Department of State November 2020 Visa Bulletin Summary

The Department of State has released the November 2020 Visa Bulletin. D&S provides a Monthly Summary of the employment-based priority dates. USCIS has advised that, in November 2020, it will once again accept adjustment of status applications for both employment-based and family-based petitions based on the November Bulletin’s application filing dates for all categories except for the F2A family-based category, which may file based on final action dates.

With respect to Application Filing Dates, all categories (with the exception of the “Other Workers” category) will remain unchanged from October. As for Final Action Dates, all countries of chargeability, except India and China, will remain current. EB-1 China and EB-1 India will advance six months to December 1, 2018. With the exception of India and China, all other EB-2 countries of chargeability will remain current. EB-2 China will advance almost two months to April 22, 2016 and EB-2 India will advance just under a month to September 22, 2009. All EB-3 categories except India and China will remain current. EB-3 China will advance three months to October 1, 2017, and EB-3 India will advance one and a half months to March 1, 2010. 

The EB-5 Regional Center program has been extended by legislation until December 11, 2020.  As such, final action dates for both the EB-5 Regional and Non-Regional Center programs for all countries of chargeability except for China and Vietnam will remain current. EB-5 China will remain unchanged at August 15, 2015, and EB-5 Vietnam will advance two weeks to August 15, 2017.