June 2008 Visa Bulletin

That means R-E-T-R-O-G-R-E-S-S-I-O-N.

Excerpt from June VB:
Demand for numbers, primarily by Citizenship and Immigration Services Offices for adjustment of status cases, is expected to bring the Employment Third preference category very close to the annual numerical limit in June. As a result, this category is likely to experience retrogressions or visa unavailability beginning in July. Such action would only be temporary, however, and a complete recovery of the cut-off dates would occur for October, the first month of the new fiscal year.

Starting the fiscal year of October 2007 only EB1 and EB2 have been current. Which AOS applications does this mean?

Was retrogression bigger last October? I mean how many years behind were cutoff dates, does anyone remember?

This is the info from the October 2007 Visa bulletin:

ROW/Philippines: 1 OCT 02
India/Mexico: 22 April 01
China: 1 Sept 01

So it was much worse than the cut off dates are right now. They don't anticipate it to retrogress back as far, but you never know.