First: 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.
FINAL ACTION DATES FOR EMPLOYMENT-BASED PREFERENCE CASES
Employment-based | All Charge- ability Areas Except Those Listed |
CHINA- mainland born |
EL SALVADOR GUATEMALA HONDURAS |
INDIA | MEXICO | PHILIPPINES |
1st | C | C | C | C | C | C |
2nd | C | 22SEP12 | C | 01FEB08 | C | C |
3rd | 01JUL16 | 01JUL13 | 01JUL16 | 15MAR05 | 01JUL16 | 01JUN11 |
Other Workers | 01JUL16 | 01NOV05 | 01JUL16 | 15MAR05 | 01JUL16 | 01JUN11 |
4th | C | C | 15JUL15 | C | 15JUL15 | C |
Certain Religious Workers | C | C | 15JUL15 | C | 15JUL15 | C |
5th Non-Regional Center (C5 and T5) |
C | 22MAR14 | C | C | C | C |
5th Regional Center (I5 and R5) |
C | 22MAR14 | C | C | C | C |
DATES FOR FILING OF EMPLOYMENT-BASED VISA APPLICATIONS
Employment-based | All Chargeability Areas Except Those Listed |
CHINA- mainland born |
INDIA | MEXICO | PHILIPPINES |
1st | C | C | C | C | C |
2nd | C | 01MAR13 | 22APR09 | C | C |
3rd | C | 01MAY14 | 01JUL05 | C | 01SEP13 |
Other Workers | C | 01AUG09 | 01JUL05 | C | 01SEP13 |
4th | C | C | C | C | C |
Certain Religious Workers | C | C | C | C | C |
5th Non-Regional Center (C5 and T5) |
C | 15JUN14 | C | C | C |
5th Regional Center (I5 and R5) |
C | 15JUN14 | C | C | C |