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Department of State Says No More Immigrant Visas Available in July
07/02/2007

The U.S. Department of State (DOS) advised today that, effective July 2, 2007, there are no longer any immigrant visa numbers available in any employment-based category—including First (EB-1), Second (EB-2), and Third (EB-3) preference categories. The full text of the DOS announcement is at: http://travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/bulletin/bulletin_3263.html.

DOS had previously announced that all employmentbased categories were “current” for the month of July, and as a result most green card applicants who had been awaiting a visa number were in the process of preparing to file their I-485 adjustment of status applications during July 2007. Given this recent DOS announcement, it appears unlikely that the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) will accept any employmentbased I-485 cases.

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