Indian applicants in the US employment-based immigration queue could face another setback, with the State Department warning that EB-1 green card numbers may become temporarily unavailable before September 30, the end of the US fiscal year, due to high demand.
The warning comes as Indian applicants already face severe backlogs in other employment-based categories. The EB-2 category for India remains unavailable in the September Visa Bulletin, while EB-3 continues to have a long wait.