USCIS said current dates based on quarterly visa availability and there will be movement of the date throughout the year. But by how much is anyone’s guess. It really depends on how many people are porting from EB2 to EB1. There are lot of them in EB2 trying to change queue. I am hopeful that FAD will move to 2019 by end of the year.

@Jay M Yes it depends on how many folks porting from EB2 to EB1. For instance there could be EB2 folks whose PD is 2013 or even late 2012 who might file and get approved in EB1 A or B or C. If that happens more and more then in that case date movement would be tight.

@Jay M - did USCIS release any pending cases that ported from EB2 to EB1 ? there might be significant for India since they moved back to 2017 Otherwise it might have been current :-(

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@my moto There seems to be a substantial number of EB1 applicants ported from EB2 and more and more people are perhaps trying to port from EB2 to EB1 whose dates are in 2012-2017 range.

@S SS - I guess there is no policy change recently on porting and can see steady movement for EB2 India … not sure why all sudden this porting happen this year where it was not there previous years when EB1 PD is current. don’t understand this trend

@my moto My assessment is, EB2 people whose priority dates are 2012 or 2013 and in that vicinity have became very senior and probably are commanding very high salaries which only top 5% of folks command in their field. A few of those might have gone on to become critical employees in their research organizations like Senior Fellow etc Some might have become authors of best selling books of importance in their field, some might have collaborated with Nobel laureates or Nobel nominated folks, or some might have started collaborating with Fields Medalists or started collaborating with Turing Awardees and publishing papers in high impact journals or critical importance and have accrued high citation counts - important researchers might have cited their research papers etc. People can do extraordinary achievement at any age not necessarily at very young age. So I guess now these EB2 folks are getting ready to file in EB1 A or B and some have already filed and got approved. This I think will continue to happen unless country quota is increased. This is my assessment.

@S SS majority of eb1 applications are eb1c applications, followed by very few eb1a and very very few eb1b. the people are porting just be getting a small elevation in their role. you don’t even have to have reportees. you can be functional manager. what you said is valid but for few people only. eb1c is misused by a few but there are genuine cases as well.

I agreed there will be few eb1a & uscis scrutinizing eb1a application before approval as its two step assessment but eb1c is no more scrutinizing . on the top of it , eb1c i140 got premiums processing approved which eventually started causing eb1 india dates retrogression causing Lot of delays . most of them are consulting companies