The Department of State has released the January 2023 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. USCIS has announced that, in January 2023, applicants will be able to file employment-based adjustment of status applications based on the Final Action Dates chart and family-based applicants will be able to file according to the Dates of Filing Chart.
With respect to Final Action Dates, as anticipated, EB-1 China and India will both retrogress to February 1, 2022. All other EB-1 categories remain current. All EB-2 and EB-3 categories remain unchanged. EB-3 Other Workers moved ahead 6 months to December 22, 2013. 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. All other Date for Filing remain unchanged from December.