The most significant movement in the EB (employment-based) Visa Bulletin for July 2010 is that the India EB-2 classification for professionals with Advanced Degrees or persons of Exceptional Ability advanced 8 months – from February 1, 2005 to October 1, 2005.

Further, the Department of State released some “best case scenario” predictions of where the Visa Bulletin dates might be at the end of fiscal year 2011,  (as of October 1, 2010) as follows:

Employment First: Current
Employment Second:  China and India: March or April 2006

Employment Third:

Worldwide: June through September 2004
China: October through December 2003
India: February 2002
Mexico: Unavailable
Philippines: June through September 2004

If this comes to pass, these predictions represent significant movement forward for many of the categories. We link to the July Bulletin here, and will continue to keep you updated.

Here is the current bulletin for June.  We additionally link to one of our earlier Immigration Solutions articles that explains how to interpret the Visa Bulletin.