So the May visa bulletin is finally out. And in this video, I'll break it down a little
bit, the most important points, and also, how the presidential ban will impact the visa
bulletin in May. So, I'll see you on the other side. In this video, we'll talk about the
May visa bulletin. We've been waiting for it for many, many weeks now and it's finally
out early this week. So, we'll kind of break it down a little bit, the key points and we'll
see what the impact of the 60-day ban of the recent executive order will be on this bulletin
and how it will impact your case. Before that, if you're here for the first time, make sure
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My name is Jacob Sapochnick and I'm an immigration attorney located in San Diego, California.
We practice in all 50 states. And especially the past two weeks have been crazy. We've
been updating clients everywhere and hopefully, this video will give you a little bit more
update about what's happening. So, many of you will be following the visa bulletin every
month. It pertains to your green card cases based on employment and family and the visa
bulletin essentially predicts and states which visa numbers are current, so people know that
they can actually file for their green cards. I have some of my notes here with updates
about the current visa bulletin, so some little highlights. First of all, this time, the visa
bulletin was released quite late in the month. Typically, it comes kind of middle of the
month but this time it came quite late, which for obvious reasons with all the messages
happening. EB1 categories are current for all countries, except from China and India
as expected. There's a little advancement in all other categories but it wasn't really
significant enough to be so excited about it. What is interesting about this bulletin
is, the USCIS, for the second month in a row, is now accepting final action dates for processing
records, specifically in the category of employment-based green cards, which is pretty good and interesting
that they're doing it already for the second time. So, let's go look at some highlights
for the visa bulletin for May 2020. So, if you go with the EB1, all countries except
from China and India will become current in May looks like China advanced by five weeks,
and now it's July 2017. And India, advanced three months and now it's in August 2015.
And remember what while these are small advances, you know, considering what's happening right
now, we expect more changes happening in the next few months because of all the delays
that are happening with this order but also with other things because of COVID-19 in general.
EB2 for China is going to move forward by one month. Now, it's October 2015. And EB2
for India is just advancing for one week to June 2009. EB3 worldwide remains retrogressed
and stuck on January 1, 2017. And EB3 China is advancing just one month to May 15, 2016.
So again, this is kind of frustrating because we have a lot of nurses that are waiting to
come here to help with all this COVID-19 mess and they're not able to come right now because
EB3 category is still backlogged. So, hopefully, there's going to be some changes in this area.
Unfortunately, I cannot report any more information on that except for just waiting and see what
happens. B3, we have a lot of questions from skilled workers that are waiting and also
unskilled. On all countries, except India and China, are going to remain stuck on January
1, 2017. So we'll see what happens. EB5, some updates on EB5. Most countries are current,
which is good. People were waiting. We had a lot of people that filed, if you remember,
before the November deadline, people filed for the EB5. So currently, most countries
are current. China's advancing about six weeks, July 2015. And India is going to advance nine
months in May to October 1, 2019, which is good news. We had a lot of investors from
India that filed and so they were frustrated with the backlog. So, things are looking a
little bit looking good. And Vietnam is on April 1, 2017. So, small advance over there
as well. So once again, as I mentioned in the beginning, USCIS announced that it's going
to honor final action date for Adjustment of Status, It is again the second time in
a row, they're doing this. It's actually going to help people to file their adjustments a
little bit quicker. So, that's good. Hopefully, it will continue as well. So, we'll update
you on that as well. So, people are asking… so, this is kind of in a glance, and we have
an article that we have on our blog that kind of breaks down in more detail the May visa
bulletin. The impact of the 60-day ban is really not that significant. And the reason
is because we already had backlog before we already have, the embassies and consulates
are closed since April, people are not able to go for their appointments. So, the fact
that the visa bulletin is delayed in certain categories, is not going to impact people
that significantly. But again, we'll see what happens. We'll see if this is going to be
extended. And also, we'll see how visa numbers are going to move in other categories. On
the family side, F2A category is still current. So, people that are in the United States,
spouses of green card holders, they can still file for their adjustments. And all other
categories, there are really slight movements but it's still really really backlogged in
most standard categories, especially F4 for brothers and sisters, we don't see too much
hope in there right now. Hopefully, we can update more in next month's visa bulletin.
And so, just a quick video update on May 2020 visa bulletin, we have a full article in our
blog. A lot of questions about priority dates and people are waiting and what's going to
happen. Once again, I wanted to mention that we have started a private Facebook group.
So, continued the discussion, answered a lot of your questions specifically related to
COVID-19 delays, visa bulletin, people reschedule interviews. A lot of the questions are being
discussed in a group. So, make sure you click the link in the description of this video
and join the group so we can continue the discussion, and answer your questions. So,
once again, if you have any questions about the May visa bulletin or anything else that
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