Since the BEST NEWS thread has been closed. I will be starting a new one. Topics that will be posted here would be experiences related after retrogression. What really happened to those applications that were pending before retrogression? Did the NVC completely cleared pending cases?
Based on my experience and from what i have read from other posts... I completely agree with Suzanne that NVC did not SPEEED THINGS UP and NVC did not cleared the backlog for Schedule A completely. In other words their processing is the same as even there is no retrogression for EB3. Although the good thing is that nurses were able to get interview appointments and visas.
The most anticipated date would be September 15, 2005. This will be the date (on or before) that the October VISA BULLETIN will be released. According to the Immigration and Nationality Act...October 1 marks the first quarter of the U.S. Fiscal Year 2006. It is stated on their law that new visa numbers will be released during this month.
EB3 applicants that were affected by retrogression particularly TECH workers are anxiously waiting and praying that visa numbers CUT OFF DATES will move. They are hoping that the EB3 category will change to U (unavailable) to a new cut-off date.
WHAT IS THE IMAPACT OF THIS TO SCHEDULE A???
Many are curious what is the impact of the new numbers to Schedule A/ EX Category that will be released this October. If logical analysis would be done, effect would slow down the processing of Schedule A workers because NVC resources would be allocated to other EB3 applicants.
The same logical analysis was done when the EB3 was shut down last June 2005, but it did not SPEED THINGS UP with NVC for the processing of Schedule A.
So i will agree with Suzanne that there will be no effect. Cases will be processed according to priority date or Cut Off Dates and it would still be slow.
THE GOOD NEWS FOR SCHEDULE A...
According to the law, Schedule A workers can EAT UP THE VISAS from the normal pool of visas that will be available as long as their cut-off dates are included in the EB3 visa bulletin. It means that instead of the 50k visas will be depleted, they will be depleting first the allocated visas for the first quarter of the U.S. Fiscal year 2006. More visas for Schedule A this October.
Please post questions, comments, experiences here!
