F2A

[Chia-Lyns 17]

Please can someone tell me what is really happening with F2A category. The August visa bulletin is not good for F2A..Many of us have been waiting since 2019. Now they have retrogressed to 2017.  What can I do in this case?

[Boiler 45,449]

You wait for your visa number to become current.

[Crazy Cat 41,814]

1 hour ago, Chia-Lyns said:

Please can someone tell me what is really happening with F2A category. The August visa bulletin is not good for F2A..Many of us have been waiting since 2019. Now they have retrogressed to 2017.  What can I do in this case?

Nothing you can do.  This visa category is subject to numerical limitations., and the queue is long.

[JeanneAdil 6,489]

Sometimes, a priority date that is current one month will not be current the next month, or the cut-off date will move backward to an earlier date. This is called visa retrogression, which occurs when more people apply for a visa in a particular category than there are visas available for that month. Visa retrogression generally occurs when the annual limit for a category or country has been exhausted or is expected to run out soon. When the new fiscal year begins on Oct. 1, a new supply of visa numbers becomes available. Usually, but not always, the new supply returns the cut-off dates to where they were before retrogression. 

 

https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-processes-and-procedures/visa-availability-and-priority-dates

[Mike E 11,739]

1 hour ago, Chia-Lyns said:

Please can someone tell me what is really happening with F2A category.

1. World population has reached a tipping point with respect to its impact on F2A,  EB-3, EB-2, EB-5: too many people chasing too few visas. It should improve in October, at the start of FY2024. But until there is a change to the immigration laws, these will get worse each year by summer of each year. IOW the new normal will be that F2A visa numbers will be exhausted before the end of each fiscal year. 

 

I believe the absolute number of F2A visas permitted per year was established when the U.S. had a population under 200M and Earth under 4B.

 

2. The countries among the top 5  for demand for F2A, India and China, disallow dual citizenship. So the petitioners are reluctant to  become U.S. citizens because they see better opportunities in retaining Indian or Chinese citizenship. If their ally wins the Ukraine war, we will see this reluctance accelerate. If their ally loses the war, F2A will fix itself in 1-2 years. 

1 hour ago, Chia-Lyns said:

The August visa bulletin is not good for F2A..Many of us have been waiting since 2019. Now they have retrogressed to 2017.  What can I do in this case?

The petitioner needs to become a U.S. citizen. And if 2017 date continues or retrogresses further, that will be the fastest path to visa approval.

 

Or get India and China to permit dual citizenship. “Don’t ask / don’t tell”, would be a boon.

[Lily-ice82 2]

We have same issue with my brother F2A priority date 2019. We got letter from embassy in Philippines saying we are ready to process his visa so we go ahead and do all the interview preparations they told us to do. Only to find out on the day of interview appointment that he missed the cut off date and he is in included in retrogression.I did not get a letter from embassy or NVC about this changes so they sent my brother home not being interviewed and was told to re-schedule and come back and always watch online the visa bulletin changes and wait for the priority date to be current before making visa interview appointment at the embassy.Right now month Aug they are processing priority date year 2017 below so our priority date 2019, went 3 yrs back from July 2023 since our priority date became current and we missed it, so that means very slow and waiting game again until our priority date will be current.😔😔😔

Edited August 2, 2023 by Lily-ice82

[Jvisa 4]

On 8/1/2023 at 9:12 PM, Lily-ice82 said:

We have same issue with my brother F2A priority date 2019. We got letter from embassy in Philippines saying we are ready to process his visa so we go ahead and do all the interview preparations they told us to do. Only to find out on the day of interview appointment that he missed the cut off date and he is in included in retrogression.I did not get a letter from embassy or NVC about this changes so they sent my brother home not being interviewed and was told to re-schedule and come back and always watch online the visa bulletin changes and wait for the priority date to be current before making visa interview appointment at the embassy.Right now month Aug they are processing priority date year 2017 below so our priority date 2019, went 3 yrs back from July 2023 since our priority date became current and we missed it, so that means very slow and waiting game again until our priority date will be current.😔😔😔

anyone has idea does F2A will be move forward in October?????????????

[Mike E 11,739]

5 hours ago, Jvisa said:

anyone has idea does F2A will be move forward in October?????????????

I expect forward movement. I do not expect it to go back to Current.

[Traqedfkjbv 0]

On 7/18/2023 at 12:50 PM, Chia-Lyns said:

Please can someone tell me what is really happening with F2A category. The August visa bulletin is not good for F2A..Many of us have been waiting since 2019. Now they have retrogressed to 2017.  What can I do in this case?

Pls what month in 2019 is your priority date and when did you got documentary qualified?

[carmoy2023 1]

On 8/1/2023 at 8:12 PM, Lily-ice82 said:

We have same issue with my brother F2A priority date 2019. We got letter from embassy in Philippines saying we are ready to process his visa so we go ahead and do all the interview preparations they told us to do. Only to find out on the day of interview appointment that he missed the cut off date and he is in included in retrogression.I did not get a letter from embassy or NVC about this changes so they sent my brother home not being interviewed and was told to re-schedule and come back and always watch online the visa bulletin changes and wait for the priority date to be current before making visa interview appointment at the embassy.Right now month Aug they are processing priority date year 2017 below so our priority date 2019, went 3 yrs back from July 2023 since our priority date became current and we missed it, so that means very slow and waiting game again until our priority date will be current.😔😔😔

 

 

what is your PD? for oct f2a is feb 2019