Department of State Says No More Immigrant Visas Available in July

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.