NO VISAS AVAILABLE FOR RELIGIOUS WORKERS

Today the State Department posted the October Visa Bulletin http://travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/bulletin/bulletin_4575.html which continues to list that there are no visas available for religious workers again next month. This means that religious workers who want to concurrently file an I-360, special immigrant religious worker petition, and a green card application, I-485 cannot do so either in the month of September or the month of October. This is dismal news considering that the Ruiz-Diaz decision adopted by USCIS finally permits religious workers to concurrently file I-360/I-485's so that R visa holders don't run out of R time waiting for their I-360 to be approved before filing the I-485.