USCIS reported in April 2021 that there were more than 1,300,000 such petitions at USCIS. It enters a USCIS category of 'approved petitions awaiting visa availability'.

This is especially true when the applicant was born in Mexico or the Philippines. For applicants under family preferences other than F2A (certainly F3 and F4, but often F1 and F2B) when the priority date is many years away from getting 'current' in the Visa Bulletin, then USCIS keeps the I-130 and does not send it to the NVC.Citizens as well as applicants under a F2A preference, there is no debate, the I-130 is transferred to the NVC immediately Once, the I-130 petition is approved, USCIS will make a determination as to whether the I-130 should be send to the NVC: My I-130 is approved, how long to NVC's Welcome Letter? Impact of the immigration category and country of birthР”Р„ few days for immediate relatives whose case is transferred electronically between USCIS and NVC 4 to 6 weeks for immediate relatives that have paper-based cases and years for applicants who are subject to annual numerical limits. Posts prioritize immediate relatives and F2A applicants over other family immigration categories.embassies and Consulates ('posts') in the order in which they were documentarily complete. The situation at the NVC is slowly getting better.As of February 2022, there are still about 460,000 family and employment Green Card cases that are РІР‚Вdocumentarily completeРІР‚в„ў (РІР‚Вdocumentarily qualifiedРІР‚в„ў (РІР‚ВDQРІР‚Сњ, or РІР‚Вcase completeРІР‚в„ў) but waiting for an interview to be scheduled at a U.S. What we can see is that the situation at the NVC is gradually getting better. Department of State has been publishing anР’В Immigrant Visa Backlog Report since April 2021,Р’В and this gives us a high-level understanding of where the current situation at the National Visa Center (NVC). Citizens were heavily prioritized from May 2020 to March 2021 Existing backlog at NVC Citizens is taking place, as spouses and children of U.S. Citizens are still 'prioritized' in the first 3 months of FY2022, as they have been since the summer of 2021. And they tend to prioritize immediate relative cases over preference cases. Then the NVC chooses the case to transmit to post based on the order in which they were case completeР”В«ut the point here is that there is a 'prioritization' that is made by posts. Consulate says 'in two months, I have the capacity to do 50 immediate relative interviews and 20 family preference interviews. Posts give their availability for interviews 30 to 60 days in advance by immigration category.Р”Р‡or instance, the U.S. Cases are queued for interviews based on the date they were documentarily qualified (not their Priority Date, or receipt date). In other words, the way interviews are scheduled by the NVC matters. But all family preferences, except for F2A are operating below pre-pandemic levels (red bar indicates the extent of the shortfall): Immediate Relatives are operating at pre-pandemic levels (100%) or more (green bars). Now, the situation is very different depending on the immigration category of the applicant. Consulates by number of family Green Cards issued during Fiscal Year 2019. Results are presented for the top 20 U.S. We compared the last 3 months of available data (November 2021 to January 2022) with pre-pandemic levels (last fiscal year before COVID-19, which was from October 2018 to September 2019). Note: This includes both immediate relatives and family preferences Green Cards. Here, 50% means that you are issuing half as many Green Cards now as you did before the pandemic: consulates are back to pre-pandemic levels with two more getting there (Mumbai, and Guatemala City). In fact, only 4 (Dhaka, Islamabad, Ho Chi Minh City, Manila) of the top 20 U.S. One of the reasons for this situation is that most consulates are not back to their 'pre-COVID 19' issuance levels. Citizens (spouses, parents, and young children of U.S. The situation started to improve much earlier for immediate relatives of U.S. The number of Green Cards issued through consular processing has been increasing, even if it fell in January 2022. My case is РІР‚Вdocumentarily completeРІР‚в„ў at the NVC, how long to interview? Number of Consular Green Cards issued

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