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Every time I see someone talking about immigrating processing times, the number seems to go up... Per the state departments August 2019 bulletin, the actual ba
by kec 7y ago
Every time I see someone talking about immigrating processing times, the number seems to go up...
Per the state departments August 2019 bulletin, the actual backlog to file for an EB-3 green card is currently 3 years for China, and 9 for India....
- zzz95 7y agoWhere did you see that? USCIS in its bulletins never releases the number of years only the year it is processing. If you extrapolate the EB-1 wait for Indians, it is closer to 9 years, but most people are in EB-2/3 which is 50yrs out.
- kec 7y agoThe August bulletin currently lists April 2010 for India EB-3 (October 2017 for EB-1). If you go back through the last few years of bulletins, this 9 year wait has been relatively stable. Unless you believe there's been a massive spike in applicants in the past few years, there's no reason to believe the current wait for new applicants is 50 or 70 years.
- zzz95 7y agoI don't think that's quite right. Have a look at Indian EB-2 . The August 2014 bulletin [2] lists the current year as 22JAN09 which has moved to 02MAY09 in the August 2019 bulletin [1]. This means that in the last 5 years, they have moved from Jan09 -> May09. Very stable! [1]https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2019/visa-bulletin-for-august-2019.html https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/v... [2]https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2014/visa-bulletin-for-august-2014.html https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/v...