DOS posted the visa bulletin for January 2023. USCIS determined that for January 2023, all family-sponsored preference categories and all employment-based preference categories must use the Dates for Filing chart in the visa bulletin. According to January 2023 visa bulletin, visa numbers will still be current for Second preference (F2A) – spouses and children (unmarried and under 21 years of…
USCIS encourages applicants to include Form I-693, Medical Examination and Vaccination Record at the time of filing. Currently, USCIS is expanding potential waivers for interviews in family based green card applications. Based on the potential waiver of interviews in family-based adjustment of status applications, USCIS advises applicants to send their Form I-693 with their initial application. This will avoid the…
The INA provides that an applicant for a visa, admission, or adjustment of status is inadmissible if in the opinion of the consular officer, immigration officer, or immigration judge at the time of application for a visa, admission, or adjustment of status, the applicant is likely at any time to become dependent on certain government benefits in the future, which…
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…
Applicants who file adjustment of status application to become a lawful permanent resident, must submit I-693, Report of Medical Examination and Vaccination Record to establish that the applicant is not inadmissible to the United States on public health grounds. Recently, most of the applicants who already submitted their Medical Examination receiving RFEs requesting medical exam for their adjustment of status…
DOS posted the visa bulletin for December 2022. USCIS determined that for December 2022, all family-sponsored preference categories must use the Dates for Filing chart in the Visa Bulletin and all employment-based preference categories must use the Final Action Dates chart. According to December 2022 visa bulletin, visa numbers will still be current for Second preference (F2A) – spouses and…
