0:00 Hello friends, Mandar here. I'm back with another video. Today we'll talk about June 2025 visa blitin. What is the scene of the progress in the employment based category? I'll also talk about the processing times for perm. Then there is a 5% remittance tax by US government for NRIs. We'll talk about that and then we'll talk about some important questions that I got in the comment section which I would like to clarify. So lot of interesting topic guys. Watch this video until the end and let's get started. [Applause] [Music]
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2:18 2025 visa bulletin and on the right hand side we have June 2025 visa bulletin. So let's look at the final action chart for the family based section. So F1 category has progressed for our all chargeability from 15th of March 2016 to 8th of June 2016. Same for China and India which is a good news for Mexico and Philippines. The dates haven't changed. F2A category has remained the same for all chargeability China and India and also for Mexico and Philippines. Now F2B category has progressed from 22nd of July 2016 to 22nd of September 2016. For all chargeability, China and India, Mexico it has remained the same and Philippines it has remained the same. F3
3:04 category has also progressed from 1st of April 2011 to 22nd of June 2011 which is good news for all chargeability China and India. Mexico and Philippines however have remained the same. Now F4 category has remained the same for all chargeability China and India at 1st of January 2008. For Mexico it is still at 15th of March 2001 and Philippines it is still at 1st of June 2005. So slight and moderate moment in F_sub_1, F_sub_2B and F_sub_3 category for all chargeability China and India which is good news. Now let's look at the filing date chart which is the chart to be used by family based section for applying for their 485. Now what's happening in filing date chart? So F1 has remained the same 1st
3:51 of September 2017 for all chargeability China, India, Mexico and Philippines has also not changed. It remains unchanged. F2A category has remained the same for 1st of February 2025 across the board for all of all the world. F2B has remained the same 1st of January 2017 for all chargeability. China, India, no change there. Mexico and Philippines have also remained the same. F3 category, F3 category has remained the same throughout. F4 category has slightly progressed forward for India specifically from 1st of October 2006 to 1st of December 2006 which means that if you are a brother or a sister of a US citizen your dates have become current
4:38 up until 2008. Now let's look at the final action chart employment base section. Now all chargeability remains current for EB1. For China, the dates have remained current same at 8th of November 2022. For India, the date has remained the same for 15th of February 2022. This has been really frustrating for India because the date hasn't moved in the final action chart for a while most more than a year. Mexico and Philippines remain current. EB2 category, let's see if there is any date change. And yes, there is. All chargeability has moved forward from 22nd of June 2023 to 15th of October 2023 which is a good news because that means the all chargeability rest of the world uh visa numbers are being used.
5:24 Now China has moved forward from 1st of October 2020 to 1st of December 2020s which is progress of 2 months. India for EB2 hasn't changed at all. It still stays steady at 1st of January 2013. Mexico has progressed from 22nd of June 2023 to 15th of October 2023 and Philippines has moved forward from 22nd of June 2023 to 15th of October 2023. Now let's look at EB3. EB3 has moved forward for all chargeability from 1st of January 2023 to 8th of February 2023. China has moved forward from 1st of November 2020 to 22nd of November. Just a modest increase or improvement by 3
6:10 weeks. India has however remained the same 15th of April 2013. No change for India EB3 or EB2 for that matter. Mexico has progressed from 1st of January 2023 to 8th of February 2023. Philippines has moved from 1st of January 2023 to 8th of February 2023. Other workers category has also progressed for all chargeability had progressed by about a month. For China it has not progressed for India it remains the same. Mexico and Philippines it has progressed by about a month. Now those unavailable categories for all fourth preference category and certain religious category still remains unavailable and I will anticipate them remaining unavailable for the remainder of the fiscal year which is until end of September. Now
6:58 unreserved category of EB5 has not progressed for China and India. It has the dates exactly the same as last month but for the rest of the EB5 the chart is all current. Now let's look at finding date chart which I'm not expecting that anything has changed but let's see employment based EB1 first preference category all chargeability remains current. China has not changed from 1st of January 2023. It remains the same. And India also has not changed from 15th of April 2022. It remains the same. Mexico and Philippines are current for EB1. EB2 has progressed for all chargeability from 1st of August 2023 to 15th of November 2023. Now for China,
7:44 EB2 has progressed from 1st of November 2020 to 1st of January 2021. India has remained the same. It is stuck at 1st of February 2013. Mexico has progressed from 1st of August 2023 to 15th of November 2023. Philippines has also progressed from 1st of August 2023 to 15th of November 2023. All chargeability third pref employment third preference category has progressed has not progressed at all. It remains at 1 March 2023. China however has progressed by about a month from 15th of November to 22nd of December 2020. India has not progressed at all. It has it remains at 8th of June 2013
