Chargeability

What chargeability means. Chargeability is the rule that decides which country’s annual allotment of immigrant visas your case is counted against. Most green card categories are capped twice over, once worldwide and again for each individual country, so the chargeability area assigned to you is what determines which queue you stand in and how long that queue is. The governing provisions are 8 U.S.C. § 1152 and the Department of State regulation that implements it, 22 C.F.R. § 42.12.