The date on which you first entered the immigration application process. Since only a limited number of green cards are issued each year, you may have to wait until a visa becomes available. Your Priority Date marks your place in the waiting line, with others who filed similar petitions. Each month the U.S. Department of State makes green cards available to all those who applied on or before a certain priority date. You can get a green card only when your date comes up on the DOS list.
A claim that an application should be given the filing date of an earlier application provided that this earlier application was filed in the previous 12 months (for patents) or 6 months (for designs and trademarks) by the same applicant.(FR:Date de priorité, IT:Data di priorità )
Date assigned to aliens for processing of green card. The INS will not process an immigrant petition until the date is current. Click here for an explanation on how the priority date is determined.
A design application may claim as a priority date the filing date of an earlier design application in another country, provided that the earlier application was filed within the previous 6 months and that the other country is a Convention country.
The date an immigrant visa petition is filed with immigration or in some cases the date of a Labor Certification Application is first filed with a State Labor Department. The priority date determines your place in line in an immigrant preference category.
A priority date is established for your invention when you first file a patent application that describes the invention in detail. This is used to determine if your invention is new. If your invention is known to the public before this date, you are not entitled to patent it.
a lot like taking a ticket at the deli counter in the supermarket
the filing date of a previously filed application which is claimed as the effective filing date of subject matter in a later filed application
The date of establishment of a water right. The rights established by application have the application date as the date of priority.
A priority date is established for the invention when one first files a patent application that describes the invention in detail.
A claim that an application should be given the filing date of an earlier trade mark application in another country, provided that the earlier application was filed within the previous 6 months and that the other country is a "Convention country".
in the case of a family-based immigrant visa petition, it is the date the petition was filed. In the case of an employment-based petition, it is the date the Labor Certification was filed with the Department of Labor.
The date from which the registration rights in a Registered Trade Mark exist. This is normally the date of filing in New Zealand, but for convention applications the date is that of first filing in a foreign country.
Officially registered date of first application for a patent or other IP (different in USA.) In the event of dispute, can be crucial in determining who invented first.
Applications submitted by the published priority application date will be given first consideration during the review and selection process.
The priority date decides a person's turn to apply for an immigrant visa. In family immigration the priority date is the date when the petition was filed at a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) office or submitted to an Embassy or Consulate abroad. In employment immigration the priority date may be the date the labor certification application was received by the Department of Labor (DOL). In the Diversity Program the turn for immigration is decided by the applicant's position in a random draw.
The date assigned to an approved immigrant petition. The Priority Date determines the beneficiary's place in the waiting list for the immigrant preference category. The Priority Date is the date that a family petition is received by the INS or, in an employment case, it is the date the Labor Certificate application is received by the state local employment service.
The initial date of filing of a patent application, normally in the applicant's domestic patent office. This date is used to help determine the novelty of an invention.
refers to a green card applicant's "ticket in line". Those who are subject to the annual quota under the preference system are given priority dates The date on which one first makes a formal filing for a green card is the priority date. Each month the U.S. Department of State publishes a "Visa Bulletin" which tracks the progress of priority dates for each preference category.
Because a limited number of green cards are issued each year, you must wait your turn behind others who have filed before you. The date on which you first make a formal filing for a green card is called the priority date. Your priority date marks your place in the waiting line. Each month the U.S. Department of State, in accordance with established quotas, makes green cards available to all those who applied on or before a certain priority date. You can get a green card only when your date comes up.
The date used to determine when a beneficiary of a visa petition is able to apply for adjustment of status.
A specified date - usually the date when a patent application is first filed - against which the novelty and inventiveness of an invention is assessed.
The filing date of the first patent application disclosing an invention, which filing date has occurred no more than 12 months before the filing date of a later-filed patent application claiming the priority date of the first application.
Generally the first person to apply for a patent for an invention will own the patent and this position applies in most countries. However the effect of international patent conventions is that the first application is termed the "priority date" for a patent and novelty will not be prejudiced if other national applications for the same subject matter are made by the applicant within twelve months of the UK priority date. UK applicants must apply in the UK first.
In the INS Immigrant visa petition application process, the priority date is the date the petition was filed. If the alien relative has a priority date on or before the date listed in the visa bulletin, then he or she is currently eligible for a visa.