The Department of State has released the August 2020 Visa Bulletin. D&S provides a Monthly Summary of the employment-based priority dates. As of today, July 20, 2020, USCIS has not yet advised whether, in August 2020, it will once again accept adjustment of status applications for employment-based petitions based on the bulletin’s Final Action Dates, as it did in July.
With respect to Employment Based (EB) Final Action Dates, all EB-1 countries of chargeability, except India and China, will remain current. EB-1 China will advance just under six months to February 8, 2018 and EB-1 India will advance nine months, also to February 8, 2018. With the exception of India and China, all other EB-2 countries of chargeability remain current. EB-2 China will advance two months and one week to January 15, 2016, and EB-2 India will remain unchanged at July 8, 2009. All EB-3 categories except India and China will advance just under a year to April 1, 2019. EB-3 China will advance just under eight months to February 15, 2017, and EB-3 India will advance four months to October 1, 2009. All EB-5 countries of chargeability except China and Vietnam will remain current. EB-5 China will advance two weeks to August 8, 2015, while EB-5 Vietnam will advance over two months to July 22, 2017.
With respect to Employment Based Application Filing Dates, EB-1 Filing Dates for all countries of chargeability, except China and India, will remain current. EB-1 China and EB-1 India will advance eight months and eleven months respectively to July 1, 2018. Dates of filing for the EB-2 category will remain unchanged from July. With the exception of India and China, Application Filing Dates for all EB-3 countries of chargeability will advance one year to April 1, 2020. EB-3 China will advance two months to May 1, 2017 and EB-3 India will remain unchanged at February 1, 2010. Dates of filing for the EB-5 category will remain unchanged from July.