A Olusanjo Omoniyi
Immigration AttorneyThe USCIS will still maintain the priority date for each application. From all perspectives, it appears that those countries that are currently experiencing retrogression such as China, Vietnam and India just to name a few may not significantly benefit. Also, be assured that the non-backlogged/non-retrogressed countries will not experience drawback and there is no such thing that retrogressed countries taking over the spots that belong to non-retrogressed countries. Thus, your case as an India national will still take it normal and assigned priority date and as such as a national of a retrogressed country you will not be allowed to jump ahead of any national of a non-retrogressed country.