Each fiscal year The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) sets the number of immigrant visas for noncitizens to get Green Cards. Immigrant visas for the family-sponsored and employment-based immigrant categories are numerically limited, so they are not always immediately available. Generally, family-sponsored visas are limited to 226,000 visas each fiscal year and employment-based visas are limited to 140,000 each fiscal year. USCIS recently announced that approximately 57,000 unused family-sponsored visa numbers from FY 2022 are being added to the employment-based visas in FY 2023. That means the employment-based annual limit for FY2023 will be higher than before the pandemic.
Remzi Guvenc Kulen, Esq.
Kulen Law Firm, P.C.
