chances for EB2 become current in very near future.

[kumkum]

Hello Guys,

Below information regarding the cut off dates,I got from the travel.state.gov

Based on this information total number of visas available(on EB2 Category) for each employment preference
category and country for fiscal year 2011 is 11212(.i.e. for EB1 5606 and for 5606 for EB2).

Unused visa numbers can “fall-down” from E1 to E2 to E3.

Right now EB1 category is current for all countries.So as for this info 5606 visa numbers fall-down to Eb2 which will available(11212) for EB2 category.



Cumulative Demand Prior To January 1, 2011 is 10,775 which is lessthan availability.

So is there any possibility for EB2 become current in near future.

By the way my priority date is Dec-2010(EB2)

Please share your opinions.

[dealguy007]

10,775 is those who applied fro 485 in 2007 or ROW.
have you applied for 485? no ... there are 10's of thousands of EB2's waiting to file fo 485.

There is another thread that is dedicated just for this ... search for it.

[racoon786]

With the status quo, there is almost NIL chance of priority dates being current even in the next year. Yes the Oct bulletin moved EB2I by 3 months to Jul2007 which is encouraging but there are thousands of EB2I's applied since then.

Average 5K EB2I applications a year (optimistically) there would be 20K people with PDs between Aug 2007- Aug 2011. With derivates average of 2.5, that would be atleast 50K visas that need to be allocated for PD to be current for EB2I. These numbers are even gloomier for EB3I.

Only legislation, can make the dates current and as you know, most politicians are not interested in any type of "legal" immigration reform. I am encouraged by Jon Huntsman who keeps addresses the legal immigration topic into the debates.