Wednesday, March 5, 2014

April 2014 Demand Data

April 2014 Demand Data should be published soon. Demand data is used by DOS to calculate the monthly visa bulletin dates. If you are not familiar with demand data, please see this article: What is Demand Data?

There should not be any major changes in the April 2014 Demand Data.

EB2 India: As many of you know, due to huge demand from EB3 India porting to EB2 India, USCIS had to stop allocating visas to EB2 India category from November 20, 2013.  The demand data should include these porting cases, if they have been preadjudicated.

Currently the cases are been counted twice in both EB3 and EB2 category (since they do not have a system to accurately track various porting cases). Please see article.

EB3 ROW: The full demand for EB3 ROW/Mexico/China should start showing up in the next I-485 pending inventory. However since VB dates keep moving forward and visa is available, not all cases would appear in this demand data. This is because demand data only contains preadjudicated cases (and CP cases).

Currently it takes about 4+ months to process I-485 and preadjudicate case. Hence demand data for these categories could appear to be low, though dates have moved by 3+ years.

Tip: Once demand data is released (or in case DOS does not release demand data this month), you can use the Find Hidden Visa Bulletin tool to locate the April 2014 Visa Bulletin before it is released to general public.


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8 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 5, 2014 at 1:04 AM

    This is copy pasted from the last articles. Amazon, can you please share your opinion around the latest i485 pending inventory? Thanks

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    1. AmazonMarch 11, 2014 at 10:55 PM

      You havent mentioned specific category/country. I have covered few of them in the April 2014 Visa Bulletin Analysis blog post.

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  2. AnonymousMarch 10, 2014 at 6:24 PM

    Hi Amazon, EB3 Philippines moved 6 weeks for April 2014. Will it continue to move at this pacing?

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    1. AmazonMarch 11, 2014 at 10:56 PM

      I will update the original blog post for EB3 Philippines. It should continue to move forward faster in the next few months.

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  3. AnonymousMarch 10, 2014 at 8:07 PM

    Yes amazon, pls. Gv as an i sight about this....we're waiting for the 2007 to be finished this fiscal year.

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  4. AmazonMarch 11, 2014 at 10:59 PM

    It is still possible for EB3 Philippines to have big jump in next few months, I will update the original blog post.

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  5. hossainMay 21, 2014 at 9:03 PM

    Hi amazon ... My us citizen sister aplay for my brother family to immigrant USA.. F3 catagory. Now my brother can applay for visit visa for USA .. Any problem ???for immigrant visa...

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  6. UnknownAugust 15, 2014 at 9:14 AM

    Hi all the f2a moves 8 months in september visa bullitin...amazon can we see further movement in cming mnths....my pd is 8 oct 2013..when can i expect it to be current..

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