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The USCIS Electronic Reading Room provides access to information identified under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). We will update the Electronic Reading Room when documents are requested 3 or more times, or when we proactively identify documents likely requested for release.

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Green Card Backlog - Huseman (PDF, 250.98 KB)

August 14, 2023

Correspondence with recommendations on ways to improve the employment-based immigration system and to fully eliminate the Green Card backlog.

Employment-Based Visas - Representative Krishnamoorthi (PDF, 346.6 KB)

April 18, 2023

Correspondence requesting an extension of the grace period for employment-based visas.

Permanent Workers

March 29, 2023

ALERT: On March 22, 2023, the Department of State posted the April 2023 Visa Bulletin, as well as a Federal Register Notice (PDF) explaining certain changes to the Final Action Dates and Dates for Filing for the Employment-Based Fourth Preference Immigrant Visa Category. Approximately 140,000 immigrant visas are available each fiscal year for noncitizens (and their spouses and children) who seek to immigrate based on their job skills. If you have the right combination of skills, education, and/or work experience and are otherwise eligible, you may be able to live permanently in the United States. The five employment-based immigrant visa preferences (categories) are listed below.

Employment-based adjustment of status - O’Donoghue (PDF, 346.47 KB)

December 27, 2022

Correspondence regarding the processing of employment-based adjustment of status and their family members.

Employment-based immigrant visas - Brian Huseman (PDF, 229.98 KB)

October 06, 2022

Correspondence requesting USCIS to administer all employment-based immigrant visas allotted by Congress by the end of the fiscal year.

Employment-based visas - Corley (PDF, 318.84 KB)

September 21, 2022

Correspondence regarding the utilization of all available employment-based immigrant visas in Fiscal Year 2022.

Employment based visas - Senator Tillis (PDF, 3.14 MB)

July 07, 2022

Correspondence requesting an update of USCIS efforts to improve processing of employment-based visas.

Employment-based visas - Senator Tillis (PDF, 4.56 MB)

December 15, 2021

Questions regarding the efforts made by USCIS in FY21 and the efforts that will be undertaken in FY22.

Backlogs in various programs – Senator Feinstein (PDF, 789.45 KB)

September 08, 2021

Correspondence regarding the backlog of USCIS’s adjudication of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), affirmative asylum applications, and employment-based adjustment of status applications.

I-485 inventory as of July 2019 (PDF, 274.51 KB)

December 16, 2019

All employment-based I-485 inventory pending at the Service Centers by preference category and country of birth.

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