What the heck does THIS mean?

[kevinbeijing]

I don't really know what this means, but it doesn't sound good... any thoughts?

 

http://travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/bulletin...letin_3263.html

 

more...

 

http://wadias.in/site/arzan/blog/uscis-rej...5-applications/

 

Should I (we) be worried?

Kevin

[Randy W]

Only for employment-based applications. There is only a limited number every year.

 

Effective Monday July 2, 2007 there will be no further authorizations in response to requests for Employment-based preference cases. All numbers available to these categories under the FY-2007 annual numerical limitation have been made available.

 

Employment preference numbers will once again be available to these chargeability areas beginning October 1, 2007, under the FY-2008 annual numerical limitation.

[bosco]

That would be H1B's only correct?

[jim_julian]

I think so Curt ... we bump this on an annual basis in hiring non-US people.

[mercator]

Basically Uncle Sam was overly efficient this year (they will fix that for next year rest assured), and so they allocated all their work visas for 2007 at the half way point.

 

It basically means the work visa people need to wait until 2008...

 

This is not family-related visas which if there is a finite number, it isn't going to be reached anytime soon. The backlog there is still MASSIVE and quite inefficient (IMHO)

[SirLancelot]

I think so Curt ... we bump this on an annual basis in hiring non-US people.

 

Jim is right. This happens every year and is completely a non-event. The hype and BS that's being spread about this being anything unusual is completely due to ignorance and this year's focus on immigration in Congress.

 

This has nothing to do with our family based AoS, especially for K1 and K3 adjustments as there's no numerical limits/quotas for K1/K3 visa holders whatsoever. There could be millions of K1 AoS filers this year and USCIS would accept every single one of them.