Immigration Attorney

Carl Shusterman

Understanding the Visa Bulletin:

Employment-Based Categories

EB Preference Categories

EB-1 – Priority Workers

EB-2 – Advanced Degrees

EB-3 – Professionals,

Skilled/Unskilled

Workers

EB-4 – Religious Workers,

et al

Doing The Numbers

140,000 Persons Per Year

Principal & Derivative

Beneficiaries

7% Per-Country Limitation

Alternate Chargeability

Waiting Times: Looking Forward

Monthly Visa Bulletin –

Looks Backwards

Priority Dates – PERM and

I-140

EB-3 India – Frozen in Time

Changing Categories:

Employment-Based

EB-3 to EB-2 (to EB-1)

Retention of Priority Date

New Petition (and PERM)

Required

Immigration Reform Bill

Would…

Eliminate EB Per-Country

Quotas

Exempt Many Persons from

Quotas

Recapture Unused Green

Cards