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: The Visa Bulletin

April 2009 Visa Bulletin // With Comments and Discussion

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March 10, 2009

The Visa Bulletin for April 2009 was posted by the State Department earlier today. Screenshots posted below.

Family Preference Categories

Fam-ily	All Charge- ability Areas Except Those Listed	CHINA-mainland born	INDIA	MEXICO	PHILIPP-INES
1st	15AUG02	15AUG02	15AUG02	08OCT92	01AUG93
2A	15AUG04	15AUG04	15AUG04	01JAN02	15AUG04
2B	01SEP00	01SEP00	01SEP00	01MAY92	15JAN98
3rd	22AUG00	22AUG00	22AUG00	22OCT92	15JUN91
4th	15APR98	08JAN98	15APR98	22APR95	22JUN86

Employment Preference Categories

	All Charge-ability Areas Except Those Listed	CHINA- mainland born	INDIA	MEXICO	PHILIP-PINES
Employ-ment -Based
1st	C	C	C	C	C
2nd	C	15FEB05	15FEB04	C	C
3rd	01MAR03	01MAR03	01NOV01	01MAR03	01MAR03
Other Workers	01MAR01	01MAR01	01MAR01	01MAR01	01MAR01
4th	C	C	C	C	C
Certain Religious Workers	U	U	U	U	U
5th	C	C	C	C	C
Targeted Employ-ment Areas	C	C	C	C	C
5th Pilot Progams	U	U	U	U	U

D. EXPIRATION OF TWO EMPLOYMENT VISA CATEGORIES

Employment Fourth Preference Certain Religious Workers:

Pursuant to Section 2(a) of the Special Immigrant Nonminister Religious Worker Program Act (Pub. L. 110-391), the nonminister special immigrant program expires on March 6, 2009.

Employment Fifth Preference Pilot Program Categories (I5, R5):

Pursuant to Section 144 of the Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009 (Public Law 110-329), the immigrant investor pilot program expires on March 6, 2009.

The cut-off dates for the above categories are shown as ?Unavailable? for April. Congress is considering an extension for each of these categories, but there is no certainty when such legislative action may occur. If legislation to extend either of these categories is enacted, the cut-off date for that category would immediately become ?Current.?

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