"The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released new data showing that the green card backlog for employment-based immigrants in April 2020 surpassed 1.2 million applicants—the highest number ever." cato.org/blog/employmen…
The backlog increased from November 2019 to April 2020 at three times the monthly pace that it increased from April 2018 to November 2019. 
Most of the increase in the EB backlog occurred in the EB-2 and EB-3 employer-sponsored categories for immigrants with a bachelor's or master's degrees.
Indians continue to dominate the backlog, accounting for nearly two thirds of backlogged petitions, though the recent increases came mainly from non-Indian and non-Chinese immigrants.
I updated my estimates of the time to process the entire backlog to take into account the family-based spillover under 3 scenarios: 1) if everyone stays in forever, 2) accounting for deaths, and 3) accounting for deaths and people leaving the line.
Despite the spillover, newly backlogged employer-sponsored Indians face an 8-decade backlog and about 186,000 petitions for Indians will expire due to their deaths even if they could stay eligible for that long. Only about half of the Indian petitions will result in green cards.
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