The State Department just released its Visa Bulletin for May, and the cut-off date advanced to September 22, 2005 for immigrant visas under the second preference/China category.
Since A's second preference priority date is September 15, 2005, her priority date will be reached in May. The CIS can approve her applications for adjustment of status (forms I-485) during the month of May, although there is no guarantee that that agency will move quickly to do so. The CIS is supposed to perform "sweeps" of their system in order to pull up cases once the priority date has been reached. Before A's cases can be approved, the CIS must schedule biometrics appointments in order to update the security clearances/background checks for their cases. I will contact you as soon as I receive any correspondence from the CIS.
More news regarding A's case! I just received e-mail notification that the CIS has approved A's application for advance parole (see e-mail below). We should receive her original advance parole document in the mail within the next week.
As I mentioned in an e-mail earlier today, A's priority date will be reached in May and the CIS could approve her application for adjustment of status ("green card" case) next month. Unless A wants to try to delay CIS action on her pending adjustment of status case, it would not be a good idea for her to travel outside the U.S. next month.
我该怎么办?事实上我已经订好了5月12号的机票(3月份就订了)。我是不是还要到local的immogration office去申请一个早点的Biometrics appointments？
干等着真不是容易的事。