All Aug 2013 485 APPROVALS & DISCUSSION - report here with details

[Niksammy]

Last spring in 2012, did people "miss the boat" even after getting reply either by SR or other way (including congressional inquiry) that their case is assigned to an officer.
I am trying to interpret the congressional inquiry reply as best I can, can I hope that there sure will be an adjudication since its "with an officer for review" or else are there any cases in the past where it has been assigned to officer but never adjudicated for various reasons?
Yesterday and today the pace of approvals have slowed down dramatically.
we have only 10 business days left in the month and after that there will be another 7.3K cases added and I am not sure whether the IO's will try to finish the cases already assigned or else will go for the "fresh fruits".

I am pretty confident that you will get the approval this FY year itself. I know that you have some concerns regarding your current job, but you will be fine since you have already replied to the EVL RFE. I know 2 people who got their GCs after they were fired by their GC enployers in 2007 and both of them recently became US citizens, without any issues. So I do not think you will run into any problems because of job change.

I am in a similar boat - want to get GC at the earliest. Have tried everything that i could do from contacting the congressman to getting an info pass appointment (for 20th Aug). The response I have gotten from the congressman is that USCIS is pretty busy and I need to wait for 30-45 days. Keeping my fingers crossed and hoping for the best since other things are beyond our control. I am pretty sure that when you get the GC, you will think about all the stressful time from 1 Aug 2013 onwards and have a good laugh.

[indiani]

I am pretty confident that you will get the approval this FY year itself. I know that you have some concerns regarding your current job, but you will be fine since you have already replied to the EVL RFE. I know 2 people who got their GCs after they were fired by their GC enployers in 2007 and both of them recently became US citizens, without any issues. So I do not think you will run into any problems because of job change.

I am in a similar boat - want to get GC at the earliest. Have tried everything that i could do from contacting the congressman to getting an info pass appointment (for 20th Aug). The response I have gotten from the congressman is that USCIS is pretty busy and I need to wait for 30-45 days. Keeping my fingers crossed and hoping for the best since other things are beyond our control. I am pretty sure that when you get the GC, you will think about all the stressful time from 1 Aug 2013 onwards and have a good laugh.

Those are very kind and encouraging words, I really hope I get this month as September will be even more nerve-wrecking month as new cases will be added and moreover they can "close for the fiscal year" anytime.

I could definitely find a job as a physician but it is just time consuming and even to get a letter of job offer it might take few weeks, so I am just concerned everyday and putting up with rude and disgusting employer ( who in fact came to this country on J-1 visa and from India ) everyday. My alternate plan is open a LLC and work under LLC after few months as it will take that long to kick start because of insurance approvals or finding contract jobs etc.,( this is my back up plan in case fired) I feel like a runaway teen with a pimp who could theoretically leave the abusive pimp but afraid to do so. what he expects me to do is almost illegal and he thinks that as I don't have GC yet I will put up with anything for his profits, so I am really torn between leaving under AC21 or trying to kill each minute with the hope of getting the CPO TXT/email. ( at this moment choosing the latter)

[seattlet]

Those are very kind and encouraging words, I really hope I get this month as September will be even more nerve-wrecking month as new cases will be added and moreover they can "close for the fiscal year" anytime.

I could definitely find a job as a physician but it is just time consuming and even to get a letter of job offer it might take few weeks, so I am just concerned everyday and putting up with rude and disgusting employer ( who in fact came to this country on J-1 visa and from India ) everyday. My alternate plan is open a LLC and work under LLC after few months as it will take that long to kick start because of insurance approvals or finding contract jobs etc.,( this is my back up plan in case fired) I feel like a runaway teen with a pimp who could theoretically leave the abusive pimp but afraid to do so. what he expects me to do is almost illegal and he thinks that as I don't have GC yet I will put up with anything for his profits, so I am really torn between leaving under AC21 or trying to kill each minute with the hope of getting the CPO TXT/email. ( at this moment choosing the latter)


I would suggest to go head on with ur employer. Certain folks just need to be kept in check by periodic taps on their head so that they even will let u live. worst case they fire you and just be ready for that possibility. I would suggest be ready for anything- job in different state/ city, any remote part of the country etc. Anything would be better than this.

My recommendation is that u assume that u wont get GC in the next few months and plan and do what u have to do. If it arrives sooner u can change ur plans any day. (or go on vacation for couple of months). If you are unable to do that, take a sick leave for few days till end of month hoping to get GC (Find some chronic condition like back pain, neck pain etc where if you say you have pain and they diagnose they will definitely find something :) u r a doc. i dont have to tell u more). And during this time, find a new job in next couple of weeks.

[qesehmk]

@indiani - I didn't know your story. I hope you get yours in next few weeks. I don't see why not.

