The Department of State has released the September Visa Bulletin. D&S provides a Monthly Summary of the employment-based priority dates. USCIS has advised that, in September 2021, it will continue to accept adjustment of status applications for employment-based petitions based on final action dates.
With respect to Final Action Dates, EB-1 China and EB-1 India will both remain current. With the exception of India and China, all other EB-2 countries of chargeability will remain current. EB-2 China will advance three months to July 1, 2018 and EB-2 India will advance three months to September 1, 2011. All EB-3 categories except India and China will remain current. EB-3 China will remain at January 8, 2019, and EB-3 India will advance six months to January 1, 2014.
The EB-5 Regional Center program has not been reauthorized by Congress. As a result, this category will not be available for September 2021. Final action dates for the EB-5 Non-Regional Center program remain current for all countries of chargeability except China, which will remain at November 15, 2015, and Vietnam, which will remain current.
With respect to Application Filing Dates, all categories will remain unchanged from July except EB-2 China, which advances two months to September 1, 2018, and EB-3 India and Other Workers India, which both advance one month to March 1, 2014.