The Department of State has released the September 2020 Visa Bulletin. D&S provides a Monthly Summary of the employment-based priority dates. USCIS has advised that, in September 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 August.
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 and EB-1 India will advance three weeks to March 1, 2018. With the exception of India and China, all other EB-2 countries of chargeability remain current. EB-2 China and EB-2 India will remain unchanged at January 15, 2016 and July 8, 2009, respectively. All EB-3 categories except India and China will remain unchanged at April 1, 2019, and EB-3 China and EB-3 India will remain unchanged at February 15, 2017 and October 1, 2009, respectively. All EB-5 countries of chargeability except China and Vietnam will remain current. EB-5 China will advance one week to August 15, 2015, while EB-5 Vietnam will advance by just over one week to August 1, 2017.
All Employment Based Application Filing Dates remain unchanged from the August 2020 visa bulletin.