I personally knew somebody - a physician friend - who lost his job while his date became current. But he got his GC without any problems. Lets hope you carry through the last leg without problems and then the world is full of choices.

Another friend of mine used to work for a hedge fund. The owner - a desi guy - was minting money - so much that he could take a charter plan to mumbai and back to see his parents. But he paid my friend less than what many of you make in 3 months. Finally my friend left him and joined a good fortune 50 company. But I guess - when it comes to H1 exploitation - all employers screw you - except for the top notch employers like google who value their people.

As seattlet said - if it comes to that - screw the employer. I don't want to be insensitive - but to be honest - if it comes to that - screw the green card also - your own dignity and peace of mind is 100 times more important than any green card or citizenship. Just don't let that jerk have you do something illegal.

[indiani]

@indiani - I didn't know your story. I hope you get yours in next few weeks. I don't see why not.

I personally knew somebody - a physician friend - who lost his job while his date became current. But he got his GC without any problems. Lets hope you carry through the last leg without problems and then the world is full of choices.

Another friend of mine used to work for a hedge fund. The owner - a desi guy - was minting money - so much that he could take a charter plan to mumbai and back to see his parents. But he paid my friend less than what many of you make in 3 months. Finally my friend left him and joined a good fortune 50 company. But I guess - when it comes to H1 exploitation - all employers screw you - except for the top notch employers like google who value their people.

As seattlet said - if it comes to that - screw the employer. I don't want to be insensitive - but to be honest - if it comes to that - screw the green card also - your own dignity and peace of mind is 100 times more important than any green card or citizenship. Just don't let that jerk have you do something illegal.

Q,

thanks for your kind words, last time even though I had concurrent H-1 , I left the old employer with whom I had 1-140 just couple of months before GC and by the time I got new PERM and I-140 the dates retrogressed and I was just able to file for 485 in April 2012. Now that I am current I am putting up with BS/ swallowing up my ego ( or I should call it self-respect) hoping that the usics will adjudicate in coming days or couple of weeks, I spoke with a Pilipino friend ( we both started on H-1 our first jobs but now he is on his own ) who offered to give a EVL should I lose my job immediately. even though technically I could sue my current employer ( if he fires) as he has to give me 3 month notice before terminating , he can always show some reason to justify firing and unless I am able to prove that he is biased ( which is very difficult as the rest of the staff mostly hourly waged staff in the office or other doctors will try to keep their jobs and not say a word) its very difficult to sue ( courts usually give employer / entrepreneur the benefit of doubt).

a dentist fired his employee as " she was too hot for the job" and she lost in the court even though she worked for dentist for years.

My last resort is to open a LLC and plan to work on my own but in case of RFE, its difficult to answer as I wont have anything but just a LLC ( without any ability to pay etc. ) as it takes months to get on insurance plans and get hospital privileges.

Right after the CPO e-mail , I wont put up with any BS even for a second as I won't be vulnerable like I described before " runaway teen with a pimp who could theoretically leave but actually wont". or else if there is delay in GC beyond sept and dates retrogress in oct even then I will file AC21 and leave.

[Jagan01]

Q,

thanks for your kind words, last time even though I had concurrent H-1 , I left the old employer with whom I had 1-140 just couple of months before GC and by the time I got new PERM and I-140 the dates retrogressed and I was just able to file for 485 in April 2012. Now that I am current I am putting up with BS/ swallowing up my ego ( or I should call it self-respect) hoping that the usics will adjudicate in coming days or couple of weeks, I spoke with a Pilipino friend ( we both started on H-1 our first jobs but now he is on his own ) who offered to give a EVL should I lose my job immediately. even though technically I could sue my current employer ( if he fires) as he has to give me 3 month notice before terminating , he can always show some reason to justify firing and unless I am able to prove that he is biased ( which is very difficult as the rest of the staff mostly hourly waged staff in the office or other doctors will try to keep their jobs and not say a word) its very difficult to sue ( courts usually give employer / entrepreneur the benefit of doubt).

a dentist fired his employee as " she was too hot for the job" and she lost in the court even though she worked for dentist for years.

My last resort is to open a LLC and plan to work on my own but in case of RFE, its difficult to answer as I wont have anything but just a LLC ( without any ability to pay etc. ) as it takes months to get on insurance plans and get hospital privileges.

Right after the CPO e-mail , I wont put up with any BS even for a second as I won't be vulnerable like I described before " runaway teen with a pimp who could theoretically leave but actually wont". or else if there is delay in GC beyond sept and dates retrogress in oct even then I will file AC21 and leave.

Indiani,

I think its best to stay put at the job. I am surely less educated about all the details but had heard that people generally stick around with the employer even after getting GC. I do not know if it is true but had heard that 6 months is the minimum time to hang around after getting greened.

