The August 2019 Visa Bulletin,
released by the U.S. Department of State earlier this month, shows
substantial retrogression affecting employment-based categories
worldwide. The State Department expects the retrogression to be
short lived and anticipates that the final action dates should
return to those listed in the July 2019 Visa Bulletin by the start
of fiscal year 2020 in October 2019.
Below is a summary of the three primary employment-based
preference categories:
EB-1. India will remain the same at January 1,
2015. All other countries, including China, will retrogress to July
1, 2016. That works out to be a retrogression of almost one year
for China and almost two for the remaining countries.
