Law Office of Vivian Wang Blog

The U.S. Department of State (DOS) released the May 2015 Visa Bulletin. EB2 China jumps forward by more than a year, to June 1, 2012. EB2 India moves ahead by more than seven months, to April 15, 2008. The employment-based, third preference (EB3) category also advances for those born in China, with a new cutoff date of May 1, 2011. EB3 India only moves ahead by a week, to January 15, 2004. Meanwhile, EB3 Philippines retrogresses severely, to July 1, 2007.

On April 7, 2015, USCIS announced that the H1B cap for the 2016 fiscal year has been reached. In addition, the U.S advanced degree exemption has also been met.

We are happy to report that all our firm's H1B quota cases have been delivered to California or Vermont Service Center today. This year, 89% of our cases are U.S. Masters or higher.

USCIS has posted two new flyers about expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and about Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA). Both fliers are available at uscis.gov/immigrationaction and uscis.gov/accionmigratoria. They explain:

According to the newly released February visa bulletin, EB2 China moves ahead six weeks, to March 15, 2010. Meanwhile, EB2 India moves forward by more than six months, to September 1, 2005. The employment-based, third preference (EB3) category also sees movement, with EB3 China advancing by six months, to September 1, 2011. EB3 India only moves ahead by one week, to December 22, 2003, but EB3 for all remaining countries of chargeability jumps ahead by seven months, to January 1, 2014. EB1 remains current for all countries.