About the multiple H1, I have read conflicting information. Some forums like Murthy have explained that it is not in the best interest to be on multiple H1s at the same time. I currently work for one of the big software firms but also had an opportunity to work for a startup which was ready to hire me part time on a separate H1. However, researching the topic I did not feel comfortable to hold multiple H1s. I am sure you would have done your homework but just a suggestion that it might be helpful to check if doing multiple jobs after holding multiple H1s is not detrimental.

Thanks,
Jagan

[indiani]

Indiani,

I think its best to stay put at the job. I am surely less educated about all the details but had heard that people generally stick around with the employer even after getting GC. I do not know if it is true but had heard that 6 months is the minimum time to hang around after getting greened.

About the multiple H1, I have read conflicting information. Some forums like Murthy have explained that it is not in the best interest to be on multiple H1s at the same time. I currently work for one of the big software firms but also had an opportunity to work for a startup which was ready to hire me part time on a separate H1. However, researching the topic I did not feel comfortable to hold multiple H1s. I am sure you would have done your homework but just a suggestion that it might be helpful to check if doing multiple jobs after holding multiple H1s is not detrimental.

Thanks,
Jagan

If uscis is willing to give you permission to work under concurrent h-1's you can ( as a physicians I can do 2 full time jobs at the same time). you cannot apply for new h-1 or H-1 transfer and work for both.

secondly once I get GC, there is no rule as to how long somehow has to stay, I recently spoke with a physician who stayed for 1 month after GC and just got citizenship. 5 years from now the mood in general of the country will be pro-immigration so I expect them to be more lenient. More ever once I get GC I can work the way I want ( which is what all physicians should do- look out for the patient , not greedy employer) , if employer terminates then even if it 1 week from the time of GC, still I will be in good shape or may be he will learn to kiss my "you know what" for duration of my stay.

By the way in most forums the opinion of most people is not even worth a cent., here spec and others take extreme caution in providing links and evidence on everything they say.( uscis website, memo's , prior cases ) ( even though I have Guru under my name , I am not one , I got it without my knowledge perhaps for a amount of blogging I guess)

[Jagan01]

If uscis is willing to give you permission to work under concurrent h-1's you can ( as a physicians I can do 2 full time jobs at the same time). you cannot apply for new h-1 or H-1 transfer and work for both.

secondly once I get GC, there is no rule as to how long somehow has to stay, I recently spoke with a physician who stayed for 1 month after GC and just got citizenship. 5 years from now the mood in general of the country will be pro-immigration so I expect them to be more lenient. More ever once I get GC I can work the way I want ( which is what all physicians should do- look out for the patient , not greedy employer) , if employer terminates then even if it 1 week from the time of GC, still I will be in good shape or may be he will learn to kiss my "you know what" for duration of my stay.

By the way in most forums the opinion of most people is not even worth a cent., here spec and others take extreme caution in providing links and evidence on everything they say.( uscis website, memo's , prior cases ) ( even though I have Guru under my name , I am not one , I got it without my knowledge perhaps for a amount of blogging I guess)

Hi Indiani,

You might be correct and you surely have more knowledge about the details of concurrent H1's.

When I was going through the option of multiple H1's, I remember reading that it is not logically correct to say that I have multiple H1's (both full time) because of the employee-employer relations requirement that requires an employee to work in the employers office. If both are full time then how can I potentially be in two offices at the same time for the office hours ?

I also remember reading that in the I-129 application there is a box for concurrent H1 and that once the box is selected in the application then the jobs better be one part time and another full time. But again I do not know much about it.

[indiani]

Hi Indiani,

You might be correct and you surely have more knowledge about the details of concurrent H1's.

When I was going through the option of multiple H1's, I remember reading that it is not logically correct to say that I have multiple H1's (both full time) because of the employee-employer relations requirement that requires an employee to work in the employers office. If both are full time then how can I potentially be in two offices at the same time for the office hours ?

I also remember reading that in the I-129 application there is a box for concurrent H1 and that once the box is selected in the application then the jobs better be one part time and another full time. But again I do not know much about it.

you need not work in an office, moreover you need not work the same hours, many doctors work well beyond 100 hours,

I am one of them and I was given concurrent H-1's by uscis, I didn't work for both employers for very long

[Jagan01]

you need not work in an office, moreover you need not work the same hours, many doctors work well beyond 100 hours,

I am one of them and I was given concurrent H-1's by uscis, I didn't work for both employers for very long

Good to know that this is possible. I got contrary advice when I was figuring out whether a person can work for multiple employers on different H1s. Just out of curiosity, why did you not continue working with both and file two I-485s. If working for multiple employers is possible then I suspect that filing for GC with both is also possible. This can increase a persons chance of getting the GC.

