The Department of State has released the August Visa Bulletin. D&S provides a Monthly Summary of the employment-based priority dates. USCIS has advised that, in August 2021, it will continue to accept adjustment of status applications for employment-based petitions based on 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 four months to April 1, 2018 and EB-2 India will remain at June 1, 2011. All EB-3 categories except India and China will remain current. EB-3 China will advance one week to January 8, 2019, and EB-3 India will advance over seven months to July 1, 2013.
The EB-5 Regional Center program has not been reauthorized by Congress. As a result, this category will not be available for July 2021. Final action dates for the EB-5 Non-Regional Center program remain current for all countries of chargeability except China, which will retrogress two days to November 15, 2015, and Vietnam, which will become current.
With respect to Application Filing Dates, all categories will remain unchanged from July.