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06/27/2022
HOW LONG TO GET A FAMILY I-485 APPROVED?
June 2022 update.
- USCIS makes a decision on 50% of family I-485s eleven months after they are filed;
- 80% are processed after 16.5 months;
- 93% after 2 years and 1 month.
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04/25/2022
YOUR I-130 SERVICE CENTER DOES NOT MATTER AS MUCH AS YOU THINK
--> USCIS re-balanced I-130 workload evens out performance
California, Potomac, Texas, Vermont have very similar family I-130 performance with only Nebraska standing out. California (CSC) is not longer the dominant processor of 'preference' I-130s, and workload is now fairly evenly distributed across all 5 service centers.
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04/18/2022
Both the 'low' (50%) and 'high' (93%) of USCIS processing times for employment authorization increased in calendar year 2021 moving from 3.5 / 8 months in January to 9 / 12 months in December.
Hopefully, we are starting to see the beginning of an improvement with a 7.5 / 12 months range in April 2022.
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04/08/2022
Only 4 of the top 20 U.S. Consulates (Dhaka, Islamabad, Ho Chi Minh City, Manila) are back to pre-pandemic levels ('100%') with two more getting there (Mumbai, and Guatemala City).
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Note: This includes both immediate relatives and family preferences Green Cards. We compared the last 3 months of available data (November 2021 to January 2022) with pre-pandemic levels (last fiscal year before COVID-19, which was from October 2018 to September 2019). Results are presented for the top 20 U.S. Consulates by number of family Green Cards issued during Fiscal Year 2019.
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Source: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-statistics/immigrant-visa-statistics/monthly-immigrant-visa-issuances.html
03/23/2022
Number of Consular Green Cards / Interviews fell in January 2022. For analysis and updates, join our group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/immigrationplanner/
SUPREME COURT MAINTAINS DACA FOR NOW
The Supreme Court ruled today (Thursday) that the administration may not immediately proceed with its plan to end DACA.
Details to come.
(As reported by Adam Liptak and Michael D. Shear from the New York Times).