Predicted Priority Dates for final quarter of FY2005

Its on the news ticker on the right hand side. Its third from the top. Again it is just his opinion. I dont think he has any substantial evidence to support it.
 
Agree, There seems to be some confict with their own views that were expressed in their earlier bulletin. I am very optimistic that the dates will move to a reasonably comfortable level.
nyte_crawler said:
Its on the news ticker on the right hand side. Its third from the top. Again it is just his opinion. I dont think he has any substantial evidence to support it.
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well it seems like its only gonna get worse for the rest of 2005.

VISA AVAILABILITY DURING THE REMAINDER OF FY-2005

Employment-based: During the past month there has been a significant increase in the amount of numbers being used by Citizenship and Immigration Service (CIS) offices for adjustment of status applicants. This level of demand has significantly depleted the supply of Employment-based numbers available under the annual limit. Recent discussions with CIS have made it clear that their backlog reduction efforts will sustain or increase the current level of demand. Therefore, continued visa availability in the Employment-based categories cannot be guaranteed during the final quarter of FY-2005. If demand continues at the current rate, it will be necessary to oversubscribe many or all of the Employment categories on a Worldwide basis. Such oversubscription could result in the establishment of cut-off dates, retrogression of already established dates, or some categories becoming “unavailable”.



Bhasu said:
The June 2005 Bulletin does not show any movement in EB3 category.

http://travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/bulletin/bulletin_2507.html

No movement is seen in PD. Thats strange and contradictory per the discussions going on the board.
Confusion !!!!!
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Technically, if they are able to use all the AC21 numbers in Fy 2005 and if the PD does not move from where it is right now, its gonna be really hard for Fy 2006. Note there would be only the yearly limit available, unless the new bill increases it by two-fold.
Lets hope for the better.
I see myself getting approved only in November may be. That is 1 year from where four of my friends got approved with the same priority date. Aaarrrgh.
 
Outrageous!

This is outrageous to the extreme!

First three quarters they said they cannot use more than 27% of the annual limit. Now they come along and say this. So, what happenned to the remaining 19% or even 15% allowing some overshoot could occur? If they cant do math and want to run this department atleast they should get some abacus from walmart and get folks trained in Japan/China. Or better outsource to....

Also, no word on mischievously worded amendment to AC21 taking away the unused from EB to Sch A & then capping it!

Outraged!




nishokie said:
well it seems like its only gonna get worse for the rest of 2005.

VISA AVAILABILITY DURING THE REMAINDER OF FY-2005

Employment-based: During the past month there has been a significant increase in the amount of numbers being used by Citizenship and Immigration Service (CIS) offices for adjustment of status applicants. This level of demand has significantly depleted the supply of Employment-based numbers available under the annual limit. Recent discussions with CIS have made it clear that their backlog reduction efforts will sustain or increase the current level of demand. Therefore, continued visa availability in the Employment-based categories cannot be guaranteed during the final quarter of FY-2005. If demand continues at the current rate, it will be necessary to oversubscribe many or all of the Employment categories on a Worldwide basis. Such oversubscription could result in the establishment of cut-off dates, retrogression of already established dates, or some categories becoming “unavailable”.
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hey, you still can go and get your labor substituted with early dates and get a GC. I know somebody who cut a deal with a company, got an approved labor, applied on Nov 04 and got greencard a month back. 5 months for a GC. Huh.
 
now Employed based immigrant visa is also going to become family based visa... if it goes by 7% anual limit it will not move forward
 
What iam worried about are the approval of the backlogged LCs. Once this starts trickling down, there is no way PDs will ever move faster or being current unless something done through legislation. There are folks i know what are waiting from Sep 02 to get their labor approved.

Hanuman55 said:
This is outrageous to the extreme!

First three quarters they said they cannot use more than 27% of the annual limit. Now they come along and say this. So, what happenned to the remaining 19% or even 15% allowing some overshoot could occur? If they cant do math and want to run this department atleast they should get some abacus from walmart and get folks trained in Japan/China. Or better outsource to....

Also, no word on mischievously worded amendment to AC21 taking away the unused from EB to Sch A & then capping it!

Outraged!
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also what happened to the USCIS plan to process immigration paperwork within 6 months by 2006.

now i am thinking they didn't mean 6 months, probably meant 6 years.



nyte_crawler said:
What iam worried about are the approval of the backlogged LCs. Once this starts trickling down, there is no way PDs will ever move faster or being current unless something done through legislation. There are folks i know what are waiting from Sep 02 to get their labor approved.
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This SUCKS! If you read Murthy, less than a month ago, DOS said that there were visas left in EB3 skilled categories and avoid further backlogs. Now the whole scenerio changes. I only need three more months for CP, but only GOD would know when I get my turn. I felt MISERABLE and VERY SAD today. Do these DOS guys ever think what an emotional ride we go through to get our GC?
 
Bapunagar,
I only need 3 months to go ... My case is sitting in consulate for the last 6 months.It is very miserable.Things keep on changing every day...
 
nishokie said:
also what happened to the USCIS plan to process immigration paperwork within 6 months by 2006.

now i am thinking they didn't mean 6 months, probably meant 6 years.
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Is it not weird that USCIS complied with that paper and we are here with retrogression? They speeded up the approval process visa numbers became hot.
 
There are HUGE CONFLICTS on the statements that DOS made last month regarding visa numbers. I think all of them doesn't know how to compute and do a simple arithmetic... I agree with most of you...how can they say that visa numbers are exhausted when it only permits them to use only 27% according to law of 140,000EB numbers...JUNE IS STILL PART OF THE THIRD QUARTER...But how can they say that visa numbers will continue to retrogress if there ARE MORE VISAS THAT WOULD BE AVAILABLE ON THE LAST QUARTER??? Visas that would be available on the last quarter are more than 130,000 almost the amount of the worldwide limit...There are not even mentioning the numbers from AC21...I THINK THAT WE SHOULD DEMAND AN EXPLANATION OR LET US SEE THE STATISTICS FROM USCIS AND THE DOS...

dale
 
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