What can I do to apply for niw scheduling in the United States?

What can I do to apply for niw scheduling in the United States? Let's talk about what we need to know if there is a timetable.

There has always been a saying that American investment immigrants will have a timetable, so American investment immigrants will have a timetable. What is the timetable for immigration to the United States? What kind of immigrants are arranged and how are the quotas allocated?

1. What is a visa announcement?

The State Council publishes the latest quota table every month. The latest quota schedule lists the quotas of various immigrants in the next month (the chart at the beginning of this article is the visa schedule of 20 15 1 given by official website, the US State Department), so that immigration officers, immigration lawyers, immigration applicants and beneficiaries can know whether there are quotas for a certain type of immigrants.

This timetable can be found on official website. In many cases, the change is not too big. Let's move forward together, but sometimes there are exceptions. For example, in August of 20 13, eb3 was greatly advanced to July of 20 10, and eb2 was still in August of 2008. Eb3 is the third category of immigrants, and eb2 is the second category, which is more popular. The average person will get a green card earlier, so many people will try their best to switch to the second category even if they are initially applied for a green card by the company according to eb3. After years of accumulation, the number of applicants for eb3 is too small. In this way, they got the green card faster than the more advanced eb2, more than two years ahead of schedule. Statistics released by the Immigration Bureau show that there were 5,784 people waiting in the eb2 team in China at that time, while there were only 460 people in the eb3 team. So many people from China ran to the EB3 team to queue up. I heard that this batch has been transferred quickly, and someone has already got a green card. So it's important to look at the timetable.

2. Why is the State Council's quota schedule needed?

The Immigration Law specifies the quotas for family-based immigrants and employment-based immigrants. There is no quota limit for citizens' spouses, underage unmarried children (under 2 1 year) and parents' immigrants, and the annual quota for other categories of relatives' immigrants does not exceed 500,000. The number of professional immigrants shall not exceed140,000 per year.

The immigration law also stipulates that the annual quota allocated to relatives or professional immigrants of various countries shall not exceed 7% of the total quota. As a result, the quota schedule of some large immigrant countries (such as China, Indian, Mexican and Philippine) has become very long.

According to the immigration law, if the available quota of five types of professional immigrant visas exceeds the number of applications, the above-mentioned "7%" provision will no longer apply. In this way, when the application is pending only because of quota restrictions in various countries, quotas can still be fully utilized.

The quota table shows the quotas of professional immigrants and relatives immigrants, and lists which countries have more visa quotas than quotas (oversubscription), so the immigrant visa application in this country needs to wait for quotas.

3. What do you mean by "current"?

If there is a current quota for a certain type of immigrants, that is, overseas consulates can issue visas immediately or beneficiaries can adjust their status in the United States, the form should be marked with "C" accordingly; If there is no quota (unavailable) for a certain type of immigrants, it is indicated by "U" in the table. If a certain type of immigrants oversubscribe the quota, a deadline will be marked in the corresponding position in the quota list, such as15arp94 (1994aApril15). If the applicant's priority date is before this date, you can start to arrange interviews with overseas consulates or apply for identity adjustment; If the applicant's priority date is after this date, he must continue to wait for the quota.

What is the priority date?

Priority date refers to the immigration application received by the immigration bureau from relatives (I-130); The date of application for professional immigration (I- 140) or work PERMit (perm) is the date in the column of "priority date" in the I-797 endorsement notice issued by the Immigration Bureau after the application is approved. Don't think that the deadline in the quota table will be advanced every month, because whether this date is advanced or not is determined by the number of applications received by the immigration bureau in a certain period of time. If the number of applications received by the Immigration Bureau in a certain period of time is too large, then the date may be only slightly advanced (for example, one or two weeks), unchanged (the same as last month), or even retrogressed. On the contrary, it is possible to make great progress (ranging from a few months to more than ten months).

5. Who are the immigrants in the quota table?

1. Family migration

Kinship immigrants can be divided into immediate relatives and priority relatives.

Close relatives are subdivided into five categories, namely:

IR- 1: spouse of an American citizen

IR-2: Unmarried children (including biological and stepchildren) of American citizens under 2/kloc-0.

IR-3: Orphans adopted overseas by American citizens.

IR-4: Orphan adopted by American citizens.

IR-5: Parents of American citizens

There are no quota restrictions on the above categories of immigrants. After the approval of the Immigration Bureau, they can directly interview overseas consulates or adjust their status in the United States.

Close relatives are subdivided into five subcategories, namely:

First priority (F- 1):2 1 unmarried children of American citizens over the age of.

The second priority category A (F-2A): American permanent resident spouse or unmarried children under 2 1 year old.

The second priority category B (F-2B): unmarried children over 2 1 year old who are permanent residents of the United States.

Third Priority (F-3): Married children of American citizens.

Fourth priority (F-4): Brothers and sisters of American citizens.

These types of immigrants are subject to quota restrictions. After the approval of the Immigration Bureau, they must wait until the quota is discharged before they can interview overseas consulates or adjust their status in the United States. The following figure shows the relative immigration visa schedule given by official website of the State Council in 20 15/month (for example, F4, that is, the schedule of American citizens' brothers and sisters in China is only March 20 1 2, while the schedule of China spouse or unmarried children under 2 1 F2A who are permanent American residents is already 201month.

2. Professional immigrants

According to the priority order, professional immigrants are divided into five categories and twelve subcategories, namely:

The first priority class A (EB- 1A): outstanding talents in special fields.

The first priority class B (EB- 1B): excellent professors or researchers.

The second priority category A (EB-2A): highly educated professionals.

Second priority category B (EB-2B): professionals with special abilities.

Second Priority Special Category (NIW): National Interest Immunity

Third Priority Category A (EB-3A): Professionals

Third priority category B (EB-3B): technicians

Third priority category C (EB-3C): non-technical personnel

The third priority category (Exhibit A) is the chronic shortage of jobs in the United States. (such as physiotherapists, registered nurses, outstanding scientists, etc.). )

Fourth priority EB-4: special population (religious workers)

Fifth priority EB-5: investment immigration

These types of immigrants are subject to quota restrictions. After the approval of the Immigration Bureau, they must wait until the quota is discharged before they can interview overseas consulates or adjust their status in the United States. However, because the number of applications with the first, fourth and fifth priorities is usually small, the quota table usually shows a quota "C". For example, in the timetable of 20 15 and 1 at the top of this paper, the fifth category of investment immigrants currently shows the number of China citizens, while the second category of highly educated professionals has just been arranged for China citizens until March 20 10.