what is priority date?

The date your application or petition (or other request) was "officially" received by the USCIS. In theory, it is used to establish the order in which these are processed.
 
Priority date is the date your labor certification reaches the STATE DOL. Not the USCIS. You will find it on your approved I-140.
 
Helllllllo! We're in the citizenship discussion forum here, not the permanent residency one! In this case, the priority date IS when the pertinent USCIS service center receives the N-400. It will be on the N-400 receipt notice, which usually comes 7-10 days after the PD.

And -- for what it's worth -- some of us didn't have to go through LC during the permanent residency process so our priority date WAS when the I-140 was received by the USCIS (for me, INS at that time). I was in the EB-1 preference category for my I-140.

grunggy said:
Priority date is the date your labor certification reaches the STATE DOL. Not the USCIS. You will find it on your approved I-140.
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CanTex said:
Helllllllo! Well excuse me. We're in the citizenship discussion forum here, not the permanent residency one! In this case, the priority date IS when the pertinent USCIS service center receives the N-400. It will be on the N-400 receipt notice, which usually comes 7-10 days after the PD.

And -- for what it's worth -- some of us didn't have to go through LC during the permanent residency process so our priority date WAS when the I-140 was received by the USCIS (for me, INS at that time). I was in the EB-1 preference category for my I-140.
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Yes this I know..but for most people they do need the LC. Be very glad you didn't.
 
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