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Filed: FB-4 Visa Country: India
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How long will it take for a visa to become available for my petition?

The DOS calculates the Visa Bulletin based upon the number of approved immigrant visa petitions issued by USCIS and an estimate of the number of beneficiaries that will be applying for visas based on the approved petitions. This is an imperfect system, as the DOS can only guess at how many family members will be applying for a visa along with each of the primary beneficiaries. They also do not know how many people have approved petitions but will not be applying for a visa because they are not eligible, have received a visa based on another petition, or have decided not to come to the US. This means that it is very difficult to predict how the Visa Bulletin will move and how long it will take for a visa to become available for a particular petition. Sometimes DOS will realize that they have moved the visa numbers to far ahead of where they should be and that there are not enough visas available to grant visas to all beneficiaries for the priority dates they have listed. This will result in the DOS retrogressing, or moving back, the listed priority date in the following month's Visa Bulletin. Sometimes all visas for the year in a particular category will have been used before the end of the fiscal year, which will result in a visa becoming unavailable until October when the new fiscal year starts and new visas become available.

So unfortunately there is no way to predict how long it will take for a visa to become available for your petition.

So,hopefully after 30 April dates will move very fast.......

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Filed: FB-4 Visa Country: Bangladesh
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How long will it take for a visa to become available for my petition?

The DOS calculates the Visa Bulletin based upon the number of approved immigrant visa petitions issued by USCIS and an estimate of the number of beneficiaries that will be applying for visas based on the approved petitions. This is an imperfect system, as the DOS can only guess at how many family members will be applying for a visa along with each of the primary beneficiaries. They also do not know how many people have approved petitions but will not be applying for a visa because they are not eligible, have received a visa based on another petition, or have decided not to come to the US. This means that it is very difficult to predict how the Visa Bulletin will move and how long it will take for a visa to become available for a particular petition. Sometimes DOS will realize that they have moved the visa numbers to far ahead of where they should be and that there are not enough visas available to grant visas to all beneficiaries for the priority dates they have listed. This will result in the DOS retrogressing, or moving back, the listed priority date in the following month's Visa Bulletin. Sometimes all visas for the year in a particular category will have been used before the end of the fiscal year, which will result in a visa becoming unavailable until October when the new fiscal year starts and new visas become available.

So unfortunately there is no way to predict how long it will take for a visa to become available for your petition.

So,hopefully after 30 April dates will move very fast.......

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