Notably, the State Department stated with certainty that the
EB-2 Rest of the World category likely will retrogress in the
coming months.
At a recent American Immigration Lawyers Association meeting,
the US Department of State made comments about Employment-Based
(EB) cut-off date movement in the final third of the fiscal year.
This Immigration Alert summarizes the comments made by the State
Department and what they could mean for EB cut-off date movement in
the upcoming months.
EB-1: China and India
US Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that the
"final action date" of January 1, 2012 will control for
the China and India EB-1 categories. These have apparently
exhausted close to 50% of the entire EB-1 limit for the 2017 fiscal
year. This cut-off date is expected to be maintained until the end
of September, when the fiscal year ends. The final action cut-off
date for the China and India EB-1 categories may once again become
current at the start of the
