Hey guys, we have some good news in the May, 2023 Visa bulletin. For those of you who are
in a family category and you're here in the United States and you're waiting to apply
to adjust your status so that you can get your green card here. Let's talk about the,
um, changes, the good changes that we're seeing this month in the May, 2023 Visa bulletin. U S C
I S has indicated, or in announced, I should say, that if you are looking to adjust your status,
you should look to chart B of the Visa bulletin in order to know when to apply for adjustment of
status to determine whether you're eligible for adjustment of status. Work with an immigration
lawyer, guys to see whether it can work for you, whether you meet the requirements. I've
also covered the requirements in other videos. Go check them out. I have a
side by side here of April and May, 2023. Um, just so that you could see the differences
here. The first category, which is for adult sons and daughters of US citizens. We saw that,
um, we, I see that this category has jumped ahead by a few months, which is terrific,
and uh, it's now up to January, 2017, whereas last month it was at August, 2016. So what does this
mean? It means that if your parent had filed for you before January, 2017, your priority date is
now considered current and you could apply for adjustment of status if you're here and you've
maintained a lawful status and you're eligible to do so. This jump has, uh, impacted most countries,
including China and India. However, Mexico and Philippines, those two categories remain the same.
Next we have the second preference, category F two A for spouse and children unmarried and
under 21 of green card holders. This category is still current, which is great news, and so you can
apply at any time if you meet the requirements. Third category, it's the F two B category, which
is for adult sons and daughters of green card holders. This ca there has not been any changes
unfortunately with this category F three, which is for married sons and daughters of US citizens.
There's a bit of a change here by a few months, and so the government is now up to February,
2010 for most, uh, countries. China and India included, Mexico and Philippines
unfortunately are not included in that. And so if your, um, parent filed for you before
February, 2010, your priority date is now current. Lastly, friends, the F four category for siblings
February, 2008 is now the, um, the priority date that you should look at. And so if you file before
that date, you, uh, can now adjust your status if you're eligible to do so. If you came to the
United States on a visitor's visa, let's say a visitor's visa and customs gave you six months,
six month stay in the United States, and you overstay and you're still here,
and now you're hearing me say, oh, your priority date is current based on the good news in the May,
2023 visa bulletin, that means I can apply for adjustment of status. That's not what this means,
friends. That's why it's very important for you to work with a lawyer one-on-one to determine your
eligibility. That's not what this means. For those of you who are on some other type of visa.
Let's say you came in as a student and you're still enrolled in school,
um, and or you're doing your O P T, you're still in lawful status. You've maintained that lawful
status and you're in one of these categories, you're eligible now to adjust your status, uh,
potentially work with a lawyer on that. Or if you're here on a, uh, some sort of employment
based, um, uh, visa, you are now eligible. If you're still here in lawful status,
you're eligible. But for those of you who came in just on the visitor's visa and you were
only given six months and now six months is up, you're not eligible to do adjustment of status,
not unless there's another way that the lawyer can find for you, maybe under amnesty or something
like that. Okay? So, uh, work that out with your lawyer also. Friends, before we go today, I just
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