The Department of State has released the December 2019 Visa Bulletin. D&S provides a Monthly Summary of the employment-based priority dates. As of today, November 20, 2019, USCIS has not yet advised whether, in December 2019, it will once again accept adjustment of status applications for both employment-based and family-based petitions based on the December Bulletin’s application filing dates, as it has for the past two months.
With respect to Final Action Dates, all EB-1 countries of chargeability, except India and China, will advance one and a half months to July 15, 2018. EB-1 China will progress three and a half months to May 15, 2017, and EB-1 India will remain unchanged at January 1, 2015. With the exception of India and China, all other EB-2 countries of chargeability remain current. EB-2 China will advance three months and a week to June 22, 2015, and EB-2 India will advance by only 2 days to May 15, 2009. All EB-3 countries of chargeability besides India, China, and the Philippines remain current. EB-3 China and India will remain unchanged at November 1, 2015 and January 1, 2009 respectively, while EB-3 Philippines will progress one month to March 1, 2018.
With respect to Application Filing Dates, all EB-1 countries of chargeability besides India and China will become current. EB-1 China and India will remain unchanged at September 1, 2017 and March 15, 2017 respectively. All EB-2 and EB-3 categories will remain unchanged from November.
The EB-5 Regional Center program is set to expire on November 21, 2019. Final action dates for this category have been listed as “Unavailable” for December. The final action dates for the EB-5 Non-Regional Center program, which will not be affected, will remain current with the exception of China, India, and Vietnam. EB-5 China will advance to November 15, 2014, while EB-5 India will advance to January 1, 2018, and EB-5 Vietnam will advance to December 1, 2016. If there is legislative action extending the categories for FY2020, the final action dates for the EB-5 Regional Center program would immediately become “Current” for December for all countries, except China, India, and Vietnam, which would match the Non-Regional Center dates. The EB-5 filing dates for all countries remain current, with the exception of EB-5 China, which will advance to May 15, 2015.