what does priority date mean in the big picture?

[juana17 1]

Hi we are waiting to get an interview date, I am sooooo hopeful for an august date ( we are Cr1) I got an email response finally to an email I had sent asking about the completion, and this time when I looked at our "priority date" of 21JAN2009 I wondered what other folks dates were and how we were fairing....

[pushbrk 12,877]

Hi we are waiting to get an interview date, I am sooooo hopeful for an august date ( we are Cr1) I got an email response finally to an email I had sent asking about the completion, and this time when I looked at our "priority date" of 21JAN2009 I wondered what other folks dates were and how we were fairing....

For a spouse of a US Citizen, the priority date is just the date your case got into the system. For others, it's used to determine when a visa becomes available.