The Department of State has released the December 2022 Visa Bulletin. D&S provides a Monthly Summary of the employment-based priority dates. The most notable change in the latest visa bulletin is additional retrogression in the employment-based, second preference (EB-2) category across all preference categories.
With respect to Final Action Dates, all EB-1 categories will remain current for all preference categories. However, EB-1 India and EB-1 China are likely to retrogress in the coming months. The EB-2 category will retrogress for most countries. Specifically, India will retrogress by more than six months to October 8, 2011. China will remain unchanged at June 8, 2019 and all other countries will retrogress to November 1, 2022. EB-3 India’s Final Action Date will advance to June 15, 2022 and China will advance by six weeks to August 1, 2018. All other countries will remain current. In addition, for the Final Action date for the EB-5 Unreserved categories, China and India will remain at March 22, 2015 and November 8, 2019, respectively. EB-5 Final Action dates will remain current for all other countries and EB-5 “Set Aside” categories.
With respect to Application Filing Dates, all EB-1 countries will remain current. EB-2 China’s Date for Filing will remain unchanged at July 8, 2019 and EB-2 India’s Date for Filing will remain unchanged at May 1, 2012. EB-3 China’s Date for Filing will advance to September 1, 2018 and EB-3 India’s Date for Filing will advance to August 1, 2012. For December, USCIS has indicated that it will use the Dates of Filing chart for both family-based and employment-based preference categories.