{"id":707,"date":"2014-10-08T08:41:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T08:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/?p=707"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:36:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:36:24","slug":"u-visa-numbers-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/pl\/u-visa-numbers-available\/","title":{"rendered":"U Visa Numbers Available Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 1 marked the beginning of Fiscal Year 2015 for <a href=\"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/services\/immigration-lawyers-chicago\/\">U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services<\/a>. The start of the fiscal year means that 10,000 U visas are now available for issuance. The Immigration Service has started approving the applications of those people who were placed on the waiting list in the last year; the Immigration Service is issuing I-94s and <a href=\"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/services\/employment-immigration-lawyers-chicago\/non-immigrant-visas\/\">work authorization cards<\/a> to those applicants. USCIS processes the approvals on a first-in, first-out basis; in other words, those who were placed on the waiting list first are being approved and issued their documents first. Last year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/services\/immigration-lawyers-chicago\/u-visa\/\">cap of 10,000 U visas<\/a> was reached by early December. We expect that cap to be met again this year, as it has for the last five years.<\/p>\n<p>Update by <a title=\"Erin C. Cobb\" href=\"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/attorney-profiles\/erin-cobb\/\">Erin Cobb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 1 marked the beginning of Fiscal Year 2015 for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The start of the fiscal year means that 10,000 U visas are now available for issuance. The Immigration Service has started approving the applications of those people who were placed on the waiting list in the last year; the Immigration &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/pl\/u-visa-numbers-available\/\" class=\"more-link\">Czytaj dalej<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201eU Visa Numbers Available Again!\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-immigration-law","category-visas","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12003,"href":"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/12003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}