Wednesday, August 9, 2023

SEPTEMBER 2023 VISA BULLETIN

The Department of State has just issued the September 2023 Visa Bulletin.  This is the final Visa Bulletin of Fiscal Year 2023. This blog post analyzes this month's Visa Bulletin.

Visa Bulletin

Table A: Final Action Dates -- Applications with these dates may be approved for their Green Card (Permanent Residency card) or Immigrant Visa appointment.

EB

Worldwide

CHINA

INDIA

PHILIPPINES

1st

01AUG23

01FEB22

01JAN12

01AUG23

2nd

01JUL22

08JUL19

01JAN11

01JUL22

3rd

01MAY20

01SEP19

01JAN09

01MAY20

Other workers

01MAY20

01SEP15

01JAN09

01MAY20

Table B: Dates of Filing

The USCIS is expected to use the Table B Dates of Filing chart for I-485 employment-based filings. See: USCIS Visa Bulletin Dates

MU Law Analysis

As is often the case toward the end of the fiscal year, there was not much movement as the USCIS and DOS seek to use the remaining visas in the fiscal year.

EB-3 Other Workers, which is the category for occupations for most occupations, remains retrogressed to 01May2020.  This date, along with all categories, will not advance until October 1, 2023, with the start of the new fiscal year.  Our sense is that when the October 2023 visa bulletin is published, it will show an EB-3 (non-India and non-China) with a mid-2022 priority date.  However, because the Department of State is not forthcoming with their demand and usage data, please assume large error bars around our projection.

EB-2 advanced for all countries, except India and China, which may be good news for EB-2 in the next fiscal year.

Sometime during September, the DOS may announce that all immigrant visas have been used for FY 2023.  Rest assured that this is expected and will not have any bearing on the FY 2024 Visa Bulletin dates.

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