(F4) Another Compelling Evidence to Show the Effect of 2001 Amnesty

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DOS published the FY 2013 Immigrant Visa Issuance ( including AOS). I tabulated the F4 visa numbers for countries that are considered major source of immigrants to U.S. Here is the surprising results. (Please click on the graph to enlarge it)

Graph 1. # Change in visa issurance

Graph 2. # changes by continent

Conclusion: Apparently, in FY 2013, a considerable amount of visa numbers were given to south/north american countries. These countries are major source of illegal immigrants in the U.S. Therefore, considering the fact that in FY 2013 the priority date for F4 was stuck around 05/01/2001 for almost 9 months, and that the deadline for that amnesty was 04/30/2001, it's clear that it is this amnesty that caused drastic slowdown in the movement of visa bulletin last year.

Edited January 25, 2014 by lengygf

[Visa Grant 78]

DOS published the FY 2013 Immigrant Visa Issuance ( including AOS). I tabulated the F4 visa numbers for countries that are considered major source of immigrants to U.S. Here is the surprising results. (Please click on the graph to enlarge it)

Graph 1. # Change in visa issurance

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Graph 2. # changes by continent

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Conclusion: Apparently, in FY 2013, a considerable amount of visa numbers were given to south/north american countries. These countries are major source of illegal immigrants in the U.S. Therefore, considering the fact that in FY 2013 the priority date for F4 was stuck around 05/01/2001 for almost 9 months, and that the deadline for that amnesty was 04/30/2001, it's clear that it is this amnesty that caused drastic slowdown in the movement of visa bulletin last year.

I agree amnestry might be the reason, but may not conclude as a fact. Amnestry was also provided to the petitions from Asia too...

......Good Analysis...

From this data, we can infer that the F4 visa movement forward can only happen if they increase the quota and the per country limit..

Good Luck..