President Obama announced the executive order in November 2014(https://www.uscis.gov/immigrationaction https://www.uscis.gov/immigrationaction) Since then, the

President Obama announced the executive order in November 2014(https://www.uscis.gov/immigrationaction https://www.uscis.gov/immigrationaction) Since then, the USCIS has just complicated the process by adding one more application "Filling for Employment Application" which is actually 5 years apart form the Final Action date(when the visa number is actually made available). There have been numerous meetings to solve this mess which affects the USCIS and DHS too. But the Corporate-Legal/lawyers lobby tends to win over USCIS every time justifying to keep the dates as is, and not to use the un-used visa numbers from other countries, after-all they make more money when the legal immigrants are kept in limbo, and applying for various applications and are bound to stick to a single employer.