PERM Processing Times (as of 11/30/2017)
PERM Processing Times (as of 11/30/2017)
PERM Processing Times (as of 11/30/2017)
Are you seeking to adjust your status and become a U.S. permanent resident under a family-sponsored or employment-based preference immigrant visa? If you have not yet had a relative or employer file an immigrant visa petition on your behalf, please learn more about the Adjustment of Status Filing Process.
This explains visa number usage, spillover of visa numbers into other preference categories, and the visa number backlog.
Preference Categories
The primary reasons for entering the immigration process in the U.S. are family and employment-based. To manage this process, family and employment-based immigration is broken into preference categories. Congress sets limits on how many individuals may immigrate to the U.S. each year (i.e. visa numbers) and also sets limits on how many individuals may immigrate within each preference category.
Number 20
Volume IX
Washington, D.C.
VISA BULLETIN FOR MAY 2010
A. STATUTORY NUMBERS
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