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The VISA newsletter for February 2009 is out now and comes with a host of intriguing issues. In the Family Sponsored Preferences category, start with the first preference, which involves the unmarried sons and daughters of citizens; the ceiling has been set at 23,400. Second preference – here comes the flood in comparison – spouses and unmarried sons and sons and daughters of permanent residents = 114,200. The third preference includes married sons and daughters of citizens, and that number is also 23,400, which seems arbitrary. The fourth preference consists of brothers and sisters of adult citizens, a number that seems more generous at 65,000.
For employment-based preferences, suffice it to say that the percentage is identical for priority workers, members of professions with advanced degrees, people with exceptional abilities, skilled workers, professionals and other workers: 28.6% of the global level of employment-based preferences.
In a category never clearly delineated, it appears that “certain special immigrants”, whoever they are, will only be able to enter the United States at 7.1% of the world level, the same as the most generally recognized job creation category. which includes no less than 3,000 of which number will be “set aside” for investors in a specific rural or high-unemployment area, which in the American economic climate of early 2009 could be virtually any rural area.
Some countries are considered to be “oversubscribed” by the US government which admits paid powers of attorney. Among them are China (mainland-born, as Taiwanese people seem much more welcome), India, Mexico, and the Philippines. We probably won’t see Pakistan on the oversubscribed list anytime soon; Now that I think about it, it’s not on any preferred immigration list.
The diversity immigrant quota seems quite welcoming, except in Bangladesh and Nigeria, where the ceiling is 9,550. The number specified for the Bahamas appears to be 6. Forget the admissions of even a large Bahamian family.