[RogerFederer]

Indiani

I feel so sorry for your story. Always was reading your posts, buying aila stuff etc, never thought you are in such condition.

Below is my take

1. What I realized is you r the only person who can asses your situation make a right decision. No one else. They may say jump the well,cuz may be they are strong to jump, but you may not.
2. Leaving employer right after gc and having intent of leaving once approved is fraud. Ppl cover that in many ways but fraud is fraud. You may face consequences. Ppl say risk is only 1%. But for me no. For 99 others it may be ok.
3. If you started the process of moving before you r approved and if you informed of the intent to uscis its not cuz its AC21
4. I'm current and unfortunately I got an offer just before dates were current. Gues what I'm doing, I'm sticking to my current employer. Rejecting the ft. Devil vs prada. Watch that movie. You are the one knows what you want.

Don't make decisions in haste. I saw you posting today to carry two ids just for the sake of it to some one else. By that I assume you are no risk taker. So my suggestion is for you is stay put. But you can throw that suggestion in garbage :-)

Best wishes.

[indiani]

Good to know that this is possible. I got contrary advice when I was figuring out whether a person can work for multiple employers on different H1s. Just out of curiosity, why did you not continue working with both and file two I-485s. If working for multiple employers is possible then I suspect that filing for GC with both is also possible. This can increase a persons chance of getting the GC.

I had personal reasons not to continue at that time, looking back I should have.

Moreover its very strenuous to do 2 full time jobs at the same time for a long time.

[indiani]

Roger,


I feel so sorry for your story. Always was reading your posts, buying aila stuff etc, never thought you are in such condition.

Below is my take

1. What I realized is you r the only person who can asses your situation make a right decision. No one else. They may say jump the well,cuz may be they are strong to jump, but you may not.

some ideas are useful and yes, I have to take the final decision what to do eventually
2. Leaving employer right after gc and having intent of leaving once approved is fraud. Ppl cover that in many ways but fraud is fraud. You may face consequences. Ppl say risk is only 1%. But for me no. For 99 others it may be ok.

Like I said I don't have intent to leave the employer right after GC, what I was looking for a back up plan if I lose job prior to GC approval and moreover , after GC I will be doing the job I am supposed to based on my contract and nothing else
3. If you started the process of moving before you r approved and if you informed of the intent to uscis its not cuz its AC21

I didn't understand what you mean exactly
4. I'm current and unfortunately I got an offer just before dates were current. Gues what I'm doing, I'm sticking to my current employer. Rejecting the ft. Devil vs prada. Watch that movie. You are the one knows what you want.

Don't make decisions in haste. I saw you posting today to carry two ids just for the sake of it to some one else. By that I assume you are no risk taker. So my suggestion is for you is stay put. But you can throw that suggestion in garbage :-)

I am doing exactly the same not taking risk and staying here now

[qesehmk]

When I was going through the option of multiple H1's, I remember reading that it is not logically correct to say that I have multiple H1's (both full time) because of the employee-employer relations requirement that requires an employee to work in the employers office. If both are full time then how can I potentially be in two offices at the same time for the office hours ?

That is a problem between you and your employers. USCIS doesn't care about that. However USCIS does require that the candidate be paid for 40 hours of work. So there is am implicit requirement here and I would imagine that USCIS will object to a third H1 because it is indeed difficult that in a week one can work 120 hours.

[Stemcell]

I had personal reasons not to continue at that time, looking back I should have.

Moreover its very strenuous to do 2 full time jobs at the same time for a long time.



indiani,

What is your speciality ?

[sandyn16]

On August 13th, status changed from RFE response review to Initial Review. Based on various forums, this seems to mean they opened my file and took some action. Does this mean a decision will be made soon? Like either a decision or RFE to follow?

[TeddyKoochu]

Hi All,

Today i received the CPO Email. I am thankful to Q, Spec , Teddy and other Gurus for all their help. You guys have been doing a wonderful job and i am sure people in future will benefit a lot from this site.

I have gained a lot from this website in term of understanding the Processes. It is amazing to have this knowledge on this forum. Thanks for moderators for controlling the sentiments on this forum and for keeping the discussion open and useful to all.


Thank you once again

Congratulations to you and your family, enjoy green life. Thanks for your kind words, personally I have gained immensely from all immigration forums.

[username]

Just received CPO email.

Thanks to all Gurus!!! .

Heartily thanks to Q for bringing this wonderful platform!!!

Good Luck to all.

[qesehmk]

Happy monday username. Now change the signature!
Just received CPO email.

Thanks to all Gurus!!! .

Heartily thanks to Q for bringing this wonderful platform!!!

Good Luck to all.

