ON Nov. 1, 2014, there were 4,331,750 individuals with approved petitions in the US family-sponsored categories. In addition, there were 90,910 visa beneficiaries in the Employment-based preference categories, bringing to 4,422,660 the total number of people around the world waiting for their immigrant visas.

In November last year, a 3-percent increase brought the grand total to 4,556,021.

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