Form I-140 Blog Entries

Fiscal Year 2023 Employment-Based Adjustment of Status FAQs USCIS

Fiscal Year 2023 Employment-Based Adjustment of Status FAQs from USCIS

The employment-based (EB) annual limit for fiscal year (FY) 2023 will be higher than was typical before the pandemic, though lower than in FY 2021 and FY 2022. We are dedicated to ensuring we use as many available employment-based visas as possible in FY 2023, which ends on Sept. 30, 2023.

Adjustment of status, transferring the basis of I-485 clarifications

September 9, 2022:

Important FAQ from the USCIS about what to expect during this fiscal year #immigration

https://www.immigration.com/blogs/fiscal-year-2023-employment-based-adj…

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On January 21, 2022, USCIS published the following information on its website, which we have edited to provide clarifying remarks:

Green Card Through PERM, Part 1, The PERM Process

1 Green Card through PERM, Step 1 - The PERM process

    1.1 Preliminary points

        1.1.1 Most commonly used process and is based upon a permanent, full-time job offer

        1.1.2 Involves testing the labor market for a defined job

        1.1.3 Green card is for a "future job"

        1.1.4 Employment-based categories 2 and 3 (EB-2, EB-3)

Green Card Through Consular processing - Experience of a Community Member

My I-140 was filed in February 2004. The National Visa Centre, in its letter dated 24th June 2010, informed that they had completed processing of my petition seeking immigration to the USA and had forwarded it to the American Embassy/Consulate at New Delhi. I was informed that an immigrant visa interview had been scheduled at the US Consulate, New Delhi on the 9th of August, 2010 at 10.45 am.