Tagged #visa-bulletin
Every article we've published on this topic, sorted by the agency's own announcement date.
Visa Bulletin: Final Action Date vs Date for Filing, and When DOS Flips the DFF Toggle
What the two date charts in the monthly Visa Bulletin actually mean, when USCIS lets adjustment applicants use the Dates for Filing chart, and how DOS makes the call.
EB-2 ROW, India, and China: Priority-Date Math and Forecasting When a Date Goes Current
How the EB-2 annual cap, per-country limits, and unused-family-preference spillover combine to set the EB-2 cut-off dates for India, China, and the Rest of the World.
Reading the DOS Visa Bulletin: Family vs Employment Charts and the Country Columns
A working guide to the State Department's monthly Visa Bulletin — the family and employment charts, the country columns, and how to translate priority dates into wait estimates.
CSPA Derivative Beneficiaries: How USCIS Calculates the Child's Age Today
The Child Status Protection Act freezes a derivative beneficiary's age — but only if you run the math correctly under the 2023 USCIS policy alert that switched the trigger date.
F2A vs F2B: Aging-Out Math and CSPA's 'Sought to Acquire' Trap
Whether an LPR's unmarried child stays in F2A or converts to F2B is the single most consequential variable in many family cases. Here is the math and the one-year filing trap.
CSPA and the I-130 Derivative Beneficiary: Reading the Statute the Way USCIS Does
The Child Status Protection Act protects an I-130 derivative child from aging out — if the §203(h) formula, the 'sought to acquire' rule, and the 2023 Dates for Filing trigger all line up.
The 'Dates for Filing' Toggle: When USCIS Lets You File I-485 Off the Earlier Chart
How USCIS decides each month whether I-485 applicants may use the Visa Bulletin's Dates for Filing chart rather than Final Action Dates — and what the answer changes about EAD timing and CSPA.
Child Status Protection Act: The § 203(h)(1) Age Calculation, Step by Step
How CSPA's § 203(h)(1) formula freezes a derivative child's age — pending-petition time subtracted from age at visa availability — and the USCIS PM update that broadened it.
Managing Visa Retrogression: AC21 H-1B Extensions, CSPA Age-Outs, and Section 204(j) Porting While EB-2 India Sits at 2013
What practitioners and beneficiaries do during a multi-year priority-date wait — H-1B extensions beyond the sixth year under AC21 §§ 104(c) and 106(a), CSPA age-out calculations under INA § 203(h), I-485 portability under INA § 204(j), and reading the DOS Visa Bulletin.