2021财年，美国职业移民将获得额外6万个绿卡名额

新冠疫情导致美国全球各地大使馆停止办公，美国国务院签证控制部主任Charles Oppenheim预测：2021财年，职业移民至少可分到20万个绿卡配额，比正常财年的140,000多出60,000个，而且这些名额有希望被转给职业移民EB-1/EB-2/EB-3类别。

Wolfsdorf Rosenthal LLP律师事务所网站消息如下对这则消息做了整理，这家律所的老板是美国移民律师协会（AILA）前主席。

Approximately 60,000 Additional Employment Visas Available for Fiscal Year 2021 (Starting October 1, 2020)

Charles Oppenheim, Chief of the Visa Control and Reporting Division at the U.S. Department of State, when addressing the EB-5 trade association IIUSA on June 15, 2020, estimated that the “FY 2021 Employment limit [could be] at least 200,000 [as opposed to the regular 140,000].”

This is because he “currently expects that there will be a significant amount of unused FY 2020 family numbers …” after the shutdown of consulates due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

While qualifying that things, “could always change between now and September, and impact that estimate,” this is good news for all the employment categories, especially the EB-5 employment category where the unavailability of visas, together with the increase in the maximum investment, has caused a slump in EB-5 filings.

However, the EB-1, 2 and 3 visa categories would benefit most with an estimated 51,480 visas going to these three categories collectively.

Mr. Oppenheim also confirmed that the annual deduction of 700 EB-5 and 300 EB-3 visas as a result of the Chinese Student Protection Act will be completely satisfied in FY2020. Therefore, not only will China receive its full annual quota in FY2021 (starting October 1, 2020), but it will also benefit from this unused family visa spillover.

EB-4 and EB-5 each get 7.1% of the allocation of an additional 4,260 visas, approximately. EB-1,2 and 3 each get 28.6% of the quota so each category would likely get an additional 17,160 visas, approximately.

科领出国简单做了翻译：

2021财年（从2020年10月1日开始）将提供大约60,000份额外的就业签证

美国国务院签证控制和报告部主任查尔斯•奥本海姆（Charles Oppenheim）在2020年6月15日向EB-5贸易协会IIUSA致辞时估计，“ 2021财年的就业限制[可能]至少为200,000 [反对常规的140,000]。”

这是因为在COVID-19大流行导致领事馆关闭后，他“目前预计2020财年家庭数量将有大量未使用……”。

在限定条件的同时，“可能在现在和9月之间总是会改变，并会影响估计值”，这对所有就业类别都是个好消息，尤其是EB-5就业类别，在该类别中没有签证，并且最高签证人数有所增加投资，导致EB-5申请量减少。

但是，EB-1、2和3签证类别将受益最多，估计有51,480个签证集体进入这三个类别。

奥本海姆先生还确认，根据《中国学生保护法》，每年可以扣除700个EB-5和300个EB-3签证，这将在2020财年完全实现。因此，中国不仅将在2021财年（从2020年10月1日开始）获得全部年度配额，而且还将受益于这种未使用的家庭签证外溢。

EB-4和EB-5分别获得大约4,260个签证分配的7.1％。 EB-1,2和3分别获得配额的28.6％，因此每个类别可能会分别获得大约17,160签证。

对于美国移民申请人以及意向申请人来说，今年听说过各种对美国移民不利的消息，比如不能登陆美国，特朗普紧缩移民签证。但是在大选年加上新冠疫情的影响下，这样的结果是正常的。科领出国提醒大家，对移民立国的美国来说，不接收移民是根本不可能的。