Thursday, December 16, 2010

Visa Numbers/Craziness

See below, per December 2010 NSC liaison notes, remarks by Charles Oppenheim of DOS Visa Office. This is truly crazy stuff…………..

FROM Department of State


 

Charles Oppenheim was at this meeting. His prior statements to AILA were in September 2010. DOS and USCIS do not have a good grasp on the I-485 cases that are in the USCIS district offices awaiting a priority date, but have already completed an interview. This could be 45% of the total cases. DOS and USCIS are working to confirm these numbers.


 

There are an estimated 55,000 EB-3 India cases from April 2007 and before. With the per-country third-preference limitation of approximately 2800 immigrant visas per year, this backlog is expected to take approximately 15 years to clear. There will be very slow movement in China and India EB-2 and EB-3 cases this year, probably 1 to 2 weeks per month for the remainder of this year. Family 2A is expected to stop moving forward and could retrogress later this year.


 

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