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William, My U.S. Green Card application based on EB2 NIW has been approved by USCIS, thank you very much for the help of your excellent NIW DIY package! Now, I am ready to apply for I-485 to get my Green Card. But recently, there is an immigrant visa retrogression for my country, why are immigrant visa mumbers retrogressed? Answer, Some times, U.S. Department of States' (DOS) Visa Bulletin (https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin.html) may provide not good news in significant retrogression in several employment-based categories for some countries. Whenever there is immigrant visa retrogression, a cutoff date that moves backwards in the monthly visa bulletin, it inevitably raises questions and concerns from foreign nationals with pending I-485 adjustment of status applications. The U.S. Department of State visa bulletin is responsible for estimating the expected usage of immigrant visa numbers in the various family and employment-based categories. Normally, the immigrant visa numbers move forward at the start of the fiscal year, unless the DOS believes that the number of pending I-485 applications and immigrant visa cases in a particular category exceeds the immigrant visa numbers available for the coming fiscal year. For a fiscal year, the DOS may determine that if it does not retrogress certain categories, such as EB2 India or EB2 China, all of the immigrant visa numbers would be used within a few weeks at the start of the fiscal year. This would violate the mandate of U.S. Congress regarding usage of immigrant visa numbers during the fiscal year. Therefore, the immigrant visa retrogression in these countries is needed. |
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