
zaback21
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There won't be a movement for the next 10-20 years if DR is part of the RoW. There's a reason why F2B has had no PD or Filing date movement after 2 years even when all other categories did. I would rather have 2 countries taking 7% each and leaving the rest 86% behind over one country taking 40-50%+. Here's the thing. We are now not in pandemic situation where we are struggling to fill up 226,000 yearly quotas. Now we are having to retrogress due to more visa being available than can be issued. So, if DR is capped at 7%, those other visas will be issued to other countries now.
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I am not sure. But if NVC actually cared, then they would have given 7% visas to countries that are still doing 2020 DQ people. Heck even India is doing 2021. Give visas to countries that are still processing 2020 or 2021, so the whole world can be in one date. But unfortunately it's absolutely messed up. Even though PD is same, some people have to wait 3 more years because they are in a different country. And NVC won't follow category or PD, they only follow DQ date, so I have to wait once all the F4 visas are issued and 3 years of DQ people are cleared before I can even worry about something happening for F2B.
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It's number 2. I don't have any issues with them taking 7% of F2B. But if they take 50% of F2B of the whole world, then they are basically denying other countries. And DR is not even a country of like India or China like 1.3 billion+ or even Bangladesh or Pakistan like 170-220 million. The population of DR is 11 million which is basically one third of most major metropolitan cities of the countries I mentioned above. Population of Dhaka is 28 million+ lol. So, they are taking F2B visas way way above the average according to their population. Given all those complain about F4 visas taken by Bangladesh or other countries, we are not even touching 3.5% of our 7% yearly limit. We should get 7% since we are the worst in the world right now. We are doing interviews of people with Documentarily Qualified date of May 2020 in July 2023. We are more than 3 years behind.
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The whole world can move 2 years ahead if Dominican Republic is put in a separate PD. Given they have received around 1200+ F2B visas every month on average, I don't see it decreasing or anything at all in future. We are doomed if it's not separated. Every category after almost 2 years had their PD or filing date moved in visa bulletin except F2B.
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Dominican Republic received 3265 visas in June which means they only have 4615 visas left for the year (3 more months) before they cross the 7% country limit. On average they can receive 1538 visas per month. Anything above for the next 3 months, they should go into their own quota. I hope it happens else the Rest of the World will be dragged with them with retrogress and everything. After 2 years, if we have to hear we are retrogressing, then it's beyond disappointing. But I will be even more disappointed if the retrogress is being done to make sure Dominican Republic doesn't cross the 7% limit.
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Section 201 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) sets an annual minimum family-sponsored preference limit of 226,000. The worldwide level for annual employment-based preference immigrants is at least 140,000. Section 202 prescribes that the per-country limit for preference immigrants is set at 7% of the total annual family-sponsored and employment-based preference limits, i.e., 25,620. The dependent area limit is set at 2%, or 7,320. Ok here's a table I did. It seems Dominican Republic is on par just not too much over yet. So, that's even worse news. One country now basically keeping the rest of the world hostage. DR is going 2217 per month on average and they have 4 months left to cross 7880. So, they may or may not cross it depending on how USCIS decides.
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DR is Dominican Republic. I don't understand what 7% are they waiting for? 7% of the 226k visa? 7% of the F2B which they have already surpassed. DR needs to have it's own F2B Priority Date and Bangladesh and India needs to have their own F4 Priority Date. These 3 countries have pretty much kept F2B and F4 visa hostage for the rest of the world.
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Priority Date is all over the place but in the year 2014 for most of them. There have been cases of someone waiting since 2013. But embassies only schedule visas as per documentarily qualified date. So, someone may file petition later but get approved earlier from like Nebraska compared to someone waiting 5-6 years for petition to get approved from California. This scheduling interview based on DQ date is actually making it worse for some categories in some embassies. There are so few F2Bs (F1, F2A and F3 too) in Bangladesh that they can clear out 3 years of backlog in a month or just one Super Friday interview. But they don't care whose priority date is when or which categories is getting visas or what, they just follow DQ date as long as your PD is current. This is how in most countries I believe too.
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There's a 3 years 2 months wait for people who have documentarily qualified in Bangladesh. In May 2023, March 2020 DQ people are getting interviews. I think it's 1.5-2 years in India. Same in lots of other countries. Unless it moves back to within a year for some embassies, I don't see PD moving now much.
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It's actually not outrageous at all. In this current scenarios we should all hope that more and more visas get issued since they are not processing anywhere close to the 226,000 visas per year. So, lots of visas are getting unused. I don't care who is issuing what, just issue as much as you can so we don't have unused visas like the last 2-3 years.
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There are over 3 years worth of Documentarily Qualified people with Priority Date current who are waiting in Bangladesh embassy. In May 2023, March 2020 Documentarily Qualified people with PD current is getting interviews. That's 3 years 2 months delay before they can even clear out the backlog. Then we can worry about who is eligible with PD current or not.
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No. Some countries are having certain visas in higher numbers. In Bangladesh 95% of the visas are going to F4. The rest F1, F2A, F2B and F3 does not even get 1% some month. They can clear 3 years of F2B backlog in a month, but they aren't. The issue is embassies following Documentary Qualified date over Priority Date or issuing visas based on quotas. Since the quotas are not getting filled, embassies are free to use unused numbers the way they like. Per country quota of 7% of 226k = 15.82k. As long as that quota is not getting filled, they can do whatever they like. Second after that quota is filled, I am not sure if they can use the unused visas from overall quotas (226,000 worldwide), so that gives even more visas to use.