{"id":2866,"date":"2020-06-19T13:01:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T20:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swlgpc.com\/eng\/?p=2866"},"modified":"2020-06-19T13:01:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T20:01:42","slug":"july-2020-visa-bulletin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/july-2020-visa-bulletin\/","title":{"rendered":"July 2020 Visa Bulletin Issued"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Department of State (DOS) has issued its July 2020 Visa Bulletin. Most notably, all chargeability areas for EB-1, EB-2, and EB-3 have made steady advancement.<\/p>\n

EB-1-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, 2017<\/u>\u00a0(Advancement of 7 days)<\/p>\n

India<\/u>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Priority date of May 8, 2017<\/u>\u00a0(Advancement of 334 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 November 8, 2015<\/u>\u00a0(Advancement of 7 days)<\/p>\n

India<\/u>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Priority date of July 8, 2009\u00a0<\/u>(Advancement of 26 days)<\/p>\n

EB-3-Worldwide<\/u>:<\/p>\n

China<\/u>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Priority date of June 22, 2016<\/u>\u00a0(Advancement of 7 days)<\/p>\n

India<\/u>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Priority date of June 1, 2009<\/u>\u00a0(Advancement of 61 days)<\/p>\n

El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras<\/u>:\u00a0April 15, 2018<\/u>\u00a0(Advancement of 158 days)<\/p>\n

Mexico<\/u>:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Priority date of April 15, 2018<\/u>\u00a0(Advancement of 158 days)<\/p>\n

Philippines<\/u>:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Priority date of April 15, 2018<\/u>\u00a0(Advancement of 158 days)<\/p>\n

Vietnam<\/u>:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Priority date of April 15, 2018<\/u>\u00a0(Advancement of 158 days)<\/p>\n

Other areas<\/u>:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Priority date of April 15, 2018<\/u>\u00a0(Advancement of 158 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 July 2020 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 July 2020.\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 June July 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Department of State (DOS) has issued its July 2020 Visa Bulletin. Most notably, all chargeability areas for EB-1, EB-2, and EB-3 have made steady advancement. EB-1-Worldwide:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Priority dates are current,\u00a0except: China: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Priority date of August 22, 2017\u00a0(Advancement of 7 days) India: \u00a0 \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,17,14,8,19,11,38],"tags":[46,79,40],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bulletin","category-employment-based-iv","category-general-immigration","category-general-news","category-immigrant-visas","category-immigration-news","category-latest-news","tag-department-of-state","tag-july","tag-visa-bulletin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=2866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}