The Department of State has released the February 2020 Visa Bulletin. D&S provides a Monthly Summary of the employment-based priority dates. As of today, January 22, 2020, USCIS has not yet advised whether, in February 2020, it will once again accept adjustment of status applications for both employment-based and family-based petitions based on the February Bulletin’s application filing dates, as it has for most categories for the past few months.
With respect to Final Action Dates, all EB-1 countries of chargeability, except India and China, will advance two months to December 1, 2018. EB-1 China and EB-1 India will remain unchanged at May 22, 2017 and January 1, 2015 respectively. With the exception of India and China, all other EB-2 countries of chargeability remain current. EB-2 China will advance two weeks to July 15, 2015, and EB-2 India will advance by just one day to May 19, 2009. EB-3 China will advance one month to January 1, 2016, EB-3 India will advance one week to January 8, 2009, and EB-3 Philippines will advance two and a half months to June 1, 2018. All other EB-3 countries of chargeability will remain current.
In December 2019, President Trump signed a law extending the EB-5 Regional Center Program through September 30, 2020. As such, EB-5 Non-Regional Center and EB-5 Regional Center final action dates are current with the exception of China, India and Vietnam. EB-5 China is backlogged at December 1, 2014, EB-5 India at September 1, 2018, and EB-5 Vietnam at December 15, 2016.
Application Filing Dates will remain unchanged from January 2020.