USCIS will conduct a system maintenance from Friday, July 19, 2019 starting at 9 p.m. until 11:59 p.m. (Eastern) on Sunday, July 21, 2019.
During this time you may experience technical difficulties with one of our online tools:
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Memorandum Announces a Decennial Revision Schedule
WASHINGTON — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is revising the current naturalization test with improvements to ensure it continues to serve as an accurate measure of a naturalization applicant’s civics knowledge and that it reflects best practices in adult education assessments. The goal is to create a meaningful, uniform, and efficient test that will assess applicants’ knowledge and understanding of U.S. history, government and values.
This spring, the former USCIS director signed the <a target='_blank' href="https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Office%20of%20Citizens
The Verification Division is streamlining our public contact channels. E-Verify Listens will be discontinued on July 17. We are encouraging interested parties to connect with us through our E-Verify website, on Twitter (@EVerify), and on Facebook. In addition, they can subscribe to GovDelivery to receive the latest E-Verify email updates, and text “EVERIFY UPDATES” to 468311 to get the latest E-Verify news. </
Please see September 2019 Visa Bulletin Predictions below (for both Family Based and Employment Based):
| Family- Sponsored | All Chargeability Areas Except Those Listed | CHINA-mainland born | INDIA | MEXICO | PHILIPPINES |
| F1 | 08AUG12 | 08AUG12 | 08AUG12 | 15AUG96 | 01APR08 |
| F2A | C | C | C | C | C |
| F2B | 15MAR14 | 15MAR14 | 15MAR14 | 08JUL98 | 01MAY08 |
| F3 | 01AUG07 | 01AUG07 | 01AUG07 | 08DEC95 | 15DEC97 |
| F4 | 01DEC06 | 01DEC06 | 01OCT04 | 22JAN97 | 08AUG98 |
| Family- Sponsored | All Chargeability Areas Except Those Listed | CHINA-mainland born | INDIA | MEXICO | PHILIPPINES |
| F1 | 01APR13 | 01APR13 | 01APR13 | 08DEC99 | 08SEP08 |
| F2A | 22JUL19 | 22JUL19 | 22JUL19 | 22JUL19 | 22JUL19 |
| F2B | 15SEP14 | 15SEP14 | 15SEP14 | 01APR99 | 01DEC08 |
| F3 | 01FEB08 | 01FEB08 | 01FEB08 | 08SEP00 | 01JUL98 |
| F4 | 08FEB07 | 08FEB07 | 01JUN05 | 01JAN99 | 08FEB99 |
USCIS will conduct a system maintenance on Monday, July 15, 2019 from 9 p.m. until 11:59 p.m. (Eastern).
During this time you may experience technical difficulties with one of our online tools:
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Please see below analysis of August 2019 Visa Bulletin:
| Family- Sponsored | All Chargeability Areas Except Those Listed | CHINA-mainland born | INDIA | MEXICO | PHILIPPINES |
| F1 | +3 Months 24 Days | +3 Months 24 Days | +3 Months 24 Days | No Change | +6 Months |
| F2A | No Change | No Change | No Change | No Change | No Change |
| F2B | +4 Months | +4 Months | +4 Months | +1 Month 16 Days | +3 Months |
| F3 | +3 Months 14 Days | +3 Months 14 Days | +3 Months 14 Days | +5 Months | +2 Months |
| F4 | +3 Months 16 Days | +3 Months 16 Days | +24 Days | No Change | +4 Months |
| Family- Sponsored | All Chargeability Areas Except Those Listed | CHINA-mainland born | INDIA | MEXICO | PHILIPPINES |
| F1 | +3 Months 23 Days | +3 Months 23 Days | +3 Months 23 Days | +10 Days | +3 Months 21 Days |
| F2A | +2 Months 24 Days | +2 Months 24 Days | +2 Months 24 Days | +2 Months 24 Days | +2 Months 24 Days |
| F2B | +17 Days | +17 Days | +17 Days | +1 Month 10 Days | +3 Months |
| F3 | +3 Months 14 Days | +3 Months 14 Days | +3 Months 14 Days | +7 Days | +2 Months |
| F4 | No Change | No Change | +23 Days | +7 Days | +4 Months |
Apart from posting current dates, State Department has also added special notes to Visa Bulletin mentioned above. Please see full details below:
D. ESTABLISHMENT AND RETROGRESSION OF AUGUST EMPLOYMENT-BASED FINAL ACTION DATES
There has been a steadily increasing level of Employment applicant demand since late May for adjustment of status cases filed with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and there is no indication that this increase will end. Therefore, it has been necessary to establish or retrogress many of the August Final Action Dates in an effort to hold worldwide number use within the maximum allowed under the respective FY-2019 annual limits.
The implementation of the above mentioned dates is expected to be only a temporary issue. For October, the first month of fiscal year 2020, every effort will be made to return these final action dates to those which applied for July.
E. DIVERSITY VISA LOTTERY 2020 (DV-2020) RESULTS
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