The Visa Bulletin Board is a very useful and highly informative website that contains information that will help anyone determine what is going on with their file. The website can be found at http://travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/bulletin/bulletin_1360.html. On this page will be links to the current months bulletin and the following months bulletin. Lastly, there is a link to the archived bulletins.
For example, this month, November 2009, can be broken down as follows.
In the family section of the bulletin Visas are being issued to 1st preference individuals who applied during 15 Oct. 2003, 15 Oct. 2003, 08 July 1992, 22 Oct. 1992 and 15 Oct. 2003 for the following areas China, India, Mexico, Philippines, all other areas respectively. 2nd preferences are categorized as follows: 15 Aug. 2005, 15 Aug. 2005, 15 June 2003, 15 Aug. 2005, 15 Aug. 2005 for the following areas; China, India, Mexico, Philippines, all other areas respectively. 3rd family preferences are as follows: 01 Oct. 2001, 01 Oct. 2001, 01 June 1992, 15 May 1998, 01 Oct. 2001 for the following areas; China, India, Mexico, Philippines, all other areas respectively. 4th family preferences are as follows 15 Jun 1999, 15 Jun 1999, 08 November 1995, 15 Jan 1987, 15 Jun 1999 for the following areas; China, India, Mexico, Philippines, all other areas respectively.
The employment based Visas can be broken down as follows.
1st preference - current for all areas.
2nd preference - current for Mexico, Philippines, all other areas. 01 April 2005 and 22 Jan 2005 for China and India respectively.
3rd preference - 01 June 2001, 01 June 2002, 22 Apr. 2001, 01 June 2002, 01 June 2002 for the following areas; all other areas, China, India, Mexico, Philippines.
4th preference - current for all areas
5th preference - unavailable
The Diversity immigrant visa lottery is broken down as follows for November 2009.
Africa 14,000 (Except for Egypt[6,200], Ethiopia[6,700], and Nigeria[8,700])
Asia 7,200
Europe 9,500
North America 2
Oceania 475
South America and the Caribbean 575
The Bulletin has a host of other information on the website and I highly recommend taking a look.
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