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July 17, 2023
U.S. Immigration News

Green Card Backlog Decreases By 4% in April

The immigrant visa backlog was at 354,973 cases in April, a 4.3% decrease from the previous report in February.

The Department of State’s National Visa Center (NVC) saw a decrease in the immigrant visa (IV) backlog, from 370,125 pending cases in February to 354,973 cases in April — a 4.3% decrease (the NVC did not release a report in March).

The number of green card applicants whose cases were documentarily complete and ready to be scheduled for an interview decreased slightly, from 409,021 in February to 396,877 in April (a decrease of only roughly 3%). A case that is considered “documentarily complete” is a case in which all the required forms and documents have been submitted and accepted by the NVC, and therefore the case is ready for interview scheduling.

Green card backlog

Despite the minimal decrease in case counts, the number of people scheduled for green card interviews saw a small increase. The NVC scheduled 41,904 interviews in April, compared to 38,896 interviews in February.

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