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08 Jun 2012

Updated I-485 Inventory: May 2012

The pending I-485 inventory charts posted by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) were recently updated. These charts detail the number of pending employment-based (EB) adjustment-of-status (I-485) cases by EB preference category, country of chargeability, and month and year of the priority date. This...

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18 May 2012

June 2012 Visa Bulletin: EB1 and EB2 Predictions for Cutoff Dates

The U.S. Department of State (DOS) Visa Bulletin for June 2012 contains the expected "U" - indicating unavailable - in the EB2 category for India and China. The depletion of the EB2 visa numbers for India and China was confirmed in April 2012. The June...

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11 May 2012

EB2 “Upgrades” – Priority Date Retention and Online Degrees

With the ongoing backlog in the employment-based, third preference (EB3) category, many people look forward to using the strategy commonly referred to as an EB3-to-EB2 "upgrade." The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently confirmed a long-term favorable policy, which facilitates this strategy. It was...

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27 Apr 2012

DOS Confirms EB2 India and China Limit Reached

The U.S. Department of State (DOS) has confirmed that the limit on immigrant visa numbers for fiscal year 2012 (FY12) has been reached. This information was communicated to USCIS on April 11, 2012, and was expected, based on the Murthy Law Firm's earlier communication with...

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20 Apr 2012

EB2 India and China Retrogression May Result in AC21 AOS Portability Benefits

Developments in the employment-based, second preference (EB2) category for India and China in late 2011 / early 2012 generated both excitement and disappointment for many EB2 candidates. The rapid forward movement of cutoff dates in the visa bulletin for EB2-eligible candidates from India and China...

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13 Apr 2012

May 2012 Visa Bulletin: EB2 India and China Retrogression

The U.S. Department of State (DOS) has released the May 2012 Visa Bulletin. As expected, based upon an earlier DOS announcement, the May Visa Bulletin has a retrogressed cutoff date of August 15, 2007. This was discussed in DOS Issues New EB2 Cutoff Projection (23.Mar.2012)....

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06 Apr 2012

EB2 Visa Numbers Depleted for India and China

MurthyDotCom and MurthyBulletin readers were alerted on March 29, 2012 in our news item DOS Confirms Lack of Enough EB2 India / China Visa Numbers, that the U.S. Department of State (DOS) had internally retrogressed the EB2 India and China cutoff dates. The retrogression will...

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29 Mar 2012

DOS Confirms Lack of Enough EB2 India / China Visa Numbers

The Department of State (DOS) provided the Murthy Law Firm with confirmation today that, effective March 23, 2012, the EB2 cutoff date has been retrogressed internally to August 15, 2007. This means that the USCIS will not be able to approve further EB2 I-485 cases...

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23 Mar 2012

DOS Issues New EB2 Cutoff Projection

The Department of State (DOS) has advised that the EB2 India and China category will retrogress to August 15, 2007 in the May 2012 Visa Bulletin. Charles Oppenheim, Chief, Visa Control and Reporting, has provided this information to AILA.The EB2 cutoff set in the April...

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23 Mar 2012

April 2012 Visa Bulletin: EB2 India and China Unchanged

The April 2012 U.S. Department of State (DOS) Visa Bulletin is available and reflects an unchanged cutoff date in the employment-based, second preference (EB2) category for India and China. This is far different from the significant forward movement that category enjoyed from the October 2011...

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