Where to get exact visa dates info from?

[rsmit02]

Hi all,

I am wondering if anyone knows or anyone can give me me a link to information on how to tell what your exact countries EB dates are. I am born in the UK and know the visa date for EB3 in the worldwide category is Jan 01 is this the exact date for the uk?

Also to understand this right if the date is Aug 02 it means the people who applied for their EB3 visa up to Aug 02 are currently being processed for and issued visas? Meaning as a uk born citizen in theory for a hospital to hire me right now it would be 5 years till my visa came through? I take it you cannot file for a temp work visa via adjustment of status in the mean time if you have applied for EB3?

How can I know what the uks exact dates are for EB3? Boy I hope that Schedule A comes back in the fall or I will have to go the HC-1 route!!!

Ruthx

[suzanne4, RN]

There are no temporary work visas for nurses. The EAD that people apply for when they submit for the I-485 is not a temporary work visa, it is a document that gives you permission to work while your petitions are being processed. The AOS petition is actually the EB-3 as well, it is just different processing from the AOS procedure. Both actually use the I-140, and then there are changes. The CP uses the DS-230 and the AOS uses the I-485 and the petition for the EAD that permits you to work.

Unitl this past February, nurses were under the Schedule A and were fast-tracked to the green card ahead of many other professions. But that is not the case right now, there is no fast-tracking at the moment, so nurses are lumped in with others that came here on the H1-B and have been waiting for the green card, the typical processing is about four to five years for most to get the green card.

New visa bulletin is released the middle of the month before it goes into effect, the October one will be out in about two weeks, and we will know much more then. The new fiscal year starts October 1 as well. But the issue is that we do not know what they will make available then do to the fact that there were 300,000 I-485 petitions submitted last month when there were not any visas available.

As soon as the Visa Bulletin is released, you will see links to it on this forum. That is what gives the actual numbers, and it changes each month.