Hello, everybody. Happy Friday to all of you. Just another quick live video here
to give you an update on the November 2020 Visa Bulletin. It just came out less than a
couple of days ago. And I just wanted to come on live, see how you’re doing and give you, guys,
an update as to what to expect. I'm going to do a couple of predictions at the end of the video. So,
make sure you stay until the end. And yeah, there's Jeff, let's dive right in. Here we go.
All right. So, welcome. Welcome, everybody who is joining in right now, wanted to talk a little bit
about the Visa Bulletin. I get here… we have two screens going on here. I get messages from... so,
here we go. So, this is the November Visa Bulletin, which finally came out less than two
days ago. And this is probably the first time in many, many years that the Visa Bulletin came out
so late in the month. Usually, it comes like mid-month. And we kind of expected
it because we have so much delays with family visas, embassies are still closed everywhere.
We have seen really “no movement” at all, and I'll talk about it as well. And I'll give some
predictions towards the end of this video, but really had no movement in the family petitions.
And there were definitely a few movements on the employment side. So, we'll talk about it as well.
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We definitely have seen some movement in the Final Action Date chart. And I'm going to go
into the chart in a second, but definitely no movement at all in the Dates of Filing,
which was expected. And I kind of predicted it in the previous video that I've done in October. So,
let's take a look at the Visa Bulletin. And so, once again, to find the Visa Bulletin, just go to
Google and type in Visa Bulletin and every month it's updated. I wanted to go to… we'll go into
the employment side right now and talk about the Final Action Date chart, which is the main chart,
which we're going to be looking at where we had movements, there was literally no movements in
the Dates of Filing. In the employment side, there was nothing and I'll explain again why not. So,
if you look at this category, we're going to go briefly through all the different categories.
But if we start with EB1… so it's EB1 first category, EB2 second category, and so forth, EB3.
So, for the EB1, we've seen China and India, they both had a movement. So, in the… I would
say two. They moved to December 1, 2018. If you look at that, you can see both China and India.
They're on the same date. And all other categories remain the same there. There's no movement. Here,
if we move to the EB2 category, you can see that India moves to September 22,
2009, on the Final Action Dates. And then, you have China that moves to April 22, 2016.
It still remains current on all other categories and there was no movement in the Dates of Filing.
And once again, remember that we have a lot of people that filed for downgrading. A lot of people
were downgrading from EB2 to EB3. So, there was definitely no moving over there. If you go into
EB3, we can see that India advanced to March 1, 2010. And China is on October 1, 2017. So,
again, this category remains current, which is great because we were filing a lot of cases
for people that were ready to adjust their status. So, the good news is that we can continue
to do so this month as well. In the EB4 category, Mexico moves to October 15, 2018.
And El Salvador, Honduras advances to November 2000. So, there's a little bit of movement over
there. And there's nothing happening in the EB5 category. So, there's no movement over there.
Once again, if you are inside the US, let's take a look at what's happening on the USCIS chart.
And so, essentially, if you're inside the United States, the USCIS has their own Visa Bulletin. And
right now, in the F2A category, if you're an F2A category and you're going to file for adjustment,
you can look at Final Action Dates, right here. For all other family categories,
you have to look at the Dates for Filing. So, the good news is that F2A is still current.
And you can go with the Final Action chart. It's the same, like in October, and USCIS
Visa Bulletin says there, for employment-based categories, you have to go for the Dates of Filing
categories. So again, that hasn't changed. Remember that you have to check the Visa Bulletin,
also with USCIS every month to make sure that you are adjusting your status correctly.
So, what does that mean? What does that mean for us? So, the reason we didn't have so much movement
in the family categories is because as you know, embassies are still not taking as many visas as
they should have. Many of them are still closed. There's a big backlog. And so, we
had mostly on employment-base, there was movement because of that. A lot of visas were transferred
into the employment side. And so, people were worried about retrogression in November, that
didn't happen. So, these are good news. I think that December may look a little bit different. We
may see a little bit of retrogression. Hopefully not but I think that we will, so, therefore, this
month will continue to be filing employment-based adjustments for EB3 clients, and also those that
are looking to downgrade from EB2 to EB3. So, as a whole, unfortunately, we don't have so many
good news for family petitions. But hopefully, as the year ends, we're going to start seeing
some more movement over there. I mean…[inaudible] for all of us, even us, the attorneys, we have no
clear indication as to what's going to happen. We can only predict based on what we see.
But I think December, somehow is going to look a little bit like November.
Although I am concerned that there will be… we're going to start seeing some retrogression. So, like
I said, those of you that are ready, if you're ready to file, if your cases are ready to go
for Adjustment of Status, if you're qualified or if you're considering doing your downgrade
from EB2 to EB3, it is important to make those decisions right now because we have
another month to go full blast at that. So, once again, this is… we've been anticipating that
we're going to see a few more things happening just before the elections and after the elections.
We can see that the government is going hard, after H1B visas and other things. So,
we'll see what happens. I'm going to try to make another live video just before
or on the day of the elections, next Tuesday or before,
just to kind of get you updated and let you know what's going on. So, let's see who’s here.
Thank you, guys, for the kind words. I see a lot of you, guys, are some of our regular subscribers.
See… here… So, a lot of people asking for news about the K1 visa and all that. So, I'll make a
separate live video on that. I just want to kind of come on and give you a quick update about
the Visa Bulletin. But K1 litigation is still going on. And we're hoping to be able to get
some good news in the next couple of weeks and I'm making another live video. In the meantime,
we are trying to continue to expedite cases because like I said, the Visa Bulletin didn't give
us any good news for our family petition clients. So, all we have to do is push those consulates
hard and try to get those cases expedited, we continue to advocate for our clients. So,
once again… Hey, Philis, is how are you? Anas, Shawna, Acchio, Thank you,
guys. I mean, once again, I just want to thank you all. You, guys, are the best.
This community wouldn't exist without you. And I'm making all these videos to support you and
help you kind of go through this because these are definitely crazy times for all of us. So,
once again, thank you for watching. Keep posting those comments, your questions in the comments,
and I'll answer them. And hopefully, I'll be able to give you some better news next month, when the
Visa Bulletin is going to come out. So, thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next video.