[kam_wmu]

First of all, a big thank U, to Q,T,S,M,In,Viz,Ped .. been following Q&T from ** days and never dared to post :).. only read tons of healtly Info, predict,agremnts/disagremnts.
I have been expert in my Group of friends and always quote 'Q immi' - google search where I get and trust the Info.
As S put the figure of trackitt Approval of 5K for August - would like to know if there's ever a std. process/Memo of selecting I485 cases by CIS, pretty obvious that CIS doesn't follow any when approving 485 cases-
As Indiani and others I am also worried if my case gets picked up next month, short summary of my case, PD April 2008-EB2I, I140 revoked by Employer Late 2011 (Bcos I left Employer)- went back to Employer and used the same Labor(PD Apr 2008) to re-file I140 + 1st I485(April 2012)- I140 approved Dec 2012. Now concerned if my I485 gets picked up as someone on Trackitt said that CIS goes by I140 Approval Date while processing I485 - could be trash Info.
Also I1485 filed on April 2012 shows PD as the received date and 2nd approved I140 shows PD as Apr 2008.
Any sought of explanation will help -
1. for PD differing on I485 versus I140 and
2. CIS reason of picking the 485 cases one versus Other-
I do understand that approving 8-12 K months would have some approvals of easily approvable cases and there would be cases pending even being current for 2 times-this will be devastating on some of 2007 Eb2 filers.
Thank you
kam

[ragx08]

Just received CPO email.

Thanks to all Gurus!!! .

Heartily thanks to Q for bringing this wonderful platform!!!

Good Luck to all.

Congratulations username!!!

[Dodd_Frank]

Hi all,
Happy to announce my GC approval. Got the e-mail/SMS today (EST 9.30 AM). Thanks everybody on this forum. I have been a silent observer, registered a week back. Thanks Spec,Q,Matt,and everybody else who contributed directly/indirectly.
My info:
Oct 2007, 2nd week
Full time employee
(Tried all different ways to move my file, missed the boat twice, so did not want to risk this time, Lawyer/SR/Senator)
Seems every thign contributed to some extent. Hope others who are waiting get theirs too.
Thanks all

[qesehmk]

Happyness when shared increases! So thanks for sharing and congratulations.
Hi all,
Happy to announce my GC approval. Got the e-mail/SMS today (EST 9.30 AM). Thanks everybody on this forum. I have been a silent observer, registered a week back. Thanks Spec,Q,Matt,and everybody else who contributed directly/indirectly.
My info:
Oct 2007, 2nd week
Full time employee
(Tried all different ways to move my file, missed the boat twice, so did not want to risk this time, Lawyer/SR/Senator)
Seems every thign contributed to some extent. Hope others who are waiting get theirs too.
Thanks all

[Jagan01]

Someone with APR08 got GC

http://www.trackitt.com/member/neerajn76

[GCKnowHow]

Per trackitt, lots of approval from TSC today. I thought someone said TSC dont work on Mondays. Looks like they do.

[Spectator]

Someone with APR08 got GC

http://www.trackitt.com/member/neerajn76I've seen that and included it in my figures.

I suspect the truth is that either the PD is incorrect, or it is CC to the spouse Country of Chargeability.

[sakha13]

Got another CPO for my wife today. I am free now to work for anyone I wish, I am thinking of taking a month off later in February.

[indiani]

indiani,

What is your speciality ?

Internal medicine

[SsSkNiNa]

Hello All,

I'm a new user. My priority date is Oct 2007. Received RFE and replied on July 2013. The status is still "Request for Evidence Response Review". Any idea when my application will get picked up for processing? I see that lot of applicants are getting approved however there is no pattern in which they process the application. Does it happen that an application will never get picked up even when its current? I'm worried that it might happen to my application.

[indiani]

23 primary approvals today so far ( by late tonight might turn out to be 30 for today )..overall Good day.

If the pace stays this way hopefully 9k+ might be approved even though that leaves almost 3-4K for next month.

[Spectator]

23 primary approvals today so far ( by late tonight might turn out to be 30 for today )..overall Good day.

If the pace stays this way hopefully 9k+ might be approved even though that leaves almost 3-4K for next month.I was thinking about the conversion ratio again.

I have been using historical numbers, but they may no longer hold.

Until now, most approvals have been from the "old school" Trackitt users who initially filed in 2007 and put their case on Trackitt a long time ago. The numbers that don't update their cases is reasonably well known.

Now we are seeing the "new breed", who only put their case on Trackitt last year or earlier.

They appear to have added cases at a greater % than the "old school", but the % that will update the case status on approval is unknown.

It's quite possible that a lower % are updating the case status, which will result in a higher number of actual approvals.

A better estimate can be made once we know the actual number of approvals for FY2013.

