Priority Dates

By Editorial Team , 2 July 2007

USCIS "is rejecting applications to adjust status (Form I-485)" for all non-current categories under the NEW July Visa Bulletin

As a result of the State Department updating its July 2007 Visa Bulletin on July 2, 2007, declaring all Employment-based preference categories to be unavailable, the USCIS has now announced that it "is rejecting applications to adjust status (Form I-485) filed by aliens whose priority dates are not current under the revised July Visa Bulletin." The USCIS Press Release is as follows:

By Editorial Team , 2 July 2007

State Department Announces Update to July Visa Bulletin: NO Employer Based Visa Numbers will be made available until Oct 2007

Incredibly, the U.S.

By Editorial Team , 16 December 2006

Chargeability: how to determine which country’s quota you will be counted under for green card purposes.

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.