The Visa Bulletin for June 2019 has been
released by the U.S. Department of State. While most of the dates
for employment-based preference categories will only gradually
shift from the dates published in May 2019, the EB-1 category for
India is set to retrogress by more than two years.
Below is a summary of the three primary employment-based
preference categories and the changes to each, if any, since the May 2019 Visa Bulletin was
published.
EB-1. Just as the State Department warned in
May 2019, the date for India will retrogress from February 22,
2017, to January 1, 2015. The retrogression is only expected to
last until October 1, 2019. China will remain at February 22, 2017,
for June 2019, though the State Department had also warned of a
possible retrogression for China in the coming months. The dates
for all other EB-1 countries will progress by seven weeks to April
22, 2018.