[indiani]

spec,

I have read a few profiles on trackitt from Nov ( pending approval total 63, excluding new filers) and some of them even though appeared as pending but have posted last year that they got GC in message section, moreover some have never posted anything or updated after last year. so of all the unapproved we just know how many of them really are unapproved and moreover the conversion rate is also very difficult to predict considering so many variables.

The rate of approvals per week looks almost constant with some minor variations. I hope this year at least they will make an effort to "process all cases" before closing for the fiscal year.

[pseudonym]

With folks becoming current in Aug and Sep bulletins, many of us may be considering scrambling to open Services requests, Infopass appointments, etc. in an effort to make sure our cases do not get left behind.

To that effect, I found this interesting article on Avvo written by a immigration lawyer regarding why Infopass appointments don't work. I assume the same may apply to SR's and potentially inquiries made via congressman's office too. Just something interesting to read. Moderators, if you feel this is not relevant, please remove or move to another thread.

http://www.avvo.com/legal-guides/ugc/why-infopass-does-not-work---part-i

[vizcard]

With folks becoming current in Aug and Sep bulletins, many of us may be considering scrambling to open Services requests, Infopass appointments, etc. in an effort to make sure our cases do not get left behind.

To that effect, I found this interesting article on Avvo written by a immigration lawyer regarding why Infopass appointments don't work. I assume the same may apply to SR's and potentially inquiries made via congressman's office too. Just something interesting to read. Moderators, if you feel this is not relevant, please remove or move to another thread.

http://www.avvo.com/legal-guides/ugc/why-infopass-does-not-work---part-i

All valid points in the article. But for an applicant who is dying to get his / her case resolved, he/she has to check every possible option to get an answer. Even if the chances of success are low, i know I would do it (probably not my first option though). Speaking to a L2 is probably more effective.

[druvraj]

All valid points in the article. But for an applicant who is dying to get his / her case resolved, he/she has to check every possible option to get an answer. Even if the chances of success are low, i know I would do it (probably not my first option though). Speaking to a L2 is probably more effective.

Getting a legislature's(Senator/congressman) letter not from your state be helpful? or do you need letters from your state and/or district?

[pseudonym]

All valid points in the article. But for an applicant who is dying to get his / her case resolved, he/she has to check every possible option to get an answer. Even if the chances of success are low, i know I would do it (probably not my first option though). Speaking to a L2 is probably more effective.

viz, I completely agree. I am in the same boat. My date will become current in September, and will likely have only that month to possibly get approved before dates retrogress (externally or internally). So depending on how things go, I will certainly consider all options. Worst case, if I miss the boat this time, I don't want to have regrets about not trying everything I could.

Also, to your point, when can we ask for an L2? Is it only when we open an SR over the phone, or can we ask for an L2 during an Infopass as well?

[vizcard]

Getting a legislature's(Senator/congressman) letter not from your state be helpful? or do you need letters from your state and/or district?

most senators/congressmen won't entertain a request from someone outside their constituency. There is no incentive to them as you are not a future voter. Besides letters don't make any difference in general. Their office would need to do the work/follow up for it to have any impact.

If you are lucky enough to have your Sentor/Congressman on any relevant Committee (immigration, homeland security, judiciary), use them to the fullest extent possible.

[vizcard]

Also, to your point, when can we ask for an L2? Is it only when we open an SR over the phone, or can we ask for an L2 during an Infopass as well?

I haven't gone through the process personally but my guess its an over the phone type thing.

Others who have gone through the process may be able to help better.

[Spectator]

Interesting that one of the people with a 2007 PD who was "approved" in July when the dates were not Current has been contacted by USCIS to return the GC.

Hopefully, they will now officially approve the case and just send a corrected GC.


Posted by ei1996 (9) 17 hours 20 minutes ago

I got my green card on July 27, 2013 even before my priority date became current (Aug 01, 2013). Today I got a notice from USCIS that my application was approved in error. They are asking me to return my green card so that they can make corrections. I don't know what it means. If I think positively then they should just issue a new card by correcting the effective dates on that card but with USCIS you never know -:( I am going to return it and see what happens next. This madness would never end....

Anybody else got similar notices ?

[Pedro Gonzales]

Interesting that one of the people with a 2007 PD who was "approved" in July when the dates were not Current has been contacted by USCIS to return the GC.

Hopefully, they will now officially approve the case and just send a corrected GC.

His pain is so palpable when he says, "the madness will never end"

[Eb2_Dec07]

Dear friends, with great happiness , I want to share that I received the MAGIC message from USCIS this afternoon.

" On August 20, 2013, we mailed you a notice that we had registered this customer's new permanent resident status. Please follow any instructions on the notice. Your new permanent resident card should be mailed within 60 days following this registration or after you complete any ADIT processing referred to in the welcome notice, whichever is later. If you move before receiving your card, please call our customer service center at 1-800-375-5283."

