The Department of State has released the April 2020 Visa Bulletin. D&S provides a Monthly Summary of the employment-based priority dates. As of today, USCIS has not yet advised whether, in April 2020, it will once again accept adjustment of status applications for both employment-based and family-based petitions based on the April Bulletin’s application filing dates, as it has for most categories for the past several months. The April Bulletin’s application filing dates for all categories will remain unchanged from the March Bulletin.
With respect to Employment Based (EB) Final Action Dates, all EB-1 countries of chargeability, except India and China, will advance three months to June 1, 2019. EB-1 China will advance one week to June 8, 2017 and EB-1 India will advance two months to May 1, 2015. With the exception of India and China, all other EB-2 countries of chargeability remain current. EB-2 China will advance two weeks to September 1, 2015, and EB-2 India will advance by just three days to May 25, 2009. All EB-3 categories except India and China will remain unchanged at January 1, 2017. EB-3 China will advance three weeks to April 15, 2016, and EB-3 India will advance one week to January 22, 2009.
EB-5 Non-Regional Center and EB-5 Regional Center Final Action Dates remain current with the exception of China, India and Vietnam. EB-5 China will remain unchanged at May 15, 2015, while EB-5 India will advance over two months to January 1, 2019, and EB-5 Vietnam will advance over three weeks to February 8, 2017.