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Generally, your priority date is either the filing date of their FB or EB immigrant petition or the filing date of their PERM application if such application is required. In this post, FB AOS applications refer to the family-based applications of those other than the spouses or children of US citizens.

The date your petition was filed is called your priority date. Priority dates are posted monthly on the Visa Bulletin, which provides up-to-date priority dates for cases NVC is processing.

A receipt date is when you receive the I-130 approval notice. And a priority date is when your legal rights over your application begin.

To distribute the visas among all preference categories, DOS allocates the visas ing to a prospective immigrant's preference category, country of chargeability, and priority date. DOS uses the priority date to determine an immigrant's place in the visa queue.

In the employment-based categories, you are issued a priority date based on when your employer files a PERM application with the Department of Labor, or if no PERM application is required, by the date that an I-140 visa petition is filed on your behalf.

How long does it take to get an appointment? Although NVC strives to schedule appointments within three months of NVC's acceptance of all requested documentation, this timeframe is subject to the operating status and capacity of the consular section.

Your priority date is generally the date when your relative or employer properly filed the immigrant visa petition on your behalf with USCIS.

Your priority date is generally the date when your relative or employer properly filed the immigrant visa petition on your behalf with USCIS.