{"id":2584,"date":"2019-04-25T11:57:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T18:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swlgpc.com\/eng\/?p=2584"},"modified":"2019-04-25T11:57:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T18:57:01","slug":"may-2019-visa-bulletin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/may-2019-visa-bulletin\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2019 Visa Bulletin Issued"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Department of State (DOS) has issued its May 2019 Visa Bulletin. Most notably, there were steady advancements for all priority dates except for EB-1 for China and India which saw no advancement.<\/p>\n

EB-1-Worldwide<\/u>:<\/p>\n

China<\/u>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Priority date of February 22, 2017<\/u>\u00a0(No Advancement)<\/p>\n

India<\/u>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Priority date of February 22, 2017<\/u>\u00a0(No Advancement)<\/p>\n

El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras<\/span>: March 1, 2018<\/span>\u00a0(Advancement of 29 days)<\/p>\n

Mexico<\/span>:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Priority date of March 1, 2018<\/span>\u00a0(Advancement of 29 days)<\/p>\n

Philippines<\/span>:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Priority date of March 1, 2018<\/span>\u00a0(Advancement of 29 days)<\/p>\n

Vietnam<\/span>:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Priority date of March 1, 2018<\/span>\u00a0(Advancement of 29 days)<\/p>\n

Other areas<\/span>:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Priority date of March 1, 2018<\/span>\u00a0(Advancement of 29 days)<\/p>\n

EB-2-Worldwide<\/u>:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Priority dates are current,<\/u>\u00a0except:<\/strong><\/p>\n

China<\/u>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Priority date of May 15, 2016<\/u>\u00a0(Advancement of 45 days)<\/p>\n

India<\/u>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Priority date of April 16, 2009\u00a0<\/u>(Advancement of 5 days)<\/p>\n

EB-3-Worldwide<\/u>:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Priority dates are current,<\/u>\u00a0except:<\/strong><\/p>\n

China<\/u>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Priority date of August 22, 2015<\/u>\u00a0(Advancement of 22 days)<\/p>\n

India<\/u>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Priority date of July 1, 2009<\/u>\u00a0(Advancement of 10 days)<\/p>\n

Philippines<\/span>:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Priority date of June 1, 2018<\/span>\u00a0(Advancement of 93 days)<\/p>\n

USCIS ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS DATES<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0www.uscis.gov\/visabulletininfo<\/a>\u00a0that you may use the\u00a0Dates for Filing Visa Applications<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0chart in the Department of State May 2019 Visa Bulletin. Otherwise, USCIS will indicate on their web site that you must use the\u00a0Application 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 May 2019.\u00a0 The dates listed above are the Application Final Action Dates.<\/p>\n

Check-In with Charlie Oppenheim<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

There is no May 2019 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

Please do not hesitate to contact\u00a0our office if you have any further questions regarding this matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Department of State (DOS) has issued its May 2019 Visa Bulletin. Most notably, there were steady advancements for all priority dates except for EB-1 for China and India which saw no advancement. EB-1-Worldwide: China: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Priority date of February 22, 2017\u00a0(No Advancement) India: \u00a0 \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2585,"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":[39,17,14,8,19,11,38],"tags":[46,53,40],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584"}],"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=2584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/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=2584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2584"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}