Law Office of
D.Ray Mantle, PLLC

Attorney Profile

D.Ray Mantle has devoted his legal career to immigration law. His thorough research and writing skills were relied on by Immigration Judges while he served as an Attorney Advisor in the U.S. Department of Justice, and he has advised Fortune 100 companies on complex immigration cases. Find out how you can benefit from his experience and have Mr. Mantle work for you:

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972-567-8809 (phone)
888-567-0896 (fax)

2591 Dallas Parkway
Suite 300
Frisco, Texas 75034

Member,
American Immigration
Lawyers Association

Visa Bulletin

The Bureau of Consular Affairs within the Department of State controls the allocation of immigrant visa numbers each month. Only individuals with a priority date earlier than the posted cut-off dates for that month are eligible to have their permanent residence applications approved.

May 2008 Visa Bulletin

May 1, 2008

Employment-Based Priority Dates

Many of the Employment cut-off dates have continued to advance more rapidly than might ordinarily be expected. This is a result of consultations with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) regarding their pending demand, which is currently using approximately 90% of all Employment numbers. USCIS has indicated that they would prefer to review a substantial number of cases at this time to ensure that number use in the various categories can be maximized. Should USCIS projections of the resulting number use prove to be incorrect it may be necessary to adjust the cut-off dates during the final quarter of FY-2008.

	All Charge-ability Areas Except Those Listed	CHINA- mainland born	INDIA	MEXICO	PHILIPPINES
Employ-ment -Based
1st	C	C	C	C	C
2nd	C	01JAN04	01JAN04	C	C
3rd	01MAR06	22MAR03	01NOV01	01JUL02	01MAR06
Other Workers	01JAN03	01JAN03	01JAN03	01JAN03	01JAN03
4th	C	C	C	C	C
Certain Religious Workers	C	C	C	C	C
5th	C	C	C	C	C
Targeted Employ-ment Areas/ Regional Centers	C	C	C	C	C

Family-Based Priority Dates

Continued heavy demand in the Mexico F2A category may require the retrogression of this cut-off date to hold number use within the annual numerical limit. Such action could occur as early as June.

Family	All Charge- ability Areas Except Those Listed	CHINA-mainland born	INDIA	MEXICO	PHILIPP-INES
1st	08MAR02	08MAR02	08MAR02	08JUL92	15MAR93
2A	08JUN03	08JUN03	08JUN03	01MAY02	08JUN03
2B	01JUN99	01JUN99	01JUN99	01APR92	15FEB97
3rd	22JUN00	22JUN00	22JUN00	22JUL92	01APR91
4th	08AUG97	15JAN97	01JAN97	15DEC94	08MAR86

First: Unmarried Sons and Daughters of Citizens: 23,400 plus any numbers not required for fourth preference.

Second: Spouses and Children, and Unmarried Sons and Daughters of Permanent Residents: 114,200, plus the number (if any) by which the worldwide family preference level exceeds 226,000, and any unused first preference numbers:

A. Spouses and Children: 77% of the overall second preference limitation, of which 75% are exempt from the per-country limit;

B. Unmarried Sons and Daughters (21 years of age or older): 23% of the overall second preference limitation.

Third: Married Sons and Daughters of Citizens: 23,400, plus any numbers not required by first and second preferences.

Fourth: Brothers and Sisters of Adult Citizens: 65,000, plus any numbers not required by first three preferences.

D.Ray Mantle provides professional immigration services to employers and individuals throughout the United States and around the world. Located conveniently in Frisco, Texas, Mr. Mantle is a local immigration resource for the Dallas - Fort Worth metroplex, including Collin County, Dallas County, Denton County, Tarrant County, Allen, Carrollton, Dallas, Denton, Fort Worth, Frisco, Lewisville, McKinney, Plano, and Richardson.