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galo2099·

What 7 year wait? I got mine in 10 months.

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You must not be from China or India then.

Or Mexico or the Philippines or Vietnam or Pakistan or a host of other countries on 6+ year immigrant queues.

Just to clarify the item of confusion.

EB2 green card visa wait times: only China and India (for now)

EB3 green card wait times: Mexico, Phillipines and other countries

I think most folks may not realized that there are a variety of green card paths, even within the employment category, and the requirements for EB1, EB2 and EB3 are completely different.

Hmmm... the only countries that have a major backlog in employment-based green cards are China and India.

Philippines has a backlog for family-based green cards.

Unless they have an advanced degree (I believe a PhD, or at the very least a Masters), foreign workers, even highly paid silicon valley software engineers fall under the EB-3 category, which has a further backlog than that. I have friends with Filipino passports working at Google/MS/etc for 4+ years and still waiting on movement on their green card applications.

I stand corrected! Wow! I used to check the State Department's visa bulletin all the time when I was waiting for my green card. Back then China and India were the only countries with backlogs.

Looking at the current bulletin.[1] It now looks like China, India, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and the Philippines all have some backlog for EB-3.

Yikes! However, Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras only have a ~4 month backlog.

[1]https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/bul...

Only India have China have significant employment based immigrant queues. Some of the other countries you mentioned are severely backlogged in the family based categories.

10 months from H1B not L1A?

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