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June 2023 Visa Bulletin

Xarthisius

Xarthisius

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C. THE DIVERSITY (DV) IMMIGRANT CATEGORY RANK CUT-OFFS WHICH WILL APPLY IN JULY

RegionAll DV Chargeability Areas Except
Those Listed Separately
AFRICA63,500Except: Algeria 40,000
Egypt 43,200
Morocco 63,000
ASIA21,000Except: Iran 12,500
Nepal 19,400
EUROPE32,000Except: Russia 32,000
Uzbekistan 15,000
NORTH AMERICA (BAHAMAS) Current
OCEANIA1,650
SOUTH AMERICA,
and the CARIBBEAN		2,900
 
Xarthisius said:
C. THE DIVERSITY (DV) IMMIGRANT CATEGORY RANK CUT-OFFS WHICH WILL APPLY IN JULY

RegionAll DV Chargeability Areas Except
Those Listed Separately
AFRICA63,500Except: Algeria 40,000
Egypt 43,200
Morocco 63,000
ASIA21,000Except: Iran 12,500
Nepal 19,400
EUROPE32,000Except: Russia 32,000
Uzbekistan 15,000
NORTH AMERICA (BAHAMAS)Current
OCEANIA1,650
SOUTH AMERICA,
and the CARIBBEAN		2,900
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Xarthisius said:
C. THE DIVERSITY (DV) IMMIGRANT CATEGORY RANK CUT-OFFS WHICH WILL APPLY IN JULY

RegionAll DV Chargeability Areas Except
Those Listed Separately
AFRICA63,500Except: Algeria 40,000
Egypt 43,200
Morocco 63,000
ASIA21,000Except: Iran 12,500
Nepal 19,400
EUROPE32,000Except: Russia 32,000
Uzbekistan 15,000
NORTH AMERICA (BAHAMAS)Current
OCEANIA1,650
SOUTH AMERICA,
and the CARIBBEAN		2,900
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Hi @Xarthisius ,,, I just took a look on the dv charts, I saw there is 33,600 issued visa and about 5500 under 221g and 19000 ready for interview, do you think these numbers are close to the numbers for the last year?
And do you think there’s enough visa remain to AOS?
 
Salemszzz said:
Hi @Xarthisius ,,, I just took a look on the dv charts, I saw there is 33,600 issued visa and about 5500 under 221g and 19000 ready for interview, do you think these numbers are close to the numbers for the last year?
And do you think there’s enough visa remain to AOS?
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Not sure what you mean by being "close to the last year". You have the numbers from the last year, you can calculate the exact difference...
As for the remaining visas, I think they're on a good track to use everything this year. Does it mean USCIS will at some point stop adjudicating I-485 for AOSers? I don't know. Last time such a thing happened was FY17.
 
Xarthisius said:
Not sure what you mean by being "close to the last year". You have the numbers from the last year, you can calculate the exact difference...
As for the remaining visas, I think they're on a good track to use everything this year. Does it mean USCIS will at some point stop adjudicating I-485 for AOSers? I don't know. Last time such a thing happened was FY17.
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Thank you for creating such a useful website.
As far as I understand, they stopped processing AOS cases at the beginning of September in 2017. It would be great to see how was the dv chart around these times for DV2017. Unfortunately, the slider is not functional. Is there a way to see the data at the beginning of September?
 
Yecoww said:
Thank you for creating such a useful website.
As far as I understand, they stopped processing AOS cases at the beginning of September in 2017. It would be great to see how was the dv chart around these times for DV2017. Unfortunately, the slider is not functional. Is there a way to see the data at the beginning of September?
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There's not. We've started scraping around that time.
 
Xarthisius said:
Not sure what you mean by being "close to the last year". You have the numbers from the last year, you can calculate the exact difference...
As for the remaining visas, I think they're on a good track to use everything this year. Does it mean USCIS will at some point stop adjudicating I-485 for AOSers? I don't know. Last time such a thing happened was FY17.
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I’m really confused why they stopped adjusting in FY17 and there was about 5k visas remaining?
 

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I’m really confused why they stopped adjusting in FY17 and there was about 5k visas remaining?
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You'd know if you read VB for FY17:
Section 203(c) of the INA provides up to 55,000 immigrant visas each fiscal year to permit additional immigration opportunities for persons from countries with low admissions during the previous five years. The NACARA stipulates that beginning with DV-99, and for as long as necessary, up to 5,000 of the 55,000 annually-allocated diversity visas will be made available for use under the NACARA program. This resulted in reduction of the DV-2017 annual limit to 50,000.
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They missed the target by a whooping 24 visas... The question should be why they went over the limit in e.g. FY13 and FY14, which vere also restricted to 50k? You could argue that NACARA gives them a little bit of flexibility that they've chosen not excersise in FY17 for some reason. What happened in FY22 though has no justification (55,882 issued) though, other than: "It's a hard problem to coordinate all the things"
 
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