Visa Bulletin March 2008

azil · Feb 15, 2008

Best if you consult with your lawyer. As far as I know, everyone has to be present and even if they give your wife an immigrant visa even though she is out of the country as I'm presuming she has been interviewed as well already, she has to use it within 6 mos. If one is not able to use it on that time-frame they will consider it abandoned and therefore the visa number re-captured for the use of another one willing to use it. I think the main problem is if your wife's employer in UAE will let her travel out of UAE and let her opt out of her contract. If her employer, keeps her passport as that is the practice of some employers, then whether or not she can get an immigrant visa would not matter much as your wife needs to give her passport to the consul to have it stamped.

She was with me during the interview.Is it not applicable for her the FOLLOW TO JOIN visa? What this mean?

lawrence01 · Feb 15, 2008

She was with me during the interview.Is it not applicable for her the FOLLOW TO JOIN visa? What this mean?

The issue is if she will be given one together with you, as you mentioned that there might be a possibility she can't since she just left for UAE. From what I've been hearing, it takes considerable time for follow-to-join procedures.

This is best answered by a lawyer.

suzanne4, RN · Feb 15, 2008

Congrats to everyone who will get their GCs after waiting for so long.
Bad news for Indian nurses though with EB3 cut offs hardly moving ahead. If the Phil EB3 moves at this rate, it may very well mean the end of retrogression for them and as Phillipines supplies the majority of nurses there will be no more efforts for recapturing visas either. Recruiters and hospital may actually replace Indian nurses waiting in queue with fresh Filipino nurses as they will take much much shorter time to get to the US.

Read that top opening paragraph on the VB, it states that they expect all numbers to retrogress again, that is just what they were anticipating on that one day only in February when they needed to get the VB ready to be published.

It has nothing to do with nurses specifically, but the number of visas per country that are issued. You have many more with technical skills that are already in the US with the green card in the firat place. The Philippines does not have that.