USCIS Visa Bulletin May 2024 - Final Action Dates and Important Details! - rgkarmch.org - Find Preliminary Exam Notes (2024)

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What does final action date mean in a Visa Bulletin? ›

The 'Final Action Date' is critical in determining when an immigrant visa number is available for applicants. If your priority date is before your category's listed Final Action Date, you are eligible for visa issuance that month. This data is vital to moving forward in the visa or green card process.

The US Department of State has released its May 2024 Visa Bulletin outlining per-country priority date cutoffs that regulate immigrant visa availability and the flow of adjustment of status application and consular immigrant visa application filings and approvals.

The EB-1C visa timeline varies depending on your country, the number of applicants for your visa (EB-1), and the number of forms at the service center. EB-1C multinational manager processing time usually takes around 6 months and getting your visa number can take anywhere between 6 months to 5 years.

How long does it take to get an appointment? Although NVC strives to schedule appointments within three months of NVC's acceptance of all requested documentation, this timeframe is subject to the operating status and capacity of the consular section.

USCIS wait times are faster in 2024

Faster Approvals: Most of the most common applications are now being processed at pre-pandemic levels, often faster. Quickest Turnarounds: The wait time I-129F has decreased significantly in the first half of 2024, it's now 3 months for applications filed today.

You have one year after your Priority Date becomes current in the "Application Final Action Dates" chart to pursue your visa or green card. If you do not, the government assumes you have abandoned it, and will give your visa number to the next person in line.

The EB-1B (Outstanding Researcher or Professor) sub-category has the highest success rate of EB-1 Form I-140 Petitions being approved (86.6% in FY-2022); followed by the EB-1C (Multinational Executive or Manager) sub-category with a 74.7% approval rate; and then the EB-1A (Extraordinary Ability) sub-category with a ...

If the beneficiary is not already working for the US company that is filing the immigrant petition on their behalf, then they must have worked for the foreign company for 1 year within the 3 years preceding the date the EB1C petition is filed.

The total number of employment-based immigrant visas across all categories is capped at 140,000 per year. Within this limit, the EB-1 category, which includes EB1A, EB1B, and EB1C, is allocated 28.6% of the total, amounting to approximately 40,040 visas annually.

Most Form I-130 petitions for immediate relatives are approved within a 10 to 14 month time frame, but they can take longer in some cases. If you are in the United States and also filed an application to adjust status, USCIS will begin reviewing Form I-485 at this point.

Which priority date is current at NVC? ›

You can find your priority date on the I-797 form mailed by USCIS approving your I-130 petition. Current: In the context of the visa bulletin, “current” means no backlog and no wait time for a green card. A particular priority date becomes “current” once it reaches the front of the line and a green card is available.

If everything says “Paid,” “Complete,” “In Process,” or “Submitted,” that means NVC is reviewing your case.

The visa expiration date is shown on the visa along with the visa issuance date. The time between visa issuance and expiration date is called your visa validity. The visa validity is the length of time you are permitted to travel to a port-of-entry in the United States.

For visa /status such as H-1B and L, the approval date is usually earlier than the effective date. For such cases, the last action by USCIS that determines a person's status is the effective date of the approved case.

If this is your status, then the final processing of your visa is being completed and you are going to receive your visa. It takes about 10 business days to receive the visa after an "issued" status.

The PED listed on your visa is your Petition End Date, or the date on which the status under which you entered the United States will expire.