这是我订阅的SHUSTERMAN'S IMMIGRATION 电子UPDATE的摘选,是上周律师给国务院官员打电话的一部分内容:
Last week, we called the State Department in Washington, D.C. and asked a few pertinent questions. The official that I spoke to asked that I not use her surname, but what follows is a summary version of our conversation:
Carl: Does the fact that the employment-based categories are "current" in the July Visa Bulletin mean that we can EB-1, EB-2 and EB-3 petitions along with applications for adjustment of status during the entire month of July?
DOS Official (Let's call her "Condi"): Probably not. It's hard to get the USCIS to estimate how many visa numbers are left until the end of the fiscal year which ends on September 30th. Therefore, we may have to revise the July Visa Bulletin to cut off new adjustment applications sometime before the middle of July.
Carl: Will this revision affect people from some countries more than others?
Condi: Yes. Persons born in India, mainland China and Mexico will be most affected. Persons born in the Philippines are probably better off than others since the recapture of 50,000 immigrant visas for RNs, PTs and family members in 2005 and 2006 cleared up some of the Filipino backlog.
Carl: Thanks for the advice, Condi. I think that you are going to see a lot of adjustment applications from our law office when you come to work on July 2nd. Just wanted to warn you!
Can USCIS stop accepting adjustment applications in spite of the Visa Bulletin? No one is sure.
AILA is warning members that the State Department may issue a revised July 2007 Visa Bulletin as early as Tuesday, July 3 or even on Monday, July 2! If this occurs, the situation could be a summer rerun of the H-1B debacle which occurred just after April Fool's Day earlier this year.
We do not want to appear smug, but we are sleeping well tonight because our adjustment applications were ted to the government over the weekend. We hope yours were as well.