Visa Bulletin August 2013
EMPLOYMENT-BASED PREFERENCESFirst: Priority Workers: 28.6% of the worldwide employment-based preference level, plus any numbers not required for fourth and fifth preferences.
Second: Members of the Professions Holding Advanced Degrees or Persons of Exceptional Ability: 28.6% of the worldwide employment-based preference level, plus any numbers not required by first preference.
Third: Skilled Workers, Professionals, and Other Workers: 28.6% of the worldwide level, plus any numbers not required by first and second preferences, not more than 10,000 of which to "*Other Workers".
Fourth: Certain Special Immigrants: 7.1% of the worldwide level.
Fifth: Employment Creation: 7.1% of the worldwide level, not less than 3,000 of which reserved for investors in a targeted rural or high-unemployment area, and 3,000 set aside for investors in regional centers by Sec. 610 of Pub. L. 102-395.
On the chart below, the listing of a date for any class indicates that the class is oversubscribed (see paragraph 1); "C" means current, i.e., numbers are available for all qualified applicants; and "U" means unavailable, i.e., no numbers are available. (NOTE: Numbers are available only for applicants whose priority date is earlier than the cut-off date listed below.)
Employment- Based | All Chargeability Areas Except Those Listed |
CHINA- mainland born | INDIA | MEXICO | PHILIPPINES |
1st | C | C | C | C | C |
2nd | C | 08AUG08 | 01JAN08 | C | C |
3rd | 01JAN09 | 01JAN09 | 22JAN03 | 01JAN09 | 22OCT06 |
Other Workers | 01JAN09 | 22MAR04 | 22JAN03 | 01JAN09 | 22OCT06 |
4th | C | C | C | C | C |
Certain Religious Workers | C | C | C | C | C |
5th Targeted EmploymentAreas/ Regional Centers and Pilot Programs |
C | C | C | C |
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