The Department of State has released the February 2021 Visa Bulletin. D&S provides a Monthly Summary of the employment-based priority dates. USCIS has advised that, in February 2021, it will continue to accept adjustment of status applications for employment-based petitions based on the February Bulletin’s final action dates.
With respect to Final Action Dates, all countries of chargeability, except India and China, will remain current. EB-1 China and EB-1 India will advance four months to January 1, 2020. With the exception of India and China, all other EB-2 countries of chargeability will remain current. EB-2 China will advance two weeks to June 15, 2016 and EB-2 India will advance four days to October 12, 2009. All EB-3 categories except India and China will remain current. EB-3 China will advance two weeks to January 1, 2018, and EB-3 India will advance ten days to April 1, 2010.
The EB-5 Regional Center program has been reauthorized by Congress until mid-2021. As a result, final action dates have become current for January for all countries of chargeability except for China, which is subject to an August 15, 2015 final action date, and for Vietnam, which is subject to an October 1, 2017 final action date. Final action dates for the EB-5 Non-Regional Center program remain current for all countries of chargeability except China, which will remain unchanged at August 15, 2015, and Vietnam, which will advance two weeks to October 1 , 2017.
With respect to Application Filing Dates, all categories (with the exception of the “Other Workers”, EB-4 special immigrants, and “Certain Religious Workers” categories) will remain unchanged from January.