My PD Dec 4th 2007 . I've been in a state of delightful shock for the last few hours. I'm grateful to this forum and all gurus and contributors who take their valuable time to answer and share their experiences and insights. I've personally gained a lot from the stories I hear here on this forum and knowledge I stood to gain over the last 2.5 yrs .

I'm specially looking forward to seeing Indiani's approval . Indiani, I think you should get yours this week. I'm rooting for your approval.

[qesehmk]

EB2 - great news. Thanks for sharing. We all are indeed waiting for Indiani to get his!

Enjoy the free life !
Dear friends, with great happiness , I want to share that I received the MAGIC message from USCIS this afternoon.

...
I'm specially looking forward to seeing Indiani's approval . Indiani, I think you should get yours this week. I'm rooting for your approval.

[Pedro Gonzales]

Congrats Eb2_Dec07, I was especially rooting for you and hoping there wouldn't be a delay because of your TSC to NSC transfer for selfish reasons.

Is Indiani the only one EB2I on our forum current in August still waiting for his GC?

[sakha13]

Dear friends, with great happiness , I want to share that I received the MAGIC message from USCIS this afternoon.

" On August 20, 2013, we mailed you a notice that we had registered this customer's new permanent resident status. Please follow any instructions on the notice. Your new permanent resident card should be mailed within 60 days following this registration or after you complete any ADIT processing referred to in the welcome notice, whichever is later. If you move before receiving your card, please call our customer service center at 1-800-375-5283."

My PD Dec 4th 2007 . I've been in a state of delightful shock for the last few hours. I'm grateful to this forum and all gurus and contributors who take their valuable time to answer and share their experiences and insights. I've personally gained a lot from the stories I hear here on this forum and knowledge I stood to gain over the last 2.5 yrs .

I'm specially looking forward to seeing Indiani's approval . Indiani, I think you should get yours this week. I'm rooting for your approval.

Congrats Eb2_2007, open that long kept bottle of wine today. Indiani me too rooting for you.

[Eb2_Dec07]

EB2 - great news. Thanks for sharing. We all are indeed waiting for Indiani to get his!

Enjoy the free life !

Thank you Q . Very happy indeed. Hoping the best for Indiani .

[Jagan01]

Dear friends, with great happiness , I want to share that I received the MAGIC message from USCIS this afternoon.

" On August 20, 2013, we mailed you a notice that we had registered this customer's new permanent resident status. Please follow any instructions on the notice. Your new permanent resident card should be mailed within 60 days following this registration or after you complete any ADIT processing referred to in the welcome notice, whichever is later. If you move before receiving your card, please call our customer service center at 1-800-375-5283."

My PD Dec 4th 2007 . I've been in a state of delightful shock for the last few hours. I'm grateful to this forum and all gurus and contributors who take their valuable time to answer and share their experiences and insights. I've personally gained a lot from the stories I hear here on this forum and knowledge I stood to gain over the last 2.5 yrs .

I'm specially looking forward to seeing Indiani's approval . Indiani, I think you should get yours this week. I'm rooting for your approval.

congratts eb2...

[Spectator]

Eb2_Dec07,

Congratulations!!

[Eb2_Dec07]

Congrats Eb2_Dec07, I was especially rooting for you and hoping there wouldn't be a delay because of your TSC to NSC transfer for selfish reasons.

Is Indiani the only one EB2I on our forum current in August still waiting for his GC?

Thank you Pedro .

[Eb2_Dec07]

Eb2_Dec07,

Congratulations!!

Thank you Spec . I dont have words to thank you for your valuable insights Spec. I really appreciate it a lot guru.

[Eb2_Dec07]

congratts eb2... Thank you Jagan

[Eb2_Dec07]

Congrats Eb2_2007, open that long kept bottle of wine today. Indiani me too rooting for you.

Thank you Sakha13. Indeed I had a 1996 cabarnet that I had been waiting for a few years to open for this day. Incidentally, after waiting too long, I couldnt wait longer and I had opened it just a few weeks ago. But I plan to buy a Chateau Montelena red to celebrate . Cheers

[Stemcell]

Dear friends, with great happiness , I want to share that I received the MAGIC message from USCIS this afternoon.

" On August 20, 2013, we mailed you a notice that we had registered this customer's new permanent resident status. Please follow any instructions on the notice. Your new permanent resident card should be mailed within 60 days following this registration or after you complete any ADIT processing referred to in the welcome notice, whichever is later. If you move before receiving your card, please call our customer service center at 1-800-375-5283."

My PD Dec 4th 2007 . I've been in a state of delightful shock for the last few hours. I'm grateful to this forum and all gurus and contributors who take their valuable time to answer and share their experiences and insights. I've personally gained a lot from the stories I hear here on this forum and knowledge I stood to gain over the last 2.5 yrs .

