{"id":1998,"date":"2017-08-03T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swlgpc.com\/eng\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2017-08-03T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T22:29:00","slug":"august-2017-visa-bulletin-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/august-2017-visa-bulletin-issued\/","title":{"rendered":"AUGUST 2017 VISA BULLETIN ISSUED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of State (DOS) has issued its August\u00a02017 Visa Bulletin. \u00a0Most notably, there has been a significant retrogression for the priority dates for EB-2 and EB-3 worldwide and no advancement for EB-2 for India and EB-3 for China. There has also been no advancement for the priority dates for EB-1 for China and India following a significant retrogression during the June 2017 Visa Bulletin.<\/p>\n<p><u>EB-1-Worldwide<\/u>:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<u>Priority dates are current,<\/u>\u00a0<strong>except:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>China<\/u>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<u>Priority date of January\u00a01, 2012<\/u>\u00a0(No Advancement)<\/p>\n<p><u>India<\/u>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<u>Priority date of January\u00a01, 2012<\/u>\u00a0(No Advancement)<\/p>\n<p><u>EB-2-Worldwide<\/u>:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<u>Priority date of April\u00a01, 2015<\/u>\u00a0(Retrogression)<\/p>\n<p><u>China<\/u>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<u>Priority date of April\u00a022, 2013<\/u>\u00a0(Advancement of 30\u00a0days)<\/p>\n<p><u>India<\/u>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<u>Priority date of July 22, 2008\u00a0<\/u>(No Advancement)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">El Salvador,<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Priority date of April 1, 2015<\/span>\u00a0(Retrogression)<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Guatemala,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Honduras<\/span>:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mexico<\/span>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Priority date of April 1, 2015<\/span>\u00a0(Retrogression)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Philippines<\/span>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Priority date of April 1, 2015<\/span>\u00a0(Retrogression)<\/p>\n<p><u>EB-3-Worldwide<\/u>: \u00a0 \u00a0<u>Priority dates of June 8, 2017<\/u>\u00a0(Retrogression)<\/p>\n<p><u>China<\/u>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<u>Priority date of January\u00a01, 2012<\/u>\u00a0(No Advancement)<\/p>\n<p><u>India<\/u>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<u>Priority date of July\u00a015, 2006<\/u>\u00a0(Advancement of 150\u00a0days)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">El Salvador,<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Priority date of April 1, 2015<\/span>\u00a0(Retrogression)<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Guatemala,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Honduras<\/span>:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mexico<\/span>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Priority date of April 1, 2015<\/span>\u00a0(Retrogression)<\/p>\n<p><u>Philippines<\/u>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<u>Priority date of June 1, 2015<\/u>\u00a0(Advancement of 1 year and 17\u00a0days)<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>USCIS ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS DATES<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If USCIS determines that there are more immigrant visas available for a fiscal year than there are known applicants for such visas, the USCIS will state on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/visabulletininfo\">www.uscis.gov\/visabulletininfo<\/a>\u00a0that you may use the\u00a0<strong><em>Dates for Filing Visa Applications<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0chart in the Department of State August\u00a02017 Visa Bulletin. Otherwise, USCIS will indicate on their web site that you must use the\u00a0<strong><em>Application Final Action Dates<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0chart to determine when you may file your adjustment of status application in the United States.\u00a0 Currently, as of this publication, the USCIS has not determined which chart to use for August\u00a02017.\u00a0 The dates listed above are the Application Final Action Dates.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Check-In with Charlie Oppenheim<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is no August\u00a02017 analysis or predictions from Charlie Oppenheim, Chief of Visa Control and Reporting Division for the U.S. Department of State (DOS).\u00a0 Charlie Oppenheim is responsible for analyzing and predicting immigrant preference categories. SW Law Group will post any updated analysis and predictions from Charlie Oppenheim if such information is released this month.<\/p>\n<p>Please contact\u00a0<strong>SW Law Group\u00a0<\/strong>if you have any further questions regarding these developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of State (DOS) has issued its August\u00a02017 Visa Bulletin. \u00a0Most notably, there has been a significant retrogression for the priority dates for EB-2 and EB-3 worldwide and no advancement for EB-2 for India and EB-3 for China. There has also been no advancement for the priority dates for EB-1 for China and India [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[14,8,19,11,38,10],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}