hi friends I'm back with another video
about case processing times apparently
this is the hottest subject out there
right now in the world of immigration
and rightly so because the government is
so behind with processing your petitions
and applications but in this video I'm
going to hone in on where things are
this month with the Visa Bulletin may 20
19 Fiza bulletin you don't want to miss
it stay tuned
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work now case processing times it's it's
slow we know that now the question is
where is the government with respect to
some of these family-based petitions
right you might be on the other end of
things where you're just waiting you're
sitting and you're waiting and you don't
know when your priority date is going to
become current so that you can go ahead
and submit your visa application so that
you can be interviewed at the Embassy
well this is only for those who are
overseas right but if you're here in the
United States you're probably thinking
okay when is my priority date gonna come
up because I want to adjust my status
I'm waiting I'm waiting on either the
interview to be scheduled or I'm waiting
on a decision or even a response from
the government to a request for
additional information that you prepared
and submitted to them and you're just
waiting I understand obviously that
waiting can be very challenging right
because it can slow you down with your
affairs some of you are out there and
you can't work you can't work because
you're waiting on one of these petitions
to be approved and you're stuck and so
this has the delay has very very real
consequences for many people that much I
do know because I talked to you every
day in my practice all right so let's go
straight to the May 2019 Visa Bulletin
and so we're gonna look at the first
table right table a which says final
action dates for family sponsored
preference
cases
that is truly a mouthful and so
basically in a nutshell this table tells
you what the government is up to in
terms of the backlog as I've said in
other videos the government is facing a
very very significant backlog in all of
these categories as a matter of fact
right you have people who have been
waiting for over ten years for a green
card or for the approval of the i-130
Family petition and then you have others
who've been waiting for five years some
three years two years others five six
months and so it depends on where you
fall into the family preference category
or whether you're an immediate relative
of a US citizen in which case you would
not be here you you're not on this table
if you're an immediate relative of a US
citizen visas are readily available and
you're not put into this system where
you have to sit and wait for many years
for your i-130 to be approved and for
you to get the green card everyone else
however they are here they're in this
backlog and so let's take a look at the
f1 category the f1 category is the
category made up of unmarried sons and
daughters of u.s. citizens now these are
the adult children of US citizens and so
they're in that f1 category the
government is now up to January 8th 2012
meaning that if the petition was filed
before this date you're now able to move
along the process and submit a visa
application if you're a foreigner
overseas you're able to go ahead and
move forward with that process if you're
here in the United States and you're
eligible to adjust your status you're
now able to submit the i-485 application
now let's look at the f2 a category f2 a
is made up of spouses and children of
green card holders now in this category
the f2 a category
we're talking about children meaning
children for immigration purposes are
those who are unmarried and under the
age of
t1 so that's who is in this category
along with the spouse of a green card
holder and so the government is now up
to May 15 2017 this category actually
moves much faster because this is almost
like an immediate relative right you're
talking about your spouse and you're
talking about a young child so the
government with our family unity policy
or belief system thinks that those
people need to be close together whereas
if you find yourself in the f2 B
category now you're an adult you are an
adult child of a green card holder
you're over 21 and so you face a longer
wait time because the government doesn't
see the urgency if you join in you're a
parent now the government for the f2 B
category is up to February 1st 2013
so again if the petition was filed
before this date you may go ahead and
move forward with the visa application
or the adjustment of status if you're
eligible to adjust your status next the
f3 category here we're talking about
married sons and daughters of US citizen
again going back to that rationale right
these are married married sons and
daughters they don't need to cling to
mommy and daddy so the government thinks
that those adult married children
quote-unquote children can wait a bit
longer
these folks are facing a very long wait
time the government is only up to
November 8th 2006 petitions yes 2006
they're still in 2006 for that category
and then last but not least is the
sibling category the f4 which is the
worst category to possibly be in the
government is up to February 15 2006 so
that's what twelve or thirteen years
wait time for sibling petitions when you
jump down to table B which we're not
going to get into in great detail the
thing about these two tables is that if
you find really what we as practitioners
do we look at both tables and
if the priority date is sooner actually
on one of the tables that's what we rely
on and that's what we work with people
on moving forward moving their visa
application forward so you can certainly
do the same thing right take a look at
chart B and see whether the priority
date is more recent than under in table
A and go ahead and proceed with the visa
application accordingly or the i-485 now
this is all I'm going to share in this
brief video again case processing times
have slowed down but I wanted to at
least give you a sense of where things
are with respect to the priority dates
that are on the Visa Bulletin for May
2019 friends comment below tell me if
you have another question about case
processing times I'm going through these
questions and believe me I have a list I
have a list of some of the top questions
that folks have been asking me stay
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