The November Visa Bulletin may be released today, two days after a federal court rejected a request to reinstate the original October Visa Bulletin. Instead, the revised October Visa Bulletin controls immigrant visas for the month. The rescission of the original bulletin was heartbreaking to thousands of backlogged Green Card applicants who finally thought they were eligible. It coincided with a brand new format, in which action dates and filing dates were posted. This was heralded as a modernization of the visa bulletin, so that thousands of visas were not wasted each year. The revised bulletin rolled back many of the family and employment categories months, even years.

Perhaps the November bulletin will resemble something close to the original October visa bulletin. The Department of State and Department of Homeland Security are defendants in Mehta v. DOS, in which plaintiffs affected by the revised bulletin are suing to reinstate the original bulletin.