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The 'Final Action Date' signifies when an immigrant visa number will be available for a foreign national with a current priority date that month. The visa or green card cannot be issued unless the applicant's priority date is earlier than the Final Action Date listed on the visa bulletin.

This bulletin summarizes the availability of immigrant numbers during August for: ?Final Action Dates? and ?Dates for Filing Applications,? indicating when immigrant visa applicants should be notified to assemble and submit required documentation to the National Visa Center.

The EB3 Visa takes a relatively long time to process. It can take between 1 and 3 years, depending on your country of origin. For some countries with a low annual visa cap, it can take up to 6 years. The processing time for PERM labor certification is about 6 to 9 months, as mentioned earlier.

The U.S. Department of State anticipates that by July 1, 2023, all prorated employment-based third preference (EB-3) visa numbers available for Indian applicants in fiscal year (FY) 2023 will be exhausted; however, on October 1, 2023, the EB-3 final action date for India is expected to advance.

A. DOS currently estimates that the FY 2023 employment-based annual limit will be approximately 197,000, due to approximately 57,000 unused family-sponsored visa numbers from FY 2022 being added to the employment-based limit for FY 2023.

The Department estimates that by July 1, 2023, all of the pro-rated EB-3 visa numbers available to applicants chargeable to India in FY2023 will be used. Further, because there is sufficient worldwide EB-3 demand, the Department cannot allocate additional otherwise unused EB-3 visas to India under INA 202(a)(5).

In the May 2023 Visa Bulletin, the EB-3 final action dates for Rest of World, Mexico, and the Philippines were established to keep number use within the FY 2023 annual limit. This was in part due to higher than expected demand from applicants with priority dates earlier than the established final action dates.

We believe that we will finally see some forward movement in the India EB2 category starting June 2023, when the USCIS has a better understanding of the current backlog versus the number of visas they have remaining for the rest of the fiscal year.