Spillover of FB immigration visas due to visa ban under EO to EB quota

[issea 43]

Like said in the title, I haven't seen any discussion on VJ about the unused visa quota from FB categories in FY2020 to be given to EB quota in FY2021. 

It says there is an extra quota of at least 60K visas available to EB in FY2021 due to the immigration travel ban and most FB immigrants going through consular processing. 

 

I know on this forum FB immigration is the majority. Just curious what people think about the huge spillover (due to this exceptional pandemic). 

Edited August 28, 2020 by issea

[aaron2020 11,651]

Unused visas are not added to the next year's quota.  There will not be any extra visas in 2021 because of the unused visas from 2020.  

[issea 43]

13 minutes ago, aaron2020 said:

Unused visas are not added to the next year's quota.  There will not be any extra visas in 2021 because of the unused visas from 2020.  

According to INA 201(d)(1)(B), if the full quota of family-based visas is not used up in this fiscal year, then the unused numbers are added to next year’s employment-based immigration quota. Trump's EO blocked the visa issuance overseas which results in a huge amount of unused visas that will be spilled over to the employment-based immigration quota. I saw there is bill trying to prevent the spillover from FB to EB in the next fiscal year but instead keep these unused visas in FB immigration for the next fiscal year. However, I don't see it would pass in the congress. 

[issea 43]

This is the related bill I am talking about: 

 

https://meng.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/meng-immigration-amendment-passes-key-house-committee

[JeanneAdil 6,498]

48 minutes ago, issea said:

This is the related bill I am talking about: 

 

https://meng.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/meng-immigration-amendment-passes-key-house-committee

It passed House Committee

not the Senate

not the majority of house yet

and i doubt would be signed by the White House (current administration)

the dv lottery winners for this year are the real losers as they need to have visa interview and complete the process by September 30th or loose out altogether

 

https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2020-16389.pdf