The Department of State has released the May 2020 Visa Bulletin. D&S provides a Monthly Summary of the employment-based priority dates. USCIS has advised that in May 2020, it will once again accept adjustment of status applications for employment-based petitions based on the May Bulletin’s final action dates, as it did in April. For family based petitions, adjustment of status applications will be accepted based on dates of filing, except for the F2A category, which will be based on final action dates.
With respect to Employment Based (EB) Final Action Dates, all EB-1 countries of chargeability, except India and China, will become current. EB-1 China will advance five weeks to July 15, 2017 and EB-1 India will advance three months to August 1, 2015. With the exception of India and China, all other EB-2 countries of chargeability remain current. EB-2 China will advance one month to October 1, 2015, and EB-2 India will advance one week to June 2, 2009. All EB-3 categories except India and China will remain unchanged at January 1, 2017. EB-3 China will advance one month to May 15, 2016, and EB-3 India will advance over a month to March 1, 2009.
EB-5 Non-Regional Center and EB-5 Regional Center Final Action Dates remain current with the exception of China, India, and Vietnam. EB-5 China will advance one and a half months to July 1, 2015, while EB-5 India will advance nine months to October 1, 2019, and EB-5 Vietnam will advance over a month and a half to April 1, 2017.
With respect to Employment Based (EB) Application Filing Dates, dates for EB-1, EB-2 and EB-5 categories remain unchanged from April. Filing dates for all EB-3 countries of chargeability, except India and China, will advance three months to April 1, 2019. EB-3 China and India will remain unchanged at March 1, 2017 and February 1, 2010, respectively.