Key Highlights of April 2023 Visa Bulletin

The DOS recently released the April 2023 Visa Bulletin. The new bulletin, in addition to final action dates and filing dates, contains notes on EB-2 retrogression, final action date for F2A, EB-4 retrogression, and more.

USCIS determined that applicants in all family-sponsored preference categories must use the Dates for Filing chart, and applicants in all employment-based preference categories must use the Final Action Dates chart.

The main highlights:

1. Next month, EB-1 India and China will maintain their Final Action cutoff date of February 1, 2022.
2. The EB-2 Worldwide Final Action date will retrogress by four months, to July 1, 2022.
3. The EB-2 India, Final Action date, will retrogress by eight months, to January 1, 2011, and the EB-2 China, Final Action date, will remain June 8, 2019.
4. The EB-3 India Professional/Skilled Worker Final Action date will remain at June 15, 2012, and the EB-3 China, Professional/Skilled Worker category will advance by three months to November 1, 2018