The Department of State has released the May Visa Bulletin. D&S provides a Monthly Summary of the employment-based priority dates. USCIS has advised that, in May 2021, it will continue to accept adjustment of status applications for employment-based petitions based on the May Bulletin’s final action dates.
With respect to Final Action Dates, EB-1 China and EB-1 India will both remain current. With the exception of India and China, all other EB-2 countries of chargeability will remain current. EB-2 China will advance two and half months to December 1, 2016 and EB-2 India will advance three months to August 1, 2010. All EB-3 categories except India and China will remain current. EB-3 China will advance two months to May 15, 2018, and EB-3 India will advance five months to February 1, 2011.
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 over two months to a February 15, 2018 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 over two months to February 15, 2018.
With respect to Application Filing Dates, EB-1 China and EB-1 India will remain current. EB-2 China will move forward six months to July 1, 2017. EB-3 China will move forward one month to September 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 April.