June 2008 Visa Bulletin // Discussion and Comments
UPDATE – Monday, May 12th — The June Visa Bulletin was published by the State Department. Thanks to Justin for the heads up.
June 2008 // Employment-Based Visa Bulletin:
June 2008 // Family-Based Visa Bulletin:
Source: state.gov
UPDATE – Friday, May 9th — Still no official June visa bulletin. As usual, the Mumbai Consulate has posted expected dates for the visa bulletin, see http://mumbai.usconsulate.gov/cut_off_dates.html (thanks KY).
Update – Thursday, May 8th — I haven’t seen any commentary from State Department officials about predictions for the June visa bulletin. So the next best thing is the notes from the May visa bulletin, which discuss employment-based visa availability:
E. EMPLOYMENT VISA AVAILABILITY
Many of the Employment cut-off dates have continued to advance more rapidly than might ordinarily be expected. This is a result of consultations with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) regarding their pending demand, which is currently using approximately 90% of all Employment numbers. USCIS has indicated that they would prefer to review a substantial number of cases at this time to ensure that number use in the various categories can be maximized. Should USCIS projections of the resulting number use prove to be incorrect it may be necessary to adjust the cut-off dates during the final quarter of FY-2008.
What does that mean? I think it means visa numbers could retrogress or even become unavailable in the June/July/August/September visa bulletins.
Stay posted for the June visa bulletin, and feel free to drop your comments below.
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