Foreword: " EB-5 investment immigration applicants who have long suffered from stagnant waiting lists have finally made a comeback: Starting from December 2021, the EB-5 direct investment project schedules A and B will be cancelled!
Not long ago The U.S. Department of State released the July 2022 scheduling allocation : Among employment-based immigrants, only EB-2 Table A and Table B have moved forward for one month each, and EB-3 has once again stalled in both tables; what is exciting is After being stagnant for more than two years due to the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, the schedule for Form B has finally moved!
Let’s take a look at the specific schedule allocation for July with the editor~ You need to pay attention to employment immigration in July. Category Immigration Bureau Form B is not open for use, only relative immigration Form B can be used.
Employment Immigration
EB-1
EB-1 has been canceled for applicants born in mainland China, and the State Council Form A is not scheduled again in July allocation. Applicants applying for this category can submit I-140 and I-485 applications at the same time. There is no schedule for
EB-1 form B. Therefore, EB-1 is the fastest among all employment-based immigration application categories to obtain a green card. application category.
In addition, starting from June 1, EB-1C, which was originally unable to apply for PP expedited service under the EB-1 category, can also submit PP expedited service if certain applications meet special conditions:
EB-1C applications submitted to the Immigration Bureau on or before January 1, 2021 can apply for PP expedited service starting from June 1, 2022; EB-1C applications submitted to the Immigration Bureau on or before March 1, 2021 1C application can apply for PP urgent service starting from July 2022;
Immigration Bureau will not accept the newly submitted EB-1C urgent application. 6 EB-2 B-2 It moved forward significantly in the first month, then slowed down in the next few months, leading to stagnation. Finally, we saw EB-2 moving forward in the July schedule: EB-2 table A schedule One month forward, the scheduling is on April 1, 2019, and the table B scheduling is also forward one month on May 1, 2019. The Immigration Bureau’s employment-based immigration Form B was not opened in July. EB-3 EB-3 has been miserable for several months. The EB-3 Form A stagnated in the scheduling in October last year. The EB-3 Form A scheduling in November dropped significantly by 292 days, and the scheduling returned to 2018. On March 22, the Schedule B schedule also moved back significantly by 289 days, returning to April 1, 2018. The EB-3 schedule remained unchanged for several months. In the July schedule, EB-3 Table A and Table B again stagnated without any changes. They did not retreat again and did not return to the level before the retreat. . It can only be said that this year EB-3 has really caught up with the worst situation. The State Council and the Immigration Service have worked hard to allocate unused family-based immigration green card quotas during the fiscal year to employment-based immigrants. However, this good news only applies to EB-1 and EB-2, officials estimate that the number of green cards that can be used for EB-1 and EB-2 in fiscal year 2022 is approximately twice that of normal years.
U.S. immigration laws stipulate that every year, the unused green card quota of EB-5 investment immigrants will be allocated to EB-1 again. The unused green card quota of EB-1 will be automatically allocated to EB-2 for use. EB-2 The exhausted quota will be allocated to EB-3. However, since there are too many applications waiting for EB-2 to be scheduled, it is theoretically unlikely that EB-2 will not be exhausted. Therefore, even if the employment-based immigration green card is available in the past two years, There are many quotas, but it is difficult to benefit from EB-3.
Even though U.S. immigration laws have clear regulations on the number of U.S. green cards that can be allocated to each U.S. green card category each year, the total number of U.S. green cards that each country can receive each year cannot exceed 7% of the overall U.S. green card quota, but there is a very important exception:
If The rest of the world cannot use up their 7% quota of U.S. Green Cards. Countries with a demand higher than 7% will be allocated more U.S. Green Cards. Countries with larger applications will be allocated more additional U.S. Green Cards. India, as the largest applicant for employment-based green cards in the United States, is of course allocated more additional quotas, which makes the waiting list of India, a large applicant with a long-standing queue, continue to advance.
Therefore, in the July schedule, EB-2 from neighboring India is once again advancing faster than Chinese applicants.
EB-5
EB-5 investment immigration applicants who have long suffered from stagnant waiting lists have finally made a big comeback: starting from December 2021, the waiting lists for EB-5 direct investment projects Form A and Form B will be cancelled! However, at that time, this benefit was only available to applicants for direct investment projects (5thNon-RegionalCenterC5andT5), and the scheduling restrictions for regional center project applicants have not changed.
Affected by the "Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022", the EB-5 Regional Center was once again authorized to resume scheduling in May this year. At the same time, three new categories have emerged, namely rural areas, high unemployment areas and basic Facility projects.
html The schedule for direct investment projects C5 and T5 in 46 months has appeared again! Therefore, the EB-5 investment immigration Unreserved, that is, the scheduling for direct investment projects and regional center projects before the reform is: table A is scheduled for November 22, 2015, and table B is scheduled for December 22, 2015. SetAside, corresponding to the three Reserved categories appearing in the new bill, has no schedule.
Relative Immigration
In the relative immigration in July 2022, all categories of Table A were once again completely stagnant, but Table B was finally moved!
F-1
For the category of unmarried children of citizens over the age of 21, the schedule for Form A has stopped at December 1, 2014, and the schedule for Form B has moved forward 47 days to July 1, 2016.
F2A
For the spouses and children of U.S. green card holders, there is no schedule for Form A again. Applicants who apply in July can submit the I-130 and I-485 forms at the same time. The schedule for Form B starts in April 2022. Has become unscheduled.
F2B
For the category of unmarried children over 21 years old of U.S. green card holders, the schedule of Table A has not changed and stayed on September 22, 2015. The schedule of Table B has moved forward 9 days to October 1, 2016.
F3
For the category of married children of U.S. citizens, the schedule of Table A is stuck on November 22, 2008, and the schedule of Table B is advanced 40 days to October 1, 2009.
F4
For the category of adult citizen brothers and sisters, the schedule for Table A is stuck on March 22, 2007, and the schedule for Table B is advanced 38 days to November 8, 2007.
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