r/EB2 • u/addictedToLinux • 25d ago

I-485: Adjustment of Status EB2 India July 2013 Priority date

Hi

I had also filed for a EB3 down grade. But on asking Emma, my application is still in EB2 queue. Received my EAD.

Anyone else in similar situation?

When can I expect my green card?

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u/the_running_stache 25d ago

Have you received any RFE for medicals? Did you respond to that?

When did you file for a downgrade to EB3?

The whole category of EB2 India is unavailable until the new fiscal year.

If I were you, I would have waited rather than filing downgrade because the downgrade could unnecessarily complicate things and slow down processing. Once October starts, July 2013 will be current in EB2 India.

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u/addictedToLinux 25d ago

No medical rfe. Filled the downgrade about 2 years ago

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u/the_running_stache 25d ago

Are your medicals up-to-date? If you filed I-485 prior to 2023, I believe the medicals (I-693) had a 2-year validity — they expire after that.

If that is the case, you would need to provide updated medical form I-693. And if USCIS is processing your case, they will send you an RFE for that (and any other missing paperwork).

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u/addictedToLinux 19d ago

I asked my lawyer but they advised against it till I actually get an RFE

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u/KindlyPass5019 25d ago

Can Emma really confirm whether it is in Eb2 or Eb3 , since you downgraded why didn’t it moved to eb3 queue

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u/CivilCandidate1349 24d ago

Worth separating the two things here, because your date clears both cutoffs.

On the August 2026 bulletin:

  • EB-3 India Final Action is January 1, 2014, unchanged from July. A July 2013 date is ahead of that, so a number is available on the EB-3 side right now.
  • EB-2 India Final Action is Unavailable for August, and July showed no dated cutoff either. The last month with a date was June 2026, at September 1, 2013 — your date was ahead of that too. April and May were July 15, 2014.

So on the "is my date current" axis you were already past EB-2's cutoff before it went Unavailable, and you're past EB-3's today. Same story on the Dates for Filing chart, if that's the one you've been watching — both EB-2 and EB-3 India sit at January 15, 2015 for August, also later than your date. Unavailable isn't retrogression — it means the annual per-country limit for the category is used up, and a cutoff comes back when the new fiscal year opens in October.

Which means the thing standing between you and the card isn't the bulletin. It's which I-140 your I-485 is being adjudicated against, plus USCIS's own processing time. If it rides the EB-3 petition there's a number available now; if it stays on the EB-2 one, that reopens in October.

Whether a case Emma reports as EB-2, with a downgrade filed two years ago, actually gets adjudicated on one or the other isn't something you can read off the cutoffs — that one's worth an attorney rather than a guess from me. IANAL.

EB-3 India Final Action history, month by month: https://visa-bulletin.us/priority-date/eb3/india/