Clarke84
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Final action date is still Sept 2015. You have not been skipped. There's just been no movement for 2 years.
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Legally USCIS cannot issue more visas to DR if they cross the 7%. These are the limits set by Congress. USCIS can't decide to not enforce these rules. I was listening to the Charlie Oppenheim chat about the latest bulletin, and he thought the fact that F2B did not retrogress for the entire year is good news for forward movement in the next few months. This should mean that they've gotten through most or all of the backlog created by covid. I also saw a post in reddit of an F2B with PD of October 2016 having an interview scheduled.
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We'll have a better idea once they publish the last few months visa issuance. Last month that was published was June.
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Poster's daughter was doing AOS, so not dealing with NVC. Poster did end up deleting original post after multiple people questioned her story...so maybe she was being untruthful.
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Probably, but there are cases (though rare) were USCIS approved greencards when they should not have...only to revoke later or for the issue to come up when person tries to naturalize. https://www.rnlawgroup.com/surprising-twist-i-485-approved-without-a-current-priority-date-what-steps-should-be-taken/
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Not the reason in this case. Final Action Date for F2B has never moved to Nov 2016.
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Over on r/USCIS on reddit, someone posted that her daughter's green card (F2B) was approved with a PD of November 2016???? I know that's not technically possible as final action date is 9/2015. Either person is mistaken on their PD or the green card was approved when it should not have been.
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September Visa Bulletin out...no movement and no retrogression (so small positive). No threat of future retrogression either.
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F2B did have a filing action date movement last year. Around July 2022 (which allowed me to file my I485 with a PD of December 2016). I had an RFE for my medical in April and was just approved for my combo card the day my RFe was received. So it looks like they do expect final action date movement (at least I hope so!). While visa issuance is back to pre-pandemic levels, at least for F2B - they haven’t gotten through the backlog caused by it. There’s not much we can do about it besides maybe bring it up to your Congress person or Senator.
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I don't see movement until Oct/Nov (at the earliest), but as long as DR is part of ROW then this a good thing! We need them to get through the backlog or final action date will never move.
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They still affect the rest of world in terms on total F2B visas issued - but they have a separate PD as needed. So the affect is less.
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I've been lurking for a few weeks and finally decided to make an account. I do agree how frustrating it is that so many of the F2Bs are going to DR. Though we do have to remember that all those people do have a PD prior to the Final Action Date, so one way or the other we have to get through this DR backlog before there can be any movement. I found this chart from FY 2022 which shows that DR does indeed have the second highest backlog for F2B. If this trend continues I hope it will be given it's own category. I am not sure how and when this is decided.
