As the government’s Fiscal Year 2022 (“FY 2022) draws to a close this coming September 30th, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) has assured the public it is “dedicated to ensuring we use as many available employment-based visas as possible in FY 2022.” This is good news as approximately 66,500 employment-based green cards were not used in FY 2021.
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After the release of the March 2022 Adjustment of Status Filing Charts from the Visa Bulletin, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) issued an alert urging eligible adjustment of status (“AOS”) applicants to consider filing a request to transfer the underlying basis of their adjustment of status application. According to USCIS, eligible applicants should request to transfer to “the first (priority workers) or second (noncitizens in professions with advanced degrees or with exceptional ability) employment-based preference categories, because there is an exceptionally high number of employment-based immigrant visas available in these categories during this fiscal year (October 2021 through September 2022).” USCIS noted that the overall number of visas available for the first and second preference employment-based categories is almost “twice as high as usual, because that limit includes all unused family-sponsored visa numbers from fiscal year 2021, which was approximately 140,000.”
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