why family based f4 visa of India is 2 years behind family based f4 visa of china?

[ajo2019]

As per august bulletin 2019 family based f4 category of china mainland is 08MAR07
and family based f4 category of India is 22MAY05
Why there is so much of gap?

[ajo2019]

rest all family based f categories of India and China are almost the same, so I was curious to know about it.

[newacct]

It seems you are looking at the Dates for Filing chart for September 2019. Mainland China has the same date as most countries, whereas India has a date that is further behind (along with Mexico and the Philippines). I believe that is because India, Mexico, and the Philippines have hit the 7% per country cap in this category, whereas Mainland China has not.

[ajo2019]

yes I was looking at the dates for filing and I was surprised because china has lot of population so how possible that it has same date as most countries and not hit that 7% per country cap.

[newacct]

yes I was looking at the dates for filing and I was surprised because china has lot of population so how possible that it has same date as most countries and not hit that 7% per country cap.

Actually Mainland China does not currently hit the 7% cap in any family-based category. Maybe there are fewer close relative relationships in China overall due to the one-child policy.

[ajo2019]

Actually Mainland China does not currently hit the 7% cap in any family-based category. Maybe there are fewer close relative relationships in China overall due to the one-child policy.

could be the reason ? but one child policy was introduced long back in 1979 one child policy in china which was relaxed during 2013.
just 2-3 years back f4 category dates of mainland China was same as f4 category dates of India.
So just wondering what changed in 2-3 years.

[newacct]

could be the reason ? but one child policy was introduced long back in 1979 one child policy in china which was relaxed during 2013.
just 2-3 years back f4 category dates of mainland China was same as f4 category dates of India.
So just wondering what changed in 2-3 years.

Well that's because 2-3 years ago India did not hit the per country cap in F4. So the question is, why are there more sibling petitions for people born in India now?

[ajo2019]

ok thank you I understand now in short maybe more petitions are filed for India then China currently so there is gap in F4 category.