The Department of State has released the April Visa Bulletin. D&S provides a Monthly Summary of the employment-based priority dates. As of today, March 16, 2021, USCIS yes to confirm whether in April 2021, it will to accept adjustment of status applications for employment-based petitions based on the April Bulletin’s final action dates or application filing dates.
With respect to Final Action Dates, EB-1 China and EB-1 India will both become current. With the exception of India and China, all other EB-2 countries of chargeability will remain current. EB-2 China will advance two months to September 15, 2016 and EB-2 India will advance over three months to May 1, 2010. All EB-3 categories except India and China will remain current. EB-3 China will advance five weeks to March 15, 2018, and EB-3 India will advance two months to September 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 two months to a December 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 two months to December 22, 2017.
With respect to Application Filing Dates, EB-1 China and EB-1 India will remain current. EB-2 China will move forward three months to January 1, 2017. EB-3 China will move forward two months to August 1, 2018. All other categories (with the exception of the “Other Workers”, EB-4 special immigrants, and “Certain Religious Workers” categories) will remain unchanged from March.