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In our continuing series of reports, Charles (“Charlie”) Oppenheim, Chief of the Visa Control and Reporting Division, U.S. Department of State, shares his most recent analysis of current trends and…
Continue Reading Immigrant Visa Processing Changes – EB1 China/India retrogress; EB2/3 India/China to advance; EB2/3 Worldwide will remain current; Visa Office on Priority Dates, Demand, and Predictions

In our continuing series of reports, Charles (“Charlie”) Oppenheim, Chief of the Visa Control and Reporting Division, U.S. Department of State, shares his most recent analysis of current trends and…
Continue Reading Immigrant Visa Processing Changes – EB1 China/India will become current; EB2/3 India and China continue to advance; EB2/3 Worldwide will remain current; Visa Office on Priority Dates, Demand, and Predictions

In our continuing series of reports, Charles (“Charlie”) Oppenheim, Chief of the Visa Control and Reporting Division, U.S. Department of State, shares his most recent analysis of current trends and…
Continue Reading Immigrant Visa Processing Changes – EB2/3 India advances minimally; EB2 China will advance, but EB3 China will retrogress; EB3 Worldwide will advance minimally; Visa Office on Priority Dates, Demand, and Predictions

In our continuing series of reports, Charles (“Charlie”) Oppenheim, Chief of the Visa Control and Reporting Division, U.S. Department of State, shares his most recent analysis of current trends and…
Continue Reading Immigrant Visa Processing Changes – EB1 India and China will retrogress; EB2 China will advance; Visa Office on Priority Dates, Demand, and Predictions

In our continuing series of reports, Charles (“Charlie”) Oppenheim, Chief of the Visa Control and Reporting Division, U.S. Department of State, shares his most recent analysis of current trends and…
Continue Reading Immigrant Visa Processing Changes – EB1 India will retrogress; EB2 China will advance, but EB2 India will not change; EB3 Worldwide will advance; Visa Office on Priority Dates, Demand, and Predictions

In our continuing series of reports, Charles (“Charlie”) Oppenheim, Chief of the Visa Control and Reporting Division, U.S. Department of State, shares his most recent analysis of current trends and…
Continue Reading Immigrant Visa Processing Changes – EB2 Worldwide continues to hover close to current; EB2/3 India and China remain backlogged; Visa Office on Priority Dates, Demand, and Predictions

In our continuing series of reports, Charles (“Charlie”) Oppenheim, Chief of the Visa Control and Reporting Division, U.S. Department of State, shares his most recent analysis of current trends and…
Continue Reading Immigrant Visa Processing Changes – EB1 retrogression expected; EB2 Worldwide and India will retrogress; EB2/3 China remains backlogged; Visa Office on Priority Dates, Demand, and Predictions

In our continuing series of reports, Charles (“Charlie”) Oppenheim, Chief of the Visa Control and Reporting Division, U.S. Department of State, shares his most recent analysis of current trends and…
Continue Reading Immigrant Visa Processing Changes – EB2 & EB3 India and China move forward – Visa Office on Priority Dates, Demand, and Predictions

In our continuing series of reports, Charles (“Charlie”) Oppenheim, Chief of the Visa Control and Reporting Division, U.S. Department of State, shares his most recent analysis of current trends and…
Continue Reading Immigrant Visa Processing Changes – EB2 India moves forward; EB2 & EB3 China stays the same – Visa Office on Priority Dates, Demand, and Predictions

CNN Money reports that DHS is being showered with flower deliveries in nonviolent protest against the government’s issuance of a revised October 2015 Visa Bulletin (http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/bulletin/2016/visa-bulletin-for-october-2015.html).  According to the article,…
Continue Reading DHS Showered in Flowers in Protest of Oct. 2015 Visa Bulletin “Rollback”