Visa Bulletin

Today marks six months to the day I recieved my siblings' petitions approvals. I still haven't heard anything from the NVC.

I've read as many forums as I could find on siblings petitions and the common thread seems to be that it is a ten to twelve-year process.

Two reasons keep me optimistic though:

1). The visa bulletin (p.3) states that:

"The annual per-country limitation of 7% is a cap, which visa issuances to any single country may not exceed. Applicants compete for visas primarily on a worldwide basis. The country limitation serves to avoid monopolization of virtually all the annual limitation by applicants from only a few countries."

2). Most of the forum threads are placed by individuals from over-subscribed countries. And based on my reading of the visa bulletin, I understand that highly populated countries set the curve for the visa number waiting list. The country and preference category cap therefore mean that migrants from countries with a significantly lower migrant population in U.S. may have relatively short waiting times.

China(mainland born),India, Mexico and Philippines are currently oversubscribed.