Good News: The Visa Waiting List Dropped 171,000 Between 2018 and 2019
By David North on December 31, 2020
We keep hearing of the long waiting lists for some migration applicants, notably from India and China, but somehow the news that the total waiting lists for immigration visas actually dropped by more than 171,000 between November 1, 2018 and November 1, 2019, has yet to be reported in the media.
Further substantial decreases in the following 12 months should be expected, given the impact of Covid-19, but the State Department won’t tell us about them for another year, as the reporting is slow.
The size of the waiting lists has been seized upon by those wanting to expand migration by members of Congress, as my colleague Jessica Vaughan has previously reported.
Since this is in the immigration field, things are more complicated than the decline of the number of visa waiters on a single list. There are eleven sub-lists, as we will detail later; most of the decline comes in five of the six chain migration categories of family preferences, as well as in the EB-5 (immigrant investors) class. There were slight increases in the other employment-based categories and a large one in the second family category (spouses and children of green card holders).
https://cis.org/North/Good-News-Visa-Waiting-List-Dropped-171000-Between-2018-and-2019
