The Department of State has released the March 2021 Visa Bulletin. D&S provides a Monthly Summary of the employment-based priority dates. USCIS has advised that, in March 2021, it will accept adjustment of status applications for employment-based petitions based on the March Bulletin’s final action dates.
With respect to Final Action Dates, with the exception of India and China, all other EB-1 categories will remain current. EB-1 China and EB-1 India will advance seven months to August 1, 2020. With the exception of India and China, all other EB-2 countries of chargeability will remain current. EB-2 China will advance one month to July 15, 2016 and EB-2 India will advance over three months to January 15, 2010. All EB-3 categories except India and China will remain current. EB-3 China will advance five weeks to February 8 2018, and EB-3 India will advance three months to July 1, 2010.
The EB-5 Regional Center program has been reauthorized by Congress until mid-2021. As a result, final action dates remain current for March for all countries of chargeability except for China, which remains subject to an August 15, 2015 final action date, and for Vietnam, which advances three weeks to an October 22, 2017 final action date. Final action dates for the EB-5 Non-Regional Center program remain current for all countries of chargeability except China, which will remain unchanged at August 15, 2015, and Vietnam, which will advance three weeks to October 22 , 2017.
With respect to Application Filing Dates, EB-1 China and EB-1 India will become current. All other categories (with the exception of the “Other Workers”, EB-4 special immigrants, and “Certain Religious Workers” categories) will remain unchanged from February.