Visa Bulletin - January 2011

January 2011 Visa Bulletin was released on 9th December 2010. As predicted there was no major movement for employment based category. Major movement for the EB-2 employment based category for India and China will be seen in month of June-July 2011, only when unused visa numbers will be available due to spillover from EB2- ROW and EB-1 . Until then one should expect small or no movement in EB-2 category. Eb-3 movement will still be at snail pace for rest of the year. Family Based category would see retrogression for rest of the year.

Family Based :

As per January Visa Bulletin, family categories had seen as much of the advancement of the last two years has been reversed with major retrogression.

"As reported in the December Visa Bulletin (number 27), the cut-off dates for most family preference categories advanced at a very rapid pace during the past two years. Those movements have resulted in a dramatic increase in the level of applicant demand received in recent months. This has required the retrogression of many Family preference cut-off dates for January in an effort to hold number use within the various numerical limits. Further retrogression cannot be ruled out should demand continue at the current levels" (emphasis added)."




Employment Based :

The only good news was a ten month jump for Mexico EB-3 cases.

Employment 1st - still current in all categories.

Employment 2nd - weak movement for India and China; just a two week improvement for China (22 June 2006) and stalled again for India (8 May 2006).

Employment 3rd - modest movement; one month advance for most countries to 22 March 2005; one week advance for China to 15 December 2003; India moves up one week to 1 February 2002. Mexico jumps 10 months to 15 April 2003 and the Philippines jumps a month to 22 March 2005.

Employment 3rd Other Workers – most countries remain stalled at 22 April 2003; India moves up one week to 1 February 2002; Mexico jumps 10 months to 15 April 2003.

Employment 4th - still current in all categories.

Employment 5th - still current in all categories.

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