Matt B
Mar 20, 2024
Backlog
I had posted here that in the last fiscal year, EB3-Unskilled visas were issued as follows:
Vietnam - 2,280
Mexico - 1,682
Well, I come with worse news, in the first 3 months of this year, the following visas have already been issued:
Vietnam - 911
Mexico - 670
Philippines - 520
Don't expect the retrogression to end and don't think that immigration is intentionally creating a backlog. Maybe they do it intentionally because they know that a country cannot exceed the 7% cap. If the law really worked, we wouldn't be in this backlog; they just need to want the law to work
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Th NgMar 21, 2024
@Matt B At my work, I see lots of Vietnamese people did Consular Processing from Vietnam to here. All of them are a family with at least 3 dependent which means 1 case could take up 4 GC slots and I see around 4-5 Vietnamese family come here, their PD is around 2018. The consular processing cases must be the reason for our backlogs.
visa guyApr 9, 2024
the current waiting list for eb3 unskilled at NVC, as of nov 1st 2023, is as follows
Mexico - 8,173
Philippines - 5,892
Vietnam - 4,911
China (mainland born) - 4,467
Bangladesh - 3,064
All Others ("ROW") - 17,963
this is consular processing cases only, for a real estimate of the number of people in the green card queue, you'd need to add in the number of pending adjustment of status cases at USCIS as well
