Family-based immigrant visa numbers will start moving forward at a more rapid rate!
Posted by Jeff Xie on November 05, 2002 at 14:31:02
Charles Oppenheim, Chief of the Immigrant Visa Control and Reporting Division at the State Department, has advised AILA that he expects that family-based immigrant visa numbers will start moving forward at a more rapid rate in the next few months. Because of the slow-down in INS processing since March due to IBIS checks, demand from INS has fallen off. If State Department moves the visa numbers forward more rapidly, more people who are consular processing will be able to complete the process. Mr. Oppenheim also indicates that, despite rumors to the contrary, State Dept. does not foresee a retrogression in employment-based immigrant visa numbers during the rest of fiscal 2003 or in fiscal 2004. The one caveat is that, as more "other worker" cases start to emerge from the processing pipeline, it is possible that the "other worker" subcategory could begin to backlog. Cite as "Posted on AILA InfoNet at Doc. No. 02110570 (Nov. 5, 2002) ."
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