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Check your inbox toward the end of every month for the latest Visa Bulletin update from Boundless. Every month, USCIS announces whether applicants already living in the United States should file their ?adjustment of status? applications based on the ?Final Action Dates? or the ?Dates for Filing.?

Check your inbox toward the end of every month for the latest Visa Bulletin update from Boundless. Every month, USCIS announces whether applicants already living in the United States should file their ?adjustment of status? applications based on the ?Final Action Dates? or the ?Dates for Filing.?

For Chinese applicants, the October 2023 Visa Bulletin is likely to bring some good news. There is a strong possibility that the priority dates for this group will move forward by a few months. This positive shift is a result of the ongoing efforts to balance the demand and supply of immigrant visas.

In the first few months of 2023, we have continued to see improvements in processing times for many petitions and applications. For example, the current processing time for the I-129 petition is approximately 2 months.

The date that determines whether a preference immigrant visa applicant can be scheduled for an immigrant visa interview in any given month. The cut-off date is the priority date of the first applicant who could not get a visa interview for a given month.

In the Visa Bulletin, the ?Dates for Filing? or ?Dates for Filing Application? refer to the earliest dates when people who apply for Green Cards are finally allowed to apply for their immigrant visa or green card.

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.

The government estimates that 165,000 green cards will be available to persons in the employment categories in Fiscal Year 2024, down from 197,000 in FY 2023, but 25,000 higher than the 140,000 mandated by law as the result of 25,000 unused family-based green cards in Fiscal Year 2023.

On the other hand, in the second quarter of 2023, 7,889 applications were received, and, among the new and pending ones, 9,119 were approved and 1,710 were denied. On the other hand, 15,825 applications were pending. In this quarter, the approval rate was 84.1%.

The visa bulletin is issued every month by the Department of State. It shows which green card applications can move forward, based on when the I-130 petition that starts the green card process was originally filed.