The Department of State has released the December 2020 Visa Bulletin. D&S provides a Monthly Summary of the employment-based priority dates. USCIS has advised that, in December 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, for China all categories will remain unchanged from November, with the exception of EB-1, which advanced two months to November 1, 2020. For India, EB-1 also advances by two months to November 1, 2020, but both EB-3 and "Other Workers" retrogressed by one year to January 1, 2014. For all other countries of chargeability, all EB-1 to EB-3 and “Other Workers” categories remain current.
As for Final Action Dates, for both China and India EB-1 advances four months to April 1, 2019. EB-2 China advances nine days to May 1, 2016, EB-3 China advances one month to November 1, 2017, and China “Other Workers” advances over a month to February 15, 2009. For India, EB-2 advances 9 days to October 1, 2009, while both EB-3 and “Other Workers” advance 15 days to March 15, 2010, while all other categories remain current. For all other countries of chargeability, all EB-1 to EB-3 and “Other Workers” categories remain current.
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 September 1, 2017.