The February 2015 Visa Bulletin continues the advancement trend that we saw both in December and January.

Family-Based

As a reminder, the categories for Green Card petitions are as follows:

• F1: The unmarried sons and daughters of U.S. citizens.
• F2A: Spouses and Children of LPRs.
• F2B: Unmarried Adult Children of LPRs.
• F3: Married sons and daughters of U.S. citizens.
• F4: Brothers and sisters of adult U.S. citizens.

Each and every category saw an advancement of their priority dates.

Employment-Based

The priority dates for employment-based visa are organized into the following categories:

• EB-1: Priority workers with extraordinary abilities, outstanding professors or researchers, and executives or mangers who have transferred to the U.S.
• EB-2: Individuals with advance degrees, exceptional abilities, or holding a national interest waivers.
• EB-3: Skilled workers, professionals, and others who don’t qualify for EB-1 or EB-2.
• EB-4: Religious workers, broadcasters, Iraq/Afghan translators, Iraqis who have assisted the United States, physicians, Armed forces members, Panama Canal Zone employees, Retired NATO-6 employees, spouses and children of deceased NATO-6 employees.
• EB-5: Investors who are investing in a new commercial enterprise.

The EB-2 for China moved up about six weeks. That category also saw and advancement of six months for India.

There was also advancement across the board for the EB-3 category.