No Retrogression Until 09/30/2004 - Is this good or bad?!

[bajis]

03/04/03: State Department Predicts No EB-Priority Date Retrogression Until 09/30/2004

Charles Oppenheim of the DOS predicts that based on visa number use during the past two years he expects the Employment-based categories to remain "Current" (with the possible exception of the Other Workers category) through at least the end of FY-2004. Changes in demand from the immigration and Naturalization Service could impact this estimate and require the AC21 "pool" to be used up earlier, resulting in some Employment categories becoming oversubscribed. One such factor can be the launch of PERM labor certification application system and the INS pace of 485 processding time reduction implementation.

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This won't help speeding up the approval process. But if they do retrogress, won't it reduce the number of I485 petitions pending with TSC?

 

[saimural]

This Helps

This really helps, I was afraid of Priority Date Retrogression, If it does, the 485 Cases will be put on hold until Induvidual priority dates becomes current.


Eg: If your Priority date is Jan 2001 and if the Date Retrogression is Jan 2000 you have to wait until the Retrogressed date moves forward to Jan 2001 for INS to work on your case.