Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by zzz95 2527 days ago
Where did you see that? USCIS in its bulletins never releases the number of years only the year it is processing. If you extrapolate the EB-1 wait for Indians, it is closer to 9 years, but most people are in EB-2/3 which is 50yrs out.
1 comments

The August bulletin currently lists April 2010 for India EB-3 (October 2017 for EB-1).

If you go back through the last few years of bulletins, this 9 year wait has been relatively stable. Unless you believe there's been a massive spike in applicants in the past few years, there's no reason to believe the current wait for new applicants is 50 or 70 years.

I don't think that's quite right. Have a look at Indian EB-2 . The August 2014 bulletin [2] lists the current year as 22JAN09 which has moved to 02MAY09 in the August 2019 bulletin [1]. This means that in the last 5 years, they have moved from Jan09 -> May09. Very stable!

[1]https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/v...

[2]https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/v...