RR159
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Nothing against DR. Things are “sluggish” because we’re not focusing on the rules. As the visa bulletin states every month: “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”. This is subsequently spelled out more clearly here: https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/Immigrant-Statistics/Web_Annual_Numerical_Limits_FY2024.pdf In FY 2024, it could even be Philippines. Their PD cutoff dates are far behind other countries including DR. The point is, once these countries reach the threshold, other countries should be given a fair chance.
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Philippines, DR and Jamaica did receive F1’s. In fact DR is halfway past their annual quota of 1638 F1’s for 2024 (@860 now). Speaking of which, DR is already close to their annual limit of 1838 F2B’s for 2024 (@1661 now).
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Monthly report for November is out. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-statistics/immigrant-visa-statistics/monthly-immigrant-visa-issuances.html F2B for DR is down: from 1286 in October to 375. Not sure if it’s a good sign or bad, since total F2B visas also reduced to 1158!! In October it was 2581.
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Agreed that it will create more backlog than solving the problem. When the per country limit is 7%, Dominican Republic already received more than 12% (in 2023). Now they are proposing a limit of 15% for family categories, MAYBE DR will now receive 25%+. Meanwhile rest of the world will continue to suffer. Instead why can’t they enforce the existing rules? Since DR is grossly oversubscribed, they should set up a new PD cutoff date for DR, just like Mexico, India, China or Philippines.
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Immigration visa efficiency and security act 2023: is this new bill going to help, or hurt, current applicants?
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To simplify, we can say that a lot of F2B beneficiaries have educational qualifications as well as work experience, but are unable to get sponsorship from their employers, for whatever reasons. Since they are being sponsored by their parents, they should be provided with an expedited process to get their visa or adjust their status.
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Yes! F2B moved up by 9(NINE) days.
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Does anyone from Visa Office at the Department of State actually look up this thread?
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A total of 41,812 interviews are scheduled for the month of November. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/visas-backlog.html There is a good chance that more than 552 F2B candidates from DR are in that interview list.
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Immediate relative (IR) categories are not included in that limit of 25,620. Those countries exceed the limit without IR’s.
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Looking forward to the annual report. On a somewhat similar situation, in FY 2022, India, China, Mexico received more than 25,620 combined visas (family + employment). Is it because they are exempt from this restriction? Hopefully DR is not exempt as well.
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🙂 lol indeed! Last year the numerical limit for any country was 25,620 (family and employment categories combined). DR received 45k+.
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You are absolutely right, those are a lot of people being processed from Dominican Republic. According to the link below, F2B has a limit of 1,838 for any specific foreign state. https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/Immigrant-Statistics/Web_Annual_Numerical_Limits_FY2024.pdf In October, they received 1286 F2B’s. So there are only 552 F2B’s available for them, for the remainder of the fiscal year 2024 (Nov ‘23 to Sep ‘24). Let’s see how it goes for Dominican Republic in November.
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Well annual numerical limits came out for FY 2024 and it shows worldwide F2B limit of 26,266 (expected). It also shows 7% limit for individual foreign states AND for individual categories. So F2B has a limit of 1,838 for any specific foreign state. Let’s see how it goes for Dominican Republic… https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/Immigrant-Statistics/Web_Annual_Numerical_Limits_FY2024.pdf
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Maybe it’s the “Dependent area limit is set at 2%?” So the F2B beneficiaries also included theirs dependent children but stayed within 9% in total? F2B’s are not allowed to be married but nothing stops them from having dependent children.
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“The backlog will be cleared somewhere in the middle of next year”… famous last words:) There’s no way of knowing that.
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So Dominican Republic continues to dominate the tables!...I am not sure if USCIS will impose the 7% quota on DR even if they exceed that. USCIS is so expert at doing nothing...
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Of course! Waiting long enough to see false hopes being spread, but actually no progress being made. So yes, I would like to know the source please.
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If members of congress are writing to USCIS that will be great! May I know the source of this news?
