Cut-off dates have jumped in May 2010 visa bulletin

[visjig]

Hi All,

April 2010 visa bulletin has cut off date of 01 June 2006 for Family 2A category and now the May 2010 visa bulletin has cut off date of 01 Dec 2006!!!

So the cut off date has moved by 6 months in a period of one month!!!!! Very surprising. Has anyone out there heard anything about this surprising jump...... have they recruited more staff or what.

[immihelp]

Don't worry about how or why it is happening. Be happy.

[visjig]

thanks for the reply admin.

i am very happy that it moved 6 months in a month of time. my priority date is 29 july 2008. so im very happy. hope this trend continues.

[Senojlm2]

F2A Jump

It has nothing to do with staff--never has, never will. Visa Bulletin lines move on the basis of the number of applicants in the lines. The lines have to be adjusted occasionally, due to different feeder systems (over-seas processing vs. applicants here in the U.S.; or naturalizing petitioners moving beneficiaries from F2B to F1; marrying beneficiaries moving from F1 to F3, etc.) But fundamentally, lines move based on the number of available visas and the number of waiting applicants. Supply & demand. Nothing more.

The F2A line for non-Mexican countries should continue to move much more rapidly now that Mexico is NOT using all the 50,000 unrestricted visas in this category. (You can see this by reading the F2A footnote and looking at the difference between the Mexico cut off in this category and the cut off for the rest of the world. The difference has dropped to less than 6 months. That means more of the 50,000 unrestricted visas are available for other countries).

[visjig]

Wow

It has nothing to do with staff--never has, never will. Visa Bulletin lines move on the basis of the number of applicants in the lines. The lines have to be adjusted occasionally, due to different feeder systems (over-seas processing vs. applicants here in the U.S.; or naturalizing petitioners moving beneficiaries from F2B to F1; marrying beneficiaries moving from F1 to F3, etc.) But fundamentally, lines move based on the number of available visas and the number of waiting applicants. Supply & demand. Nothing more.

The F2A line for non-Mexican countries should continue to move much more rapidly now that Mexico is NOT using all the 50,000 unrestricted visas in this category. (You can see this by reading the F2A footnote and looking at the difference between the Mexico cut off in this category and the cut off for the rest of the world. The difference has dropped to less than 6 months. That means more of the 50,000 unrestricted visas are available for other countries).

Thanks very much for your detailed and indepth reply. You have a very excellent knowledge about dicphering the visa bulletin. Let us know if you know why is Mexico not using its visa allocation. Just general knowlege. I am just happy that it is moving.......................