F1 case complete and waiting for visa # availability

[cast2006 5]

vb is finally out.. cut off for f1 is August 1st

[sunny654 4]

vb is finally out.. cut off for f1 is August 1st

Congrats....not bad...I hope Sept/12 VB will be big jump....Coz Mexico and Philiph(Retrogress) stop F-1 category .....so Let C wht Happen....Gud Luck

[simisyed 0]

What can we expect in coming visa bulletins?

[NevermindVz 51]

vb is finally out.. cut off for f1 is August 1st

Yes!

Congrats to Zeldavn and Mr.Longawaiting1 !

[MR. LONGAWAITING1 1]

What was your pd?

30JUN2012

[RICARDO4EVA2 194]

thanks...yeah i posted my date last month

welll good. welcome

congrats to all others

[simisyed 0]

Good to have 3 weeks movement this time.I wish & hope it continues to move in the same pace.

[loudoff 25]

You guys, we need to send this petition to President Obama and senators to oppose H.R. 3012. This bill will increase the numbers of visa per country from 7% to 15% and if it becomes a law, the result is the longer wait time for ROW chargeability for both employment and family-based immigration petition. I did send the petition and I really need you guys to do the same. We have been waiting for so so long and I am tired of waiting already. Please!!!!

http://www.petition2congress.com/5677/oppose-hr-3012-its-companions-1857/

[hsinh 1]

I wanted to let you know about a new petition I created on We the People,

a new feature on WhiteHouse.gov, and ask for your support. Will you add your

name to mine? If this petition gets 25,000 signatures by August 12, 2012,

the White House will review it and respond!

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/oppose-passage-hr-3012-fairness-high-skilled-immigrants-act/gD52rqxN?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl

Oppose passage of HR 3012 – The Fairness for High-Skilled

Immigrants Act.

This bill will increase the numbers of visa per country from 7% to 15% and if it becomes a law, the result is the longer wait time for ROW chargeability for both employment and family-based immigration petition.

[loudoff 25]

thanks Minh. Great!

[Kodiak 12]

This bill will increase the numbers of visa per country from 7% to 15% and if it becomes a law, the result is the longer wait time for ROW chargeability for both employment and family-based immigration petition.

Can you guys explain how this bill going into law would affect family based petitions? It seems to me that it only affects employment based visas.

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-784568

[loudoff 25]

Go to below website, it briefly talked about this bill. It had been on hold by Senator Grassley (R-IA) since the end of last year while he edited some wordings of the bill. He now lifted the hold and it will be moved to Senate for vote. If it passes it will eliminate the annual per country cap for employment based petition and increase the numbers of annual visas from 7% to 15% for family based petition but there is no increase of annual visa numbers which results in longer wait time for visa applicants of the rest of the world(ROWers) and this bill will help the backlog for Mexico and Philippines visa applicants at the expenses of ROWers. For example, each year F1 category provided with 23,400 visas but single country only allows 7% which is 1,638 visas. However, Mexico and Philippines have more than 1,638 visa applicants each year that causes the movement of cut-off date to move slowly because they are oversubscribed the visa numbers that is the reason why they have their own cut-off-dates. If this bill passes or becomes a law which will increase 7% to 15% meaning a single country will receive 3,510 instead of 1,638 visa numbers each years but the total annual visa numbers for F1 category will still be the same which is 23,400 results in slower movement in ROWers, india and China. This bill will result in the longer wait time for F1, F2A, F2B, F3 and F4 the rest of the world chargeability the visa applicants as well as India and China. Who will benefit most from this bill? The answer is EB2, EB3 India and China employment based visa applicants and Mexico as well as China family based visa applicants

http://www.aila.org/...spx?docid=37451

Edited July 13, 2012 by loudoff

[hsinh 1]

@loudoff; you are right !!!! 100%

[loudoff 25]

Thanks!!! hsinh

[loudoff 25]

Sorry!!, one correction on Philippines instead of China, "......Who will benefit most from this bill? The answer is EB2, EB3 India and China employment based visa applicants and Mexico as well as Philippines family based visa applicants"

Edited July 14, 2012 by loudoff