[COLUMN] The October 2021 priority dates: No change from September

THE October priority dates are typically the start of the new “fiscal year” for visas, where a new annual supply of visas is made available.  Usually, with a new supply of visas, the priority dates move forward in the various family categories.  However, for October 2021, the priority dates did not move at all.  They are the same as September 2021.  Fortunately, employment-based visas remain “current.”

Each month, the Visa Office of the State Department publishes, in the Visa Bulletin, the priority dates for that particular month, for the various family and employment-based categories. A priority date is a person’s “place in line” for a visa, meaning immigrant visas (or green cards) would be available for persons whose priority date is earlier than the cut-off date listed below. If your priority date was “current,” but later retrogressed (or “moved backwards” and became unavailable) before your immigrant visa was issued (or before you adjusted status in the U.S.), you would have to wait until it becomes current again.

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