..what we expect to happen this time ?

Also look above in the chart to know that PD moved by 4-5 months in 10 month timeframe as well..quite crazy :o
 
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TheRealCanadian said:
Exactly.
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Jan 2005 bulletin does say that there are unused visa.. do we know that they will be allocated for sure or some kind of legislation is required ? if yes, then is there a legislation pending to allocate those unused visa ?

there are not even 5 convincing approval posted ( EB3 and PD > 01/2002 , IND/CHI/PHI )..so i am sure that we are stuck in tunnel :o
 
Thats right,,,
We are scrued big time, Still i am confused on some issues.

We are not seeing that many approvals, Not sure this is due to affect of transfering the resouces to h1b1 processing for that new 20k quota.

If they don't want to process the PD affected cases, what else they are doing. Are they just eating/shiting in their office's and to expect for the new cases to be filled in future whose PD is not affected. :mad: :mad:

Now there are only two options to our cases...

If they reliase that there were only few cases to process whose pd < jan 02 or
By reliazing that the 50k numbers unused on 02,03,04.
 
Legislation is necessary to allocate the unused visas. There is one legislation pending from Lantos (D - California). It was posted on shusterman.com, but I could not find it now.

MD_Rockville said:
Jan 2005 bulletin does say that there are unused visa.. do we know that they will be allocated for sure or some kind of legislation is required ? if yes, then is there a legislation pending to allocate those unused visa ?

there are not even 5 convincing approval posted ( EB3 and PD > 01/2002 , IND/CHI/PHI )..so i am sure that we are stuck in tunnel :o
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If at all they have delegated resources for H1b process then I think we may have to wait for another 2 months till we see any appreciable movement on 485....Thats what happened last year when resources were delegated for 140 processing !!!




dbwr said:
Thats right,,,
We are scrued big time, Still i am confused on some issues.

We are not seeing that many approvals, Not sure this is due to affect of transfering the resouces to h1b1 processing for that new 20k quota.

If they don't want to process the PD affected cases, what else they are doing. Are they just eating/shiting in their office's and to expect for the new cases to be filled in future whose PD is not affected. :mad: :mad:

Now there are only two options to our cases...

If they reliase that there were only few cases to process whose pd < jan 02 or
By reliazing that the 50k numbers unused on 02,03,04.
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MD_Rockville said:
Jan 2005 bulletin does say that there are unused visa.. do we know that they will be allocated for sure or some kind of legislation is required ? if yes, then is there a legislation pending to allocate those unused visa ?
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If I recall the visa bulletin correctly, the current I/C/P retrogression is not caused by these three countries hitting the per-country limit, since I think AC21 eliminated that.

The INA states that in each fiscal quarter, no more than 27% of all visas in a particular category may be allocated. I believe they hit that number in 1Q2005, and therefore needed to "throttle back" to prevent busting through that again.

Of course, others have stated that although the per-country limits are gone overall per AC21, they might still be in effect throughout the first part of the year, and then if there's stuff left over in Q3 and Q4, they do not apply. I'm a little skeptical, but it's possible.

Ultimately, priority date calculation is a black art - performed by gnomes in the bowels of Foggy Bottom. USCIS appears rational and predictable by comparison. :)

I think at the start of Q3, you'll see forward movement, but I don't expect anything dramatic. Then agan, in the past six years I've been wrong before, and by a lot.
 
TheRealCanadian said:
The INA states that in each fiscal quarter, no more than 27% of all visas in a particular category may be allocated. I believe they hit that number in 1Q2005, and therefore needed to "throttle back" to prevent busting through that again.
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Thanks for response..
what I understand is they have exhausted 1Q2005 quota ..or they have exhausted 2Q2005 quota as well ?
Visa # could have been allocated to earlier PD without retrogressing it officially !!
 
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