Insights from consular visas issued in FY2025 Q1
February 13, 2025 5 Comments
Department of State has also been updating its data, with monthly immigrant visa issuance reports now published for the first quarter of FY2025 (October, November, and December 2024). While my previous post focused on adjustment of status visas so far this year, the DOS numbers show what’s been happening with consular processing. As illustrated in the summary table below, DOS did great work with Unreserved visa issuance in the first quarter, managing to issue 40% of Unreserved visas available for the year. Chinese applicants particularly benefited from this efficiency. I’m also delighted to announce, for the first time, visas issued in almost every new post-RIA category (only missing infrastructure). However, the set-aside numbers are low. Rural and high unemployment visa issuance at consulates in the first quarter barely reached 1% of visas available this year. With AOS numbers apparently low so far as well, this makes me question whether/when FY2025 limits in those categories could possibly be reached. If this low volume continued, it would mean deferring set-aside retrogression in the visa bulletin (giving more “C” months for filing AOS), wasting some FY2025 set-aside visas, and pushing more of the existing backlog into future years. I trust that we’ll see much higher issuance numbers in coming monthly reports, to get as many set-aside applicants as possible into FY25’s unusually high visa limits.
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Hi All
My PD is March 2022(Pre-RIA & Direct), and I received my RFE in July 2024. Responded in October 2024.
I received my approval TODAY(Feb, 2025).
This site helped me to keep myself updated . I want to thank Suzanne for the hard work and post many great materials here.
Question for experienced folks, I am in land, how long do you think it takes to get my green card?
Wow… congrats havijuser
I assume your is India as well.
Mine was March 10 direct.
RFE Aug 2024 & response Nov 2024
Lawfully AI estimate 117 days processing between response to decision.
Can I assume your online status change to received RFE around Oct 24th?
Also let me know your PD day.
Ram,
No. I recommend to read it again since my note has all the information to answer your questions.
By the way, as per USCIS, you are one of the 2 lucky applications who got approved on 14th. So far the pattern is majority of I-526 applications decision made on Fridays.
If you received “Response to USCIS RFE was received”, it’s current processing time is 119 days. There are currently 21 I-526 applications in this status till March 2022.
So hopefully this will help, good luck to everyone currently waiting 🙂