Private: May 2013 Visa Bulletin Rocks (for Some)
The May 2013 Visa Bulletin contains great news for a select group of persons who have been waiting in line for years to obtain green cards through their jobs. The worldwide EB-3 category jumps forward 5 months to December 1, 2007. What’s more is that EB-3 workers born in the PRC are no longer hampered by the 7% per-country quota. Unfortunately, EB-3 workers born in India are not so fortunate. Their category advances only 2 weeks. And the EB-3 category for Filipinos moves ahead only 1 week.
The worldwide EB-2 category remains current (no backlog), but while EB-2 PRC advances 6 weeks, EB-2 India moves not at all.
Hopefully, Congress will eliminate all per-country quotas for EB workers this year. After all, talent is talent!
The worldwide family-based preference categories move forward between 2 and 10 weeks except for the F4 sibling category which remains stuck in time at May 1, 2001. Family categories for the Philippines advance from 3 to 14 weeks while those for Mexico move ahead between 1 and 9 weeks.
The charts below tell the story in more detail.
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FAMILY CATEGORIES
| Categories | Worldwide | China (PRC) | Mexico | Philippines |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 4-1-06 | 4-1-06 | 8-8-93 | 6-1-99 |
| 2A | 3-1-11 | 3-1-11 | 2-1-11 | 3-1-11 |
| 2B | 5-15-05 | 5-15-05 | 5-1-93 | 9-8-02 |
| 3rd | 8-8-02 | 8-8-02 | 4-1-93 | 10-22-92 |
| 4th | 5-1-01 | 5-1-01 | 9-8-96 | 10-1-89 |
EMPLOYMENT CATEGORIES
| Categories | Worldwide | China (PRC) | India | Mexico | Philippines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Current | Current | Current | Current | Current |
| 2nd | Current | 5-15-08 | 9-1-04 | Current | Current |
| 3rd | 12-1-07 | 12-1-07 | 12-22-02 | 12-1-07 | 9-15-06 |
| Unskilled | 12-1-07 | 9-1-03 | 12-22-02 | 12-1-07 | 9-15-06 |
| 4th | Current | Current | Current | Current | Current |
| Religious | Current | Current | Current | Current | Current |
| 5th | Current | Current | Current | Current | Current |
See the entire visa bulletin including information about the movement of the green card lottery numbers.
