| IMMIGRATIONNEWS
Year 39, No.28 June 19 - 25
July 2009
priority dates
Petitions by citizens:
The priority date for the First Preference Category, F-1 (unmarried sons and daughters of U.S. citizens over 21 years of age) remained the same at Sept. 1, 1993.
The Third Preference Category, F-3 (married sons and daughters of U.S. citizens) priority date remained the same at July 1, 1991.
The Fourth Preference, F-4 (brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens) priority date moved forward by seven days from Aug. 1, 1986 to Aug. 8, 1986.
Petitions by green card holders:
The Second Preference, F-2A (spouse and minor children below 21 years old of green card holders) moved forward by seven days from Dec. 15, 2004, to Dec. 22, 2004.
The Second Preference, F-2B (unmarried sons and daughters over 21 years of age of green card holders) remained the same at April 1, 1998.
Petitions by employers:
The Third Preference (professionals and skilled workers) of Employment-Based Petitions (Labor Certification) remains unavailable. The priority date for unskilled (other) workers also remains unavailable.
Each month, the Visa Office of the State Department publishes the priority dates for that particular month. This means that visas (or green cards) would now be available for persons whose priority date is earlier than the cut-off date. If your priority date was "current," but retrogressed (or became "unavailable") before your immigrant visa was issued (or before you adjusted status in the U.S.), you would have to wait until it becomes current again.
| (Editor's note:
Michael J. Gurfinkel has been an attorney for over 27 years, and is an active member of the State Bar of California and New York, as well as the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the Immigration Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. He has always excelled in school: valedictorian in high school; cumlaude at UCLA; and law degree honors and academic scholar at Loyola Law School, which is one of the top law schools in California. Website: www.gurfinkel.com
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