This bulletin summarizes the availability of immigrant numbers during April.
开宗明义,visa bulletin是关于4月份’ the availability of immigrant numbers’
,也就
是关于4月的绿卡核发。
Consular officers are required to report to the Department of State
documentarily qualified applicants for numerically limited visas; the Bureau
of Citizenship and Immigration Services in the Department of Homeland
Security reports applicants for adjustment of status.
非常明确,uscis汇报‘applicants for adjustment of status’,也就是有多少
demand,也
就是有多少485等着绿卡号。再看下句:
Allocations were made, to the extent possible under the numerical
limitations, for the demand received by March 8th in the chronological order
of the reported priority dates.
Uscis必须汇报3月8号前收到的demand,也就是说,4月的visa bulletin是根据3月8号
前收到的
485申请决定的。显然,这个visa bulletin不是说pd前的人可以交485,而是说pd前的
人可以拿到
绿卡号。这个cut off date前的人的485应该在3月8号之前提交。
If the demand could not be satisfied within the statutory or regulatory
limits, the category or foreign state in which demand was excessive was
deemed oversubscribed.
如果3月8号前某一类绿卡收到的485超过了4月可用绿卡号码,这类申请被认为过量。
The cut-off date for an oversubscribed category is the priority date of the
first applicant who could not be reached within the numerical limits.
过量的那类申请的cut off date就是正好被可用绿卡号可覆盖极限之外的那个申请人的
pd。这里的
applicant,结合上文,应该就是applicant for adjustment of status,也就是485申请
人。
Only applicants who have a priority date earlier than the cut-off date may
be allotted a number.
只有那些pd早于cut off date的(485)申请人才可以得到绿卡号码。
Immediately that it becomes necessary during the monthly allocation process
to retrogress a cut-off date, supplemental requests for numbers will be
honored only if the priority date falls within the new cut-off date which
has been announced in this bulletin.
如果在这个每月分配的过程中出现必须反推cut-off date的情况,只有当(485)申请
人的pd落在
新的(倒退后的)cut-off date情况下才能够得到号码。
综上所述,严格按照visa bullein的说法,这个cut-off date是关于绿卡号码分配的期
限,而不
是能否递交485的期限。更确切地说,绿卡号码的分配取决于现有的485申请数量。如果
现有的485多
于可用绿卡号码,那么就会设定一个cut-off date,否则,这个cut-off就应该是
current. 上面
的这些文字没有在任何地方限制对485的递交。