The latest Visa Bulletin summarizes the availability of immigrant numbers for May 2015, and the cut-off of priority date has moved back to July 1, 2007. Ouch.
That's a shocking backwards of 7 years and 3 months from April 2015 Visa Bulletin which posted October 1, 2014 cut-off date. Here's the full table for Employment Based Category:
| Employment- Based | All Chargeability Areas Except Those Listed | CHINA - mainland born | INDIA | MEXICO | PHILIPPINES |
| 1st | C | C | C | C | C |
| 2nd | C | 01JUN12 | 15APR08 | C | C |
| 3rd | 01JAN15 | 01MAY11 | 15JAN04 | 01JAN15 | 01JUL07 |
| Other Workers | 01JAN15 | 15NOV05 | 15JAN04 | 01JAN15 | 01JUL07 |
| 4th | C | C | C | C | C |
| Certain Religious Workers | C | C | C | C | C |
| 5th Targeted Employment Areas/ Regional Centers and Pilot Programs | C | 01MAY13 | C | C | C |
US Department of State explained that the EB3 Philippine visa retrogression is due to application/cases filed in previous months when they rapidly advanced the processing.
"This cut-off date had also been advanced very rapidly in an effort to generate sufficient demand to fully utilize all available numbers. The current rate of increase in demand has required the retrogression of this cut-off date for the month of May, in an attempt to hold number use within the annual limit for this preference category."
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