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        and not consumed,  similarly  one visa  the Bulletin shows that numbers for    Once the filing dates advance and  ily-based backlogs for years or even
        can also be left intact rather than used  visa applicants in his or her category  result  in  adjustment  of  status  filings,  decades.  Upon  filing  adjustment  of
        by a noncitizen beneficiary.  So long as  are current) (“Final Action Date”).  the new administration cannot reverse  status applications, they would be able
        there is one visa kept available, it would  An immigrant visa is also considered  course on January 20, 2025. The visa  to apply for an EAD and  travel permis-
        provide a legal basis for an I-485 filing  available for submission of the I-485  bulletin for January 2025 would have  sion, exercise job portability, and their
        under a DFF, and this would be con-  application based  on a provision-  to  be  respected  until  the  end  of  the  children  would  be  protected  under
        sistent with INA 245(a)(3) as well as 8  al priority date (“Dates for Filing”)  month. In the July 2007 visa bulletin,  the Child Status Protection Act while
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        CFR 245.1(g)(1).                  without reference to the Final Action  the EB-1, EB-2, and EB-3 categories  waiting in the backlogs for permanent
            This  same  logic  can  also  be  ex-  Date. No provisional submission can  were all initially “current”, but the De-  residence.  Advancing  the  filing  dates
        tended to beneficiaries of family-based  be undertaken absent prior approval  partment of State attempted to revise  to current should not be viewed as a
        I-130 petitions. The Biden administra-  of the visa petition and only if all vi-  the visa bulletin a few days later to in-  partisan move by a lame duck demo-
        tion  need  only  move  the  filing  dates  sas in the preference category have  dicate that far fewer visas were avail-  cratic presidential administration, but
        to current or close to current with an  not been exhausted in the fiscal year.  able. This mid-month change resulted  as  a  move  that  would  greatly  benefit
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        explanation in the January 2025 Visa  Final adjudication only occurs when  in threatened lawsuits from immigra-  beneficiaries  of  I-130  and  I-140  peti-
        Bulletin or through an accompanying  there is a current Final Action Date.  tion advocacy groups, and eligible ap-  tions employed in corporate America,
        USCIS  policy memo.  However, if  it  An immigrant visa is also considered  plicants were allowed until August 17,  including at companies who heads are
        needs to do this through rulemaking,  immediately available if the applicant  2007  to  file  based  on  the  “current”  closely aligned with Trump such as Elon
        8 CFR 245.1(g)(1) could be easily  establishes  eligibility  for  the  benefits  dates.               Musk’s Tesla, Space X and X.com.
        amended (shown in bold) through an  of Public Law 101-238. Information   Advancing  the  filing  dates  would
        Interim Final Rule to expand the defi-  concerning the immediate availability  be Biden’s last, best gift to the back-  *Kaitlyn Box is a Senior Associate at
        nition of visa availability:      of an immigrant visa may be obtained  logged community, many of whom are   Cyrus D. Mehta & Partners PLLC.
            An alien is ineligible for the ben-  at any Service office.     stuck in the  employment- and fam-
        efits of section 245 of the Act unless                                          Start Watching IndiaLife TV  24 Hours LIVE
        an immigrant visa is immediately   ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
        available to him or her at the time the   Cyrus D. Mehta, a graduate of Cambridge University and Columbia Law School, is the Managing Partner of Cyrus D. Mehta &
        application is filed. If the applicant is   Partners PLLC in New York City. Mr. Mehta is a member of AILA’s Administrative Litigation Task Force; AILA’s EB-5 Committee;
        a preference alien, the current De-  former chair of AILA’s Ethics Committee; special counsel on immigration matters to the Departmental Disciplinary Committee,
        partment of State Bureau of Consular  Appellate Division, First Department, New York; member of the ABA Commission on Immigration; board member of Volunteers
        Affairs Visa Bulletin will be consulted  for Legal Services and board member of New York Immigration Coalition.  Mr. Mehta is the former chair of the Board of Trustees
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        to determine whether an immigrant  of the American Immigration Council and former chair of the Committee on Immigration and Nationality Law of the New York
        visa is immediately available. An im-  City Bar Association. He is a frequent speaker and writer on various immigration-related issues, including on ethics, and is also an
        migrant visa is considered available   adjunct professor of law at Brooklyn Law School, where he teaches a course entitled Immigration and Work.  Mr. Mehta received
        for accepting and processing the ap-  the AILA 2018 Edith Lowenstein Memorial Award for advancing the practice of immigration law and the AILA 2011 Michael
        plication Form I-485 [if] the prefer-  Maggio Memorial Award for his outstanding efforts in providing pro bono representation in the immigration field. He has also
        ence category applicant has a priority
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        date on the waiting list which is earlier   received two AILA Presidential Commendations in 2010 and 2016.  Mr. Mehta is ranked among the most highly regarded lawyers
        than the date shown in the Bulletin (or   in North America by Who’s Who Legal – Corporate Immigration Law 2019 and is also ranked in Chambers USA and Chambers
                                          Global 2019 in immigration law, among other rankings.

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