The December 2019 Visa Bulletin has been released by the U.S. Department of State, and while there are no major changes in this month’s bulletin, there is some information about a possible retrogression in the EB-2 category in the coming months. The following information from the Visa Bulletin is only relevant to individuals who are filing an EB-2 NIW, who are born in a country other than India or China, and who have not yet filed the I-485:
“In recent weeks there has been a steadily increasing level of Employment-based demand for adjustment of status cases filed with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Continuation of the current demand pattern would require the establishment of final action dates in the Employment Second, Third, and Third Other Worker preference categories as early as January. Such action would be required in an effort to hold number use within those FY 2020 annual limits.”
This is all of the information we have at this time: that there may be a retrogression in the EB-2 and EB-3 categories as soon as January 2020. We don’t yet know whether this would be based on filing or final action date and we likely will have no other information until the January Visa Bulletin is released next month.