• USCIS has announced that it will accept employment-based adjustment of status applications with priority dates that are earlier than the Dates for Filing listed in the Department of State’s October Visa Bulletin.
• The EB-2 India Date for Filing will retrogress by over two years, to May 1, 2012.
• The EB-2 China Date for Filing will advance more than two months, to July 8, 2019.
• The Dates for Filing for EB-3 Professionals and Skilled Workers for China and India will advance to July 15, 2018 and July 1, 2012, respectively.
• The Dates for Filing will remain current for EB-1, and for all countries in the EB-2 and EB-3 Professionals and Skilled Workers categories, other than China and India.
• The Date for Filing for the EB-5 Unreserved category for China will remain at January 1, 2016, and India will have a Date for Filing cut-off imposed of December 8, 2019. The Dates for Filing will remain current for all other countries in the EB-5 Unreserved categories, and for all countries in the EB-5 “Set-Aside” categories.

In October, USCIS will shift to accepting adjustment of status applications based on the monthly Visa Bulletin’s Dates for Filing Chart, rather than the Final Action Dates Chart. This action was expected, because October 2022 marks the start of Fiscal Year 2023, and it is a common practice for USCIS to accept employment-based adjustment of status applications based on the typically more generous Dates for Filing Chart at the beginning of the fiscal year, when the annual...

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