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United States Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs

VISA BULLETIN

012703387# 4

Number 32

Volume VI

Washington, D.C

IMMIGRANT NUMBERS FOR APRIL 1990

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AORY NUMBERS

This bulletin summarizes the availability of immigrant numbers & April. Consular officers are required to report to the Department o documentarily qualified applicants for numerically limited visas; the Immigration and Naturalization Service reports applicants for adjustment status. Allocations were made, to the extent possible under the numerica. limitations, for the demand received by March 8th in the chronological order of the reported priority dates. If the demand could not be satisfied within the statutory or regulatory limits, the category or foreign state or dependent area in which demand was excessive was deemed oversubscribed. The cut-off date for an oversubscribed category is the priority date of the first applicant who could not be reached within the statutory or regulatory limits. Only applicants who have a priority date earlier than the cut-off date may be allotted a number. Immediately that it becomes necessary, during the monthly allocation process, to recede a cut-off date, supplemental requests for numbers will be honored only if the priority date falls within the new cut-off date.

2. Section 201(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) sets an annual limitation of 270,000 for immigrants in the preference/nonpreference classes. Section 202 prescribes that no more than 20,000 of this limitat.on may be made available in a fiscal year to applicants chargeable to any single foreign state; the limitation for a colony or dependent area is set at 5,000.

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Section 203 (a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended,

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Firs

16 preference classes for allotment of immigrant visas as follows:

ference (unmarried sons and daughters of U.S. citizens, and their chi. ..): 20% of the overall annual limitation in any fiscal year:

Second preference (spouses and unmarried sons and daughters of aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence, and their children); 26% of the overall limitation, plus any numbers not required for first preference,

Third preference (members of the professions or persons of exceptional ability in the sciences and arts, spouses and children): 10% of the overall limitation;

Fourth preference (married sons and daughters of U.S. citizens, and thair spouses and children): 10% of the overall limitation, plus any numbers not required by the first three preference catagories;

Fifth preference (brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens 21 years of age or over, and their spouses and children): 24% of the overall limitation, plus any numbers not required by the first four preference categories;

Sixth preference (skilled and unskilled workers in short supply, and their spouses and children): 10% of the overall limitation:

Nonpreference (other immigrants):

Numbers not required by the six preferences.