Terrible News for EB3 : Backlog Reduction may Impact Priority Dates
Backlog Reduction may Impact Employment Priority Dates
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One of the side effects of the faster processing efforts is that faster processing of green card cases creates an increased demand for immigrant visa numbers. Since there are a limited number of immigrant visas issued in each category each year, the increased demand causes backlogs in various categories. This has already resulted in the regression, or going backwards, of certain family-based priority dates. While the priority dates in employment-based cases remain current for all categories, increased demand could change this situation in the future. For more information on priority dates and their importance in the immigration process, see our MurthyDotCom article, Priority Dates: How do they Work? Basically, in order to complete the green card process either through consular processing or adjustment of status, there must be an immigrant visa number available. These visa numbers are allocated by DOS pursuant to annual legal limits. The tracking as to which cases have a visa number available to them, based upon the date the case was filed, is set out in a monthly DOS publication known as the Visa Bulletin, which we make available on MurthyDotCom.
Backlog Reduction may Impact Employment Priority Dates
http://www.murthy.com/news/n_bacred.html
One of the side effects of the faster processing efforts is that faster processing of green card cases creates an increased demand for immigrant visa numbers. Since there are a limited number of immigrant visas issued in each category each year, the increased demand causes backlogs in various categories. This has already resulted in the regression, or going backwards, of certain family-based priority dates. While the priority dates in employment-based cases remain current for all categories, increased demand could change this situation in the future. For more information on priority dates and their importance in the immigration process, see our MurthyDotCom article, Priority Dates: How do they Work? Basically, in order to complete the green card process either through consular processing or adjustment of status, there must be an immigrant visa number available. These visa numbers are allocated by DOS pursuant to annual legal limits. The tracking as to which cases have a visa number available to them, based upon the date the case was filed, is set out in a monthly DOS publication known as the Visa Bulletin, which we make available on MurthyDotCom.