8:31 and Mexico and Philippines also remained the same. Other workers category has not changed at all. It remains exactly the same across the board. EB4 has also remained exactly the same at 1st of February 2021. Certain religious category has also remained exactly the same. EB5 preference category also remains current. So that was the filing date chart. Now you might ask what will happen? What is going to be expected in July visa bulletin? Now in the July visa bulletin it will be the beginning of the last quarter of this fiscal year. So I'm anticipating some spillover numbers from lateral if there are the categories current especially for EB1. There might be some progression which I can expect for EB2 and EB3 also. I will expect some
9:16 progression in the filing date chart and even in the final action chart. It may not be significant. It might be marginal maybe by couple of weeks. I'm expecting for all three categories in July visa. That's just my speculation. Now in October visa again I go back to my comments that I will see about 8 6 to 8 months of progression in EB2 and EB3 category. EB1 category. Nobody nobody can tell because there is lot of upgrades that are happening. There is no clear indication of how many upgrades are being. Now we are going to look at some of the inventory data towards the end of this video. So stay tuned for that. Now a couple of people have asked me that they are stuck in perm processing and this is true because I have seen the latest news on pro perm processing updates and it seems like it
10:02 is a 18month wait even without any audit. So some of the very small percentage of the perm applications go through an audit and if that happens the the timeline of perm processing increases dramatically at least by 6 to 8 months but if you are not going through an audit the general timeline right now for majority of the people is at least year and a half. So take that into account when you are planning for your job change, planning for travel and so on because you need to pay attention once you apply for your perm application. That is when your priority date is set and that is the first step of your green card. Now there is a chatter about 5% remittance tax for Indian citizens. Now this has not come into the law but it is expected to be
10:48 part of the bill that is being produced in the Congress. Now this is going to be ratified. This is going to be if at all it passes in house and in senate and if it's signed by the president there is a provision that US government is going to take away 5% for every dollar that you transfer or trans or remmit to India. Now this is applicable to only non-citizens. If you are a US citizen transferring dollars outside you are not subject to this five 5% tax. But if you're non-citizen, green card holders, NRIs on visas, they might be impacted by this remittance tax. And this is painful and especially it will impact even more for people who are trying to move back to India. So in a sense that if you are moving after several decades or many
11:34 years, you might have substantial savings that you have and you want to take it back to your home country. In that situation, there will be a 5% tax that will be taken away by the US government. So you need to account for that. Now this is not yet a law. If it becomes a law, it might be effective in July or August. So this is just a speculation at this point of time if the law passes. Now next topic today I'm going to answer a couple of questions. Now first before going through the questions I want to look at some of the inventory data that has come out. Now this first inventory data is number of form numbers for form I130. Now I130 is for relatives of US citizen. So I130 is family based petition awaiting visa
12:20 availability. So if you look at this chart closely family pre preference category on the left hand side you have beneficiaries country of birth. Remember the immigration in the United States is based on country of birth. So even if you obtain a citizenship for any other country that will not matter in terms of US immigration. This is a very common question. So I wanted to just address it. Now the second thing is F_sub_1 un so there are categories F_sub_1, F_sub_2A, F_sub_2B, F_sub_3 and F_sub_4. So F_sub_1 is unmarried sons and daughters of US citizens. Now the total number of pending petitions for I130 in this category are 90,000. Now out of which China is 733, India is 593. Look at it. Mexico has the highest number of
13:07 family based petitions followed by Philippines and then the rest of the world has 51,000. So India and China numbers are quite low for F1 category and the trend continues for F2A spouses and children's of LPR which is legal permanent resident. Now these numbers are not very substantial for India. If you can see compared to EB category these numbers are way very way very low. But the categories that you can see the high numbers are in F4 category for India which is quite significant which is 65,000 which is brothers and sisters of uh US citizens. The reason I wanted to share is just that just gives us a perspective of how many now how many visas and numbers are available it's 235,000. So it's long. It's a lot of visas available. But you, as you can
13:53 see, the total number of pending applicants for I130 are 1.1 million. Whereas the visa numbers available every year are much lower than that. Now I40 numbers, here's something that you might want to see. Pending I130, I140 number. Now I40 is the employment based petition which is for EB1, EB2 and EB3. So let's look at those numbers. For first priority, it is 17,000 pending I140 petitions. For EB2 category, there is 328,000 visa uh people pending in EB2 category with advanced degree. Now third performance category. So I'm I'm just looking at India numbers. You can see they are significantly higher than any
14:39 other country even rest of the world put together. So none of them even come any close to the numbers of India. So EB2 category has 200 328,000. EB3 category has 102,000 pending I140 which means these are approved I140 pending the visa number visa availability number. Let me just clarify these numbers are pending number for visa availability. So as you can see how many are in total for India there are well over 451,000 pending I140 numbers for these categories. I just wanted to share this because this will put things in perspective and this data is as of December 2024. So it's already 4 months
