The State Department has released the Visa Bulletin for January 2015.

Here are the priority dates for family-based visas.

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.

Once again we saw advancement in each priority date category.

The F1 category saw a three week advancement for China, India and other countries. There was also a one month advancement for Mexico. The Philippines saw a one week advancement.

The F2A category saw a five week advancement for China, India, and other countries. There was also a seven week advancement for Mexico and a five week advancement for the Philippines.

The F2B category saw an advancement from 2/22/08 to 4/1/2008 for China, India, and other countries. There was a month advancement for Mexico and a two week advancement for the Philippines.

There was an advancement of one week for China, India, and other countries in the F3 category. There was a month advancement for Mexico and a three week advancement for the Philippines.

Finally, in the F4 category, there was a month advancement for China, India, and other countries. A three week advancement for Mexico and a six week advancement for the Philippines.

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.

There was a one month advancement in the EB-2 category for China.

There was also a five month advancement in the EB-3 category for Mexico and the Philippines. There was also a nine month advancement in the EB-3 category for China.