Future PD Dates Movements
E. EMPLOYMENT-BASED VISA AVAILABILITY DURING THE COMING MONTHS
The current level of demand in many of the Employment-based categories has been much lower than anticipated. As a result, the June cut-off dates have been advanced significantly in an effort to maximize number use under the annual numerical limits. At this time it appears likely that there will be additional advances during the coming months.
All readers should be aware that such cut-off date movements should allow for action to be finalized on a significant number of Citizenship and Immigration Services adjustment of status cases. Once that level of demand begins to exceed the supply of available numbers it will be necessary to make “adjustments” to the cut-off dates. At this time is in not possible to estimate when this is likely to occur, but it is expected.
I think that because so many applications are stuck in name check, current demand for visa numbers is less. That must have triggered cut-off dates moving so much forward.
Once name check results start consuming the visa numbers, cut off dates may move backwards in the future.
so the point is, who ever gets name check results quickly will win this race!