If you are interested in knowing how the dates in the Visa Bulletin will advance or retrogress in the future, we are thrilled to tell you about the best way to do so, on the State Department’s new program entitled Chats with Charlie.
The Visa Bulletin is published on a monthly basis by the State Department. It shows the backlogs for persons who have been sponsored for green cards under the employment-based (EB), family-based (FB) and diversity lottery categories.
There are millions of persons waiting in line for EB and FB green cards, and the wait times vary depending on their EB/FB category and their country of birth.
Sometimes the dates in the Visa Bulletin move forward very slightly, sometimes they advance months at a time and other times they move backwards.
For persons waiting in line, it is important to know which way the dates in their category are going to move, and how quickly. Chats with Charlie will be a great source of information.
A few years ago, Charlie Oppenheim of the State Department, the person who calculates the dates on the Visa Bulletin each month, started meeting with the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), and answering questions about how he expected the dates of each category would move in the future.
