USC unmarried son or daughter age 21 or older

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It's hard to say how long you'll have to wait. Cutoff dates don't always advance by one month in every new visa bulletin. Sometimes they advance faster, sometimes slower. It depends on how many visa numbers have been used. After the recession began there was a dramatic acceleration in the cutoff dates for most family preference visa categories as a lot of people with current priority dates weren't applying for visas. After the economy appeared to have stabilized, and with the beginning of the new federal fiscal year, the cutoff dates retrogressed, and the waiting times increased again. It's hard to predict what's going to happen in the future.

You don't have much of a choice. There won't be a visa number available for you until your priority date is current. Right now, that looks like another 4 1/2 years.

Thank you Jim ,for me is weird how the same category visa for permanent resident is current date and for us citizen is only 2004

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Thank you Jim ,for me is weird how the same category visa for permanent resident is current date and for us citizen is only 2004

I don't know where you're seeing that. The FB1 category is for unmarried adult sons and daughters of US citizens. The FB2B category is for unmarried adult sons and daughters of permanent residents. Except for the Philippines, the FB1 category has a later cutoff date than the FB2B category. The Philippines is different because they are heavily oversubscribed. No single country can receive more than 7% of the total in any visa category. The Philippines is oversubscribed in every category except FB2A, and they are more oversubscribed for FB1 than they are for FB2B, which is why there's a disparity in the dates. You'll see the situation is reversed in Mexico.

There are no family preference visa categories that have a cutoff date which is current. You might be looking at the employment visa categories. All family preference visa categories, including those for relatives of US citizens and permanent residents, are in the first chart on the visa bulletin. The second chart are employment based visa categories.

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Yes the F1 is a student visa, your daughter falls in the family immigration Category F1, unmarried child over 21 of a US citizen. There are only a limited number of visas in each family category other than immediate relative and the different categories are denoted as F1, F2A, F2B, etc. with different wait times for each category.

The link Aleful gave you was for the current visa bulletin showing what Priority date (usually found on the receipt from USCIS) they are processing for that month. When her priority date comes close to being current then processing of the petition will resume, until then there is nothing to do.

THE CORRECT THING IS FB1 BUT PEOPLE JUST SAY F1 FOR SHORT...FB1 MEANS FAMILY BASED

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THE CORRECT THING IS FB1 BUT PEOPLE JUST SAY F1 FOR SHORT...FB1 MEANS FAMILY BASED

you are right mr_longawaiting , i wish my category to be anything which priority date is current