The U.S. Department of State has released the October 2012 Visa Bulletin. This is the first Visa Bulletin for the 2013 fiscal year (FY2013). Major headlines in this month’s bulletin are the availability in several categories, including EB-2 India and China, as well as a significant retrogression in the EB-2 India category to September 2004.
Summary of the October 2012 Visa Bulletin – Employment-Based (EB)
Summary of the October 2012 Visa Bulletin – Family-Based (FB)
Recently, there has been much speculation and anticipation of the October 2012 Visa Bulletin, the first of Fiscal Year 2013 – specifically in regard to the EB-2 India and China. Indications were that the EB-2 India cutoff date would be set to somewhere in 2007. It seems that in the October 2012 Visa Bulletin, The Department of State decided to retrogress significantly EB-2 India to September 1, 2004 in an effort to slow the number of new I-485 filings and to allow The United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) to work on filed and pending I-485 applications in this category.
Slow movement in the category is expected over the next few months.
Contact The Law Offices of Dayna Kelly if you’d like to speak with an attorney about your immigration matters. We will continue to update our readers on Department of State updates, including the release of the November 2012 Visa Bulletin.
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