September VB

[rkm]

The September VB presents a very bleak outlook for Philippine nurses, more so with the coming October VB that predicts possible early exhaustion of visas due to heavy demand. This does not look good at all for those who pin their hopes on October bringing better news.

The Mexico F2A and Employment Third preference cut-off dates are "unavailable" for both August and September, since those FY-2008 annual limits have been reached. The Visa Office had originally anticipated that this would be a temporary situation. Then with the start of the new fiscal year in October the cut-off dates would have returned to those which had applied during June. However, continued heavy demand in those categories may require the establishment of cut-off dates which are earlier than those which had applied in June. A formal decision determination of the October cut-off dates will not be possible until early September.

http://travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/bulletin/bulletin_4328.html

[Silverdragon102, BSN]

We knew nothing would be clear until the Sept bulletin was released for October date.

[suzanne4, RN]

It has been stated over and over again that there would be no visas until the next fiscal year starts and that is not until October 1.

This is not anything new and has been going on for the past three months that the US State Dept has made this a fact.

We still do not see much movement in October just due to the number of applicants that are currently waiting with completed files already.

[RNGrad2006]

The September VB presents a very bleak outlook for Philippine nurses, more so with the coming October VB that predicts possible early exhaustion of visas due to heavy demand. This does not look good at all for those who pin their hopes on October bringing better news.

The Mexico F2A and Employment Third preference cut-off dates are "unavailable" for both August and September, since those FY-2008 annual limits have been reached. The Visa Office had originally anticipated that this would be a temporary situation. Then with the start of the new fiscal year in October the cut-off dates would have returned to those which had applied during June. However, continued heavy demand in those categories may require the establishment of cut-off dates which are earlier than those which had applied in June. A formal decision determination of the October cut-off dates will not be possible until early September.

http://travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/bulletin/bulletin_4328.html

The VB looks bleak for ALL nurses and this is nothing new. Not sure why you focus on the Philippines though since they have been at the same cut off with ROW for quite some time now. Many were hopeful last October also but nothing dramatic happened at that time either. Many of the moderators have been stating the same message over and over. It may be discouraging but that is just how things are right now. Don't anticipate things to change anytime soon.