The November 2020 visa bulletin was (finally) issued today and can be found by clicking here.

The good news is that the EB-3 Other Workers category for less-skilled positions remains current for all but two countries. This means U.S. employers no longer will face the additional waiting times we have seen in the past two years when hiring through this program. While no one would confuse this multi-step process with being “fast,” the lack of additional wait times for visa availability is a big benefit. In particular, the influx of unused family visas at the start of the government’s fiscal year eradicated backlogs for people born in Philippines, which has historically been a big source for U.S. employers in industries like home health, facilities services, trucking, etc.

In other categories, EB-1 and EB-2 both advanced for China and India (they are current for all other countries) and EB-5 did not move, after some recent activity.

Overall, the carryover of unused family-based immigration visas from last year really pushed things forward in several categories.