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Topic: Everybody is now CURRENT -- VISA BULLETIN FOR JULY 2007
E. EMPLOYMENT-BASED VISA AVAILABILITY DURING THE COMING MONTHS
All Employment Preference categories except for Third “Other Workers” have been made “Current” for July. This has been done in an effort to generate increased demand by Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) for adjustment of status cases, and to maximize number use under the annual numerical limit. However, all readers should be alert to the possibility that not all Employment preferences will remain Current for the remainder of the fiscal year. Should the rate of demand for numbers be very heavy in the coming months, it could become necessary to retrogress some cut-off dates for September, most likely for China-mainland born and India, but also possibly for Mexico and Philippines. Severe cut-off date retrogressions are likely to occur early in FY-2008.
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TSC/NSC IO cannot handle current cases on hand and they still make the all EBs current to accept thousands of cases. It seems they want to collect more money from fees during the following months. Interesting.
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I disagree. If they wanted to collect more money they would've waited until the end of July when the new fees start. They are doing this because they haven't gotten the total number of applications to fill this year's cap. This is basically because of the Labor Department backlog.
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i think they have lot of pressure from industries to have more workers.so they might have decided why not give this people the chance to fill up that vaccume.so they will give all the applicants immeadiate work authorization card so they can work legally.
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from the 2007 ombudsman report,
If the priority date became current today , due to delayed USCIS processing and thus underutilization of visa numbers, some have predicted that within a few months as many as 500,000 to 750,000 individuals now residing in the United States under a temporary worker visa could apply for a green card. Additionally, DOL’s recent backlog elimination efforts, scheduled to be completed by September 30, 2007, are predicted to add 70,000 or more approved labor certifications yielding as many as 170,000 additional green card applications. As USCIS begins to complete these applications and request visa numbers from DOS, the 140,000 statutorily authorized visa numbers will be used. DOS then will be required to retrogress priority dates. Consequently, most applicants in this scenario will find themselves trapped where as they anticipated timely receipt of a green card, their wait exceeds seven or more years. In addition, all future employment-based green card applicants effectively would be barred from applying for many years.
-- That's mean tons of people will file I-485 + EAD + AP and then they can work legally. For USCIS, it means millions income, isn't it?
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From MurthyDotCom.
"This substantial forward movement of EB immigrant visa numbers is unexpected. Many people whose priority dates have not been current for years will now be able to file their I-485 Adjustment of Status (AOS) cases, and many pending I-485/AOS cases and consular processing (CP) cases are potentially eligible for approval while the priority dates remain current. "
Hey, let's prepare our documents and applications for July 1st, instead of making elaborated analysis of what is going to happen in the next 5 years (July and August everybody is current, in Sept-Back to 2000. I don't care). I've been waiting for this bulletin to happen long time ago, I won't waste time, let's rock and roll.
Yahoo! Yupi! Excellent! Gracias a Dios!!!
J.F.
Phoenix, AZ
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This might be a dumb question but, if everyone is "current" now, does that mean we don't have to wait for our priority dates? How limited are the numbers available??? I'm stressing out b/c I just found out about July's bulletin yesterday ad I haven't been able to reach my attorney. I need to know so i can breathe!!!
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Yes, we don't have to wait for priority dates to become current. What that means is you can file I-485 now, but if the priority date retrogresses beyond your priority date, then your I-485 cannot be approved until that date moves past your priority date. You need to hope that the priority date they're processing is past your priority date at the time they're going to approve your I-485.
But it's still better than not being able to file I-485. At least you will go through the fingerprinting and you will get your EAD, which isn't affected by priority date retrogression.
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Hi guy's one bad news,
there is a news from the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) that they have reliable information that the July Visa Bulletin will be revised on Monday, July 2nd, or Tuesday, July 3rd. This Visa Bulletin is expected to retrogress many of the categories that were announced as being "Current" for July. It is expected that at least some of the categories will become completely "unavailable." The reason for this is that the USCIS apparently engaged in extraordinary efforts to approve cases in June, once there was some forward movement of the Visa Bulletin. They did this to try to avoid the tide of cases expected in July. Each green card approval uses one visa number. If the numbers are all used for the year, then the DOS will issue a revised Visa Bulletin reflecting "unavailable" in the particular category or categories.
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