News & Analysis as of August 15, 2025

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The March 2025 Visa Bulletin Shows Continues Marching Forward for EB-2 and EB-3 Categories

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 2/14/2025

The Visa Bulletin for March 2025 shows continued forward movement in the priority dates for most EB-2 and EB-3 categories....more

Promise Kept? USCIS Showing Signs of Improving Immigration Processing Times

Fisher Phillips on 10/19/2022

Earlier this year, federal immigration officials announced concrete measures to reduce the massive backlog of petitions and applications currently pending at the agency’s National Service Centers – but has this promise been...more

Employment-Based Preference Visa: Transfer Underlying Basis for Pending Green Card Application

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 1/25/2022

For the first time, USCIS has advised people with a pending green card application of its documentary requirements for transfers between employment-based classifications and issued an alert regarding the process...more

Great News For Green Card Seekers!

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP on 8/26/2021

Congress has mandated that in a given calendar year, 140,000 employment-based green cards will be awarded to companies sponsoring foreign nationals for permanent employment in the United States. This mandate is effective on...more

Department of State and Department of Homeland Security Announce a Major Change to the Visa Bulletin

Franczek P.C. on 9/14/2015

On September 9, 2015, the Department of State and Department of Homeland Security, acting through United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, announced that they were significantly revising Visa Bulletin procedures....more

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