US Visa Bulletin for March has good news for Indians under EB-2, EB-3-category-investing abroad news

The US Visa Bulletin for March has been released so that foreign nationals can start applying for immigrant visas. Bulletin provides information on immigrant numbers for March, including ‘Final Date of Action’ and ‘Dates for Filing Application’, which indicates when applicants should submit the necessary documentation.

US Visa Bulletin for March has good news for Indian visa seekers under the categories EB-2 and EB-3.

The US Bulletin in March shows that the final dates of action for India under the EB-2 and EB-3 categories will move on by six weeks. For EB-2 India, final action dates have been moved from 15oct12 to 01dec12. For EB-3 India, final action dates have also been moved by six weeks from 15DEC12 to 01FEB13.

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An employment-based visa on other preference or EB-2 visa is awarded to persons with advanced degrees or extraordinary professional abilities. An EB-2 visa under the advanced degree category requires an advanced degree or foreign comparable degree as well as 5 years of relevant work experience.

The EB-2 visa under the Exceptional Ability category requires extraordinary skills in science, art or business, unique expertise and fulfillment of labor certification requirements. Foreign workers who apply for an EB-2 visa may request a waiver of a job offer from a US employer in specific circumstances.

US citizenship and immigration services have updated its political guidance to clarify evaluation of eligibility for the second preference protection-based (EB-2) Classification for immigrant petitions requesting a national interest.

Third preference EB-3 visa is for a skilled worker, professional or other worker without advanced degrees or extraordinary abilities. EB-5 Visa is the employment-based fifth preference visa that makes investors justified to apply for legal permanent residence and become green card holders if they make the required investments and create a certain number of jobs in the US economy.

EB-1 and EB-5 final action dates will remain unchanged in March and remain as 01FEB22 and 01JAN22 respectively. EB-1 visa is an employment-based visa for first preference for people with extraordinary ability, excellent professors or researchers or certain multinational leaders or leaders.

It is important to understand when to use final dates of action “and when to use” dates for archiving applications. Persons preparing to archive USCIS adjustment of status applications must refer to “final action dates” charts for the relevant filing dates. USCIS can use “Dates for archiving visa applications” charts on its website when there are more immigrant visas than known applicants.

Consular officers report qualified applicants to numerically limited visas to the Ministry of State, while USCIS reports status adjustments. The awards in the diagrams below were made to the practical degree in chronological order of specified priority dates for demand received before February 3rd.

The financial year 2025 boundary for the family’s sponsored preference migrants is 226,000. The worldwide level of annual employment -based preference immigrants is at least 140,000. Section 202 prescribes that the limit per Land for preference migrants has been set at 7% of the total annual family-sponsored and employment-based preference limits, ie. 25,620. The dependent area limit is set to 2%or 7,320.

Family sponsored preferences

First: (F1) unmarried sons and daughters of US citizens: 23,400 plus any number not required for fourth preference.

Secondly: Spouses and children, and unmarried sons and daughters of permanent residents: 114,200, plus the number (if any), on which the worldwide family preference level exceeds 226,000, plus any unused first preference numbers:

A. (F2A) spouses and children of permanent residents: 77% of the total other preference limit, of which 75% are exempt from the limit per year. Country;

B. (F2B) unmarried sons and daughters (21 years or older) of permanent residents: 23% of the total other preference restriction.

Third: (F3) married sons and daughters of American citizens: 23,400, plus the numbers not required by first and second preferences.

Fourth: (F4) brothers and sisters of adult American citizens: 65,000, plus the numbers not required by the first three preferences.

Employment -based preferences

First: Priority Workers: 28.6% of the worldwide employment -based preference level plus any number not required for fourth and fifth preferences.

Secondly: Members of the professions that have advanced degrees or persons with extraordinary ability: 28.6% of the worldwide employment -based preference level, plus any number not required at first preference.

Third: qualified workers, professionals and other workers: 28.6% of the worldwide level, plus any number not required by first and second preferences, of which no more than 10,000 must “**other workers”.

Fourth: Certain special immigrants: 7.1% of the worldwide level.

Fifth: Creating Employment: 7.1% of the worldwide level, 32% reserved as follows: 20% reserved for qualified immigrants investing in a rural area; 10% reserved for qualified immigrants investing in a high unemployment area; and 2% reserved for qualified immigrants investing in infrastructure projects. The remaining 68% are unreserved and are allocated to all other qualified immigrants.

A. Final dates of action for the family’s sponsored preferences

B. Dates for Filing Family-sponsored Visa Applications

A. Final dates of action for employment -based preference cases

B. Dates for filing employment -based visa applications