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4.

Section 203 (b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act provides that visas be given to applicants in order of preference classes. However, Section 202(e) of the Act provides that, whenever the maximum number of visas has been made available to natives of a foreign state or dependent area in any fiscal year, in the next following fiscal year visas will be made available by applying the preference limitations to the foreign state (20,000) or dependent area (5.000) limitation. The provisions of Section 202(e) apply at present to the following chargeability areas: CHINA-mainland born, INDIA, KOREA, MEXICO,

PHILIPPINES, and HONG KONG.

5. On the chart below the listing of a date under any class indicates that the class is oversubscribed (See paragraph lj; "C" means current, 1.e., the numbers are available for all qualified applicants; and "U" means unavaila: i.e.. that no numbers are available.

CHARGEABILITY

PREFERENCE

1st

2nd

3rd

ດ

C

4th

5th

6th

05-15-88 02-01-69 09-15-89 09-01-82 12-15-86

NONPRE

ERENCI

U

ALL CHARGE-

ABILITY AREAS

EXCEPT THOSE

LISTED BELOW

CHINA-mainland born C

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

C

U

05-15-88 02-01-89 09-15-89 03-26-82 12-15-86

01-22-87 U

U

U

U

INDIA

C

U

KOREA

U

MEXICO

***

PHILIPPINES

U

U

U

리

05-15-88 08-01-88 09-15-89 04-28-82 12-15-86

05-15-88 02-01-89 09-15-89 09-01-82 07-22-86

10-15-89 05-22-80 02-01-89 11-08-81 09-19-78 05-15-86

03-08-84 01-01-83 08-08-73 07-22-81 02-16-77 08-08-85

05-15-88 01-15-89 09-15-89 09-25-80 12-15-86 "Man.

C 8 June 84 15 Jun 1899 15 Sep 89 7 Oct 80

8 Jam 877 The Department of State has available a recorded message with visa availability information which can be heard at: (area code 202) 647-0508. This recording will be updated in the middle of each month with information on cut-off dates for the following month.

HONG KONG

B. PANAMA CANAL NUMBERS

The Panama Canal Act of 1979 (PL 96-70) provides for the admission as special immigrants under subparagraphs (E), (F) and (G) of section 101(a) (27) of the INA of up to 15,000 former employees of the Panama Canal Company or Canal Zone Government, at the rate of no more than 5,000 in any fiscal year. At the present time visas are available to qualified applicants on a "current" basis.

C.

NONPREFERENCE (NP-5) NUMBERS

For APRIL, nonpreference numbers in the NP-5 category have been made available to qualified immigrants chargeable to all "adversely affected" areas with priority dates earlier than:

11-17-89--12:01 A.M.

The priority date of an NP-5 case is the basis for the NP-5 case number; time as well as day of case registration is indicated. In case number format, the

891117-0001-0000.

above cut-off date is:

CA/VO - March 8, 1990