15:24 5 months late. So there must be even more numbers in this category. Now let's look at some of the common questions that I get asked. Okay. So what are the chances of forward movement of EB2 and EB3? So this question is important because I think since USC has changed their approach to making the visa numbers available instead of making them available right at the beginning of the year they are taking quarterly approaches. So every quarter they release certain number of visas. They consider how much is the usage in other categories and if there are any spillovers they do it quarterly adjustments. So then the next quarter starts in July because July, August and September will be the last quarter of this fiscal year. So in July visa bulletin I'm expecting to see a little bit of a forward moment in EB2 and EB3
16:11 but don't expect very significant. It might be just few days or maybe up to two to three weeks. That's it. Now second question. My I140 was approved for a previous employer. Now I joined another company. Do I need to carry any additional documents along with H for H1B stamping? Now for H1B stamping, you have to carry a lot of documentation. So basically you have to assume that they are going to look at your case as if it's a fresh H1B petition. This is because of the extreme vetting. Now if you were to submit your petition first time for H1B, what will you require? You will require a job letter. You will require a job offer letter. So that is mandatory. You'll also if if you are going for restamping and if you are just if you are just visiting from the US you want to demonstrate that you have been
16:58 in the US on a valid visa and you have not overstayed your visa. For that reason you will have to carry some of the payubs for last couple of months. Now they are not going to look at the entirety of the data. They already have it. Your entry and exit information is already with the visa officers at the consulate. What they will need to check is whether you are employed while you are in US on H1B visa. So that can be proved with the help of your pastups. So make sure that you carry your payubs for at least last couple of months. So you have offer letter, you have payubs. Now you also want to make sure that you carry some documentation that stay in the United States. So in the sense that you have been in the living in the United States and if you were to not be given a visa, it will put you into some hardships. If you have house in the US,
17:45 if you have car in the US, keep those documents ready. maybe say registration or home um agreement or lease or something like that. Just keep them with you. Always carry your marriage certificate, your birth certificate copies with you. They are not required but just in case. And most importantly, be prepared to answer any questions regarding your background check. Now, there are 221gs that are being given out by the consulates to gain extra time. Now I had made a special video on what kind of 221gs are given out based on the color of the slips that you get. Some is only to get additional time. Some is for missing information on your form DS160 form. Some is for incorrect information on your form and so on. So there are so so many different categories. So invest
18:30 time in reading through your petition or your form before submitting for for stamping. Now there is another question regarding the registration. Okay. So I did my fingerprints back in 2023 and plan to come to the United States on June for 45 days. I'm not sure about registration. Do I need to do it? So anybody who has gone through the visa process probably has given their fingerprint. It all comes to biometrics. They want to identify people who are living on a visa or not on a visa who are not living or who are undocumented are registered. So they they are asking if you haven't ever given your fingerprints now is the time to give that those fingerprints by doing the registration. So those are the only people who are going to be called for registration. Now if you have a green
19:17 card or if you have a visa chances are you have already done your fingerprinting and they already have it. So you don't need to register. So just a clarification on that. Now there are a lot of videos now there are a lot of videos scaring people on green card to not travel which is which is unbelievable. I don't believe that because there are few instances far and between those are so fringe instances that you don't need to worry about. Normal visa holders and green card holders do not need to fear about traveling. Now granted, if you had some incidents in the past regarding your background check, say you had an arrest warrant, you had a domestic violence incident or you had a DUI ticket and those sort of things, then you need to be cautious. You need to carry all the documentation and be prepared to answer
20:03 the questions if visa officer asks. Those are the only instances. Otherwise, you don't need to worry about traveling and coming back to the United States if you have a valid visa stamped on your passport if you are on a green card and obviously citizens don't need to worry. Anyways, so that's all I wanted to say in this video. If you are interested in EB1A masterass, the next class is happening on 31st of May, which is a Saturday at 11:00 in the morning Eastern time. So, if you haven't registered, find the link in the description and sign up for that class. Now, if you also want to talk to me, you can find that link in the description as well. Those are calendarly links. You can select 30 minutes with me and book a call with me and I will tell you my perspective what I would do if I were in your situation.
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