United States: December 2022 Visa Bulletin – EB-2 Retrogression for Most Countries and EB-3 Advancement for India and China; EB-1 India and China Likely to Retrogress in Coming Months
2022/11/30 10:16am
An EB-2 Final Action cutoff date of November 1, 2022, and Dates a Filing cutoff date of December 1, 2022, will take effect next month for all countries except for China and India.
The EB-2 India Final Action category will retrogress by more than six months to October 8, 2011. The EB-2 India Dates for Filing cutoff will remain on May 1, 2012.
The EB-3 India Professional/Skilled Worker Final Action category will advance by more than two months to June 15, 2012, and the Dates for Filing cutoff will advance by one month to August 1, 2012.
The EB-3 China Professional/Skilled Worker category will advance by six weeks, to August 1, 2018, for Final Action, and to September 1, 2018, for Dates for Filing.
EB-1 India and China will likely retrogress in the coming months.
The FY 2023 employment-based immigrant visa limit will be 197,000, as compared with 281,507 in FY 2022.