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Important Terms in the Visa Bulletin. Priority date: This is the date that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) received your I-130 petition. Think of this date as your place in the green card line. You can find your priority date on the I-797 form mailed by USCIS approving your I-130 petition.

Which visa bulletin chart do I use? Once you know your priority date and your preference category, proceed to the U.S. State Department's website to find the monthly visa bulletin. Select the "Current Visa Bulletin." Forward to "Family-Sponsored Preferences" to see a table similar to the sample below.

Effective July 15, 2023, we are moving to a new system for U.S. visa services. To enable us to efficiently move your appointment and payment information to the new system, please take the following steps at your earliest convenience: Ensure that all the data entered in your profile is complete and correct.

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 visa number used by USCIS and the Department of State has been steady in FY 2023. As we are coming to the end of the year in September 2023, most Employment-Based (EB) preference category limits and overall, EB visas available are projected to be reached this month.

DIVERSITY IMMIGRANT (DV) CATEGORY FOR THE MONTH OF JULY This will result in reduction of the DV-2023 annual limit to approximately 54,850. DV visas are divided among six geographic regions. No one country can receive more than seven percent of the available diversity visas in any one year.

The application date for an oversubscribed category is the priority date of the first applicant who cannot submit documentation to the National Visa Center for an immigrant visa. If a category is designated current, all applicants in the relevant category may file, regardless of priority date.

You can find your priority date on the I-797 form mailed by USCIS approving your I-130 petition. Current: In the context of the visa bulletin, current means no backlog and no wait time for a green card. A particular priority date becomes current once it reaches the front of the line and a green card is available.

Typically occurring near the end of the fiscal year, visa retrogression can end up meaning that visa applicant's priority dates shift around the set cut-off date, meeting it one month and then potentially not meeting it the following month due to the surge in demand.

You can find your priority date on the I-797 form mailed by USCIS approving your I-130 petition. Current: In the context of the visa bulletin, current means no backlog and no wait time for a green card. A particular priority date becomes current once it reaches the front of the line and a green card is available.