{"id":578,"date":"2017-04-12T16:01:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T04:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swlgpc.com\/en\/blog\/?p=578"},"modified":"2017-04-12T16:01:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T04:01:44","slug":"may-2017-visa-bulletin-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/may-2017-visa-bulletin-issued\/","title":{"rendered":"MAY 2017 VISA BULLETIN ISSUED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of State (DOS) has issued its May\u00a02017 Visa Bulletin.\u00a0 For the categories that are not current, there continues to be slow advancement for EB-2 and EB-3 categories.\u00a0 Notably, EB-2 India has made no advancement since the April 2017 Visa Bulletin.<\/p>\n<p><u>EB-1-Worldwide<\/u>:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<u>Priority dates are current<\/u><\/p>\n<p><u>EB-2-Worldwide<\/u>:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<u>Priority dates are current<\/u>, <strong>except:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>China<\/u>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<u>Priority date of February\u00a013, 2013<\/u> (Advancement of 24\u00a0days)<\/p>\n<p><u>India<\/u>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<u>Priority date of June 22, 2008 <\/u>(No\u00a0Advancement )<\/p>\n<p><u>EB-3-Worldwide<\/u>: \u00a0 \u00a0<u>Priority date of March\u00a015, 2017<\/u> (Advancement of 1\u00a0month)<\/p>\n<p><u>China<\/u>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<u>Priority date of October\u00a01, 2014<\/u> (Advancement of 47 days)<\/p>\n<p><u>India<\/u>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<u>Priority date of March 25, 2005<\/u> (Advancement of 1\u00a0day)<\/p>\n<p><u>Philippines<\/u>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<u>Priority date of January\u00a01, 2013<\/u>\u00a0(Advancement of 108 days)<\/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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/visabulletininfo\">www.uscis.gov\/visabulletininfo<\/a> that you may use the\u00a0<strong><em>Dates for Filing Visa Applications<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0chart in the Department of State May\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 May\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 May\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 <strong>SW Law Group <\/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 May\u00a02017 Visa Bulletin.\u00a0 For the categories that are not current, there continues to be slow advancement for EB-2 and EB-3 categories.\u00a0 Notably, EB-2 India has made no advancement since the April 2017 Visa Bulletin. EB-1-Worldwide:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Priority dates are current EB-2-Worldwide:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Priority dates are current, except: China: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[14,8,19,11,10],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578"}],"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=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}