Hello, everybody. In this video, we're going to cover, as always, the May 2021 visa bulletin. We
see some interesting advances in employment-based categories. But this time, we see, also, advances
in the family-based categories as well, predict the family-based limit for fiscal year 2022
will remain at 226,000 while the employment-based limit for fiscal year 2022 will likely increase
to 275,000. In this video, we'll go over some additional predictions,
as well as go through the two bulletins, employment and family, in more detail. So,
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just like you. So, in this video, we're going to talk about the May 2021 visa bulletin. We do this
every single month. We go through the bulletin. And we also try to give you some predictions based
on the visa number movements as well as other information we are able to collect for you.
So, what's interesting about this May 2021 visa bulletin, we definitely see some advancements in
the final action dates, specifically for India and China in the employment based category. We also
believe that EB2 India and China will continue to advance significantly on the employment side
for the rest of the year. The EB1 category and employment side is current for all countries,
and will remain current throughout the end of the year. As we predicted in a previous video
last month, final action cutoff date for China moved forward by three months to December 1,
2016. This is a pretty significant investment in one month. Among other interesting changes
in this month's bulletin is that India EB3 category moved by three months forward
to August 1, 2010. In China, EB3 moved forward by two months to May 15, 2018. Looking ahead to the
end of the year, I don't think that EB5 China will advance any further until the end of the year,
maybe some movements on the EB5 of Vietnam at this point. Now, remember, I'm going to go
through the chart in more detail in a few minutes. So, make sure you stick to the end of this video.
Let's jump into the family summary. Before I actually look in the charts in the family-based
final action dates, the FT2 category remains current for all categories. And we see
advancements in other family categories for all other countries as well. As I mentioned before,
we predicted the family-based limit for fiscal year 2022 will remain at 226,000
while the employment-based limit will be increased to 275,000 for fiscal year 2022.
Let's dive into the actual family-based categories and look at the chart. As you know, family-based
numbers have experience severely low movement in the past several months. And this is because of
the global pandemic and the fact that consulates, embassies continue to remain closed. And there are
very few immigrant visa interviews taking place at the moment. Also, as you know that any unused
family-based numbers are being added automatically to the employment-based categories. And therefore,
we see a faster movement on the employment-based categories in the past several months as well.
Before we look at the family chart, just so you know that if you're applying for Adjustment
of Status, and you're looking at the USCIS visa bulletin, for all other purposes, USCIS announced
that they're going to use the dates of filing charge for all family-based categories except
for the F2A category. That category is going to use the final action dates chart and as you know,
this chart still remains current. Let's look at the family-based category. And we'll look
at the final action charts for the purposes of this video. So, right now we're looking at the
final action dates for family based immigrant visas for May 2021. You can see a progression
by a week or more in most categories. The most significant advancement was F4, Philippines, which
moved forward 38 days. Let's look at F1, rest of the world, it's currently in October 22 ‘14.
Yeah, advanced by 14 days. F1 for Mainland China is out October 22 ‘14, advanced by 14 days. The
same for India 14 days, Mexico is 04-04-98. We have 59 days advancement, and the Philippines,
02-01-12, advanced by 11 days. F2A is current for all categories.
F2B, rest of the world, is August 15 ‘15, one week movement. China, 08-15-15, one a week movement.
India, 8-15-15, one week moving from last month. Mexico, 08-15-99, 25 days movement
forward. And the Philippines, 09-15-11, 14 days movement forward since last month.
F3 category, rest of the world, August 22 ‘08, 14 days movement. China, 08-22-08, 14 days movement.
India, 08-22-08, 14 days moving forward. Mexico, 10-15-96, 14 days movement forward,
and the Philippines, 05-01-02, advanced by a month. And finally, F4 category siblings,
rest of the world is at 11-08-06, one week only movement. China 11-08-06, 1 week movement.
India is on 04-15-05, a one week movement forward and Mexico is 08-08-98, 18 days
forward. And still a very slow movement in Mexico and the Philippines 05-01-02, 31 days moving
forward. So, as you can see, we definitely see a movement forward in the family-based categories,
but it's still quite slow. And again, the reason behind it is embassies and consulates are not
pushing visas forward as much as they should. And so, we see a slower movement on the family side.
As a result, employment-based categories are moving a little bit faster. But the prediction is
that as embassies and consulates are going to be reopening, we're going to see a better, and a much
more forward movement in most of these categories. And who knows what's going to happen after the
summer as well. Expecting it to be pretty positive as well. The good news for employment-based chart
is EB1 category remains current for all countries. Now, let's take a look at the chart and see some
of the most significant movements in May 2021. EB1 is current for all countries. EB2 is current
for the rest of the world. Mainly in China, we're looking at 12-01-16, a movement of three
months. That's pretty good. India, 08-01-10, three months forward movement. Mexico is current. EB2
Philippines is currently. EB2 Vietnam is curren. EB2 in Central America is also current, on EB2.
Let's move to EB3. EB3 is current for the rest of the world. China moved by two months to 05-15-18.
India moved by five months t02-01 -1. That's a huge movement. The rest of the world is
current. EB3 is current for the rest of the world. China is 08-01-09, 2 months movement
forward. India, 02-01-11, five months forward, huge movement, and we have the rest of the world
is current on EB3. EB4 is current for the rest of the world. Current for China, current for India,
Mexico is 03-15-19, 42 days movement forward. And then, the rest of the world is current.
Central America is it's 09-01-18, one month movement. EB5 is current for the rest of the
world. China is at 08-15-15, it will stay there pretty much for the rest of the year.
India's current, Mexico's current, Philippines is current, and Vietnam is at 02-18-18,
three months movement. Pretty, pretty good. So, as you can see, we definitely have some good news in
this visa bulletin. The steady part anticipates a rapid, aggressive movement forward in many of
the categories, including the family in the next few months. I’d be excited to report that once
we know more and once we have actual numbers. But overall, these are good news. As you know,
embassies are starting to reopen slowly, in different phases, different consulates,
all these efforts are definitely going to help push more numbers into the system. And hopefully,
we're going to see more movement in categories, They were standing still, and now, they're
going to start moving forward. Even if it's only a few weeks or a few months, it's still better than
just sitting and waiting. So, of course, I'll keep you posted once we have more information.
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