I'm specially looking forward to seeing Indiani's approval . Indiani, I think you should get yours this week. I'm rooting for your approval.



Congratulations Eb_Dec07 !!!!
Enjoy the moment...:)

[vizcard]

Thank you Sakha13. Indeed I had a 1996 cabarnet that I had been waiting for a few years to open for this day. Incidentally, after waiting too long, I couldnt wait longer and I had opened it just a few weeks ago. But I plan to buy a Chateau Montelena red to celebrate . Cheers

Congrats... 2008 was a good year for Montelena cabs. If you get older vintages even better... 2008 is still pretty young for my taste :) I would also recommend an 2008 Jean Louis Chave St. Joseph.. slightly on the expensive side but its excellent!

[Eb2_Dec07]

Congratulations Eb_Dec07 !!!!
Enjoy the moment...:)

Thank you Stemcell . It is indeed a very joyful moment . I'm still in an ecstatic shock .

[Eb2_Dec07]

Congrats... 2008 was a good year for Montelena cabs. If you get older vintages even better... 2008 is still pretty young for my taste :) I would also recommend an 2008 Jean Louis Chave St. Joseph.. slightly on the expensive side but its excellent!

Thank you Viz . You definitely have a refined taste in wine . I will definitely pick a 2008 Jean Louis ...it will be worth it . I wish you all the very best Viz.

[MATT2012]

EB2 Dec 07,

Congratulations, Happy for you. You should have your GC in hand by Saturday or latest by Monday.

I know, we have atleast four to five more approvals to come, including Indiani. Looking forward to see those approval posts.

[indiani]

Thank you Stemcell . It is indeed a very joyful moment . I'm still in an ecstatic shock .

Congrats !

[indiani]

"Service records indicate that your recently approved I-140 petition has been connected with your I-485 application. Further, your I-485 application is currently assigned to an officer. Although assigned, we cannot predict the date the case may actually receive review.

If you have not received a decision or other notice of action on this case within 90 days, please contact us for updates."

Response to attorney's office from uscis today ,
paralegal sent an e-mail on august 1st reminding them that PD is current for me.
I have applied concurrently 140+485 in april 2012 ( with request to retain old PD nov 2007 which was on old-140) , so this attachment doesn't make much sense as the 2nd and latest 140 and the one and only 485 are applied together .

[Eb2_Dec07]

EB2 Dec 07,

Congratulations, Happy for you. You should have your GC in hand by Saturday or latest by Monday.

I know, we have atleast four to five more approvals to come, including Indiani. Looking forward to see those approval posts.

Thank you Matt .

[Eb2_Dec07]

Congrats !

Thank you Indiani . Waiting for your good news soon .

[IJune05]

June 2005 here (:

Congrats Eb2_Dec07, I was especially rooting for you and hoping there wouldn't be a delay because of your TSC to NSC transfer for selfish reasons.

Is Indiani the only one EB2I on our forum current in August still waiting for his GC?

[IJune05]

Congrats EB2_Dec07

Enjoy the next phase !

[indiani]

The trackitt unapproved cases data appears more unreliable the more closely we read it.

just now I went through many profiles in November 2007 who are pending approval in august, some just posted message that they got GC but never updated, some have never updated their profile in more than a year.

Overall the people who are left are perhaps few (3-4) thousands total at the max.,

with 8 business days left (+ some Saturday approvals), I think we just need few good approval days to finish almost all cases.

[assimilation]

Looks like my cases are going through approval a second time.. weired.. Received another round of decision emails today.. the first pair is with USPS in transit..

On August 20, 2013, we mailed you a notice that we had registered this customer's new permanent resident status. Please follow any instructions on the notice. Your new permanent resident card should be mailed within 60 days following this registration or after you complete any ADIT processing referred to in the welcome notice, whichever is later. If you move before receiving your card, please call our customer service center at 1-800-375-5283.


Folks, I received decision emails today with below verbiage; Not quite sure if it is saying approvedShould I celebrate or hold peace??

Your Case Status: Decision


On August 15, 2013, we mailed you a notice that we had registered this customer's new permanent resident status. Please follow any instructions on the notice. Your new permanent resident card should be mailed within 60 days following this registration or after you complete any ADIT processing referred to in the welcome notice, whichever is later. If you move before receiving your card, please call our customer service center at 1-800-375-5283.


During this step the formal decision (approved/denied) is written and the decision notice is mailed and/or emailed to the applicant/petitioner. You can use our current processing time to gauge when you can expect to receive a final decision.

[mvkrishna]

I haven't got my approval yet, but got a response to the interlinking email I sent on Aug 2nd (on Aug 20). It mentions that my case has already been interlinked and assigned to an officer. They cannot predict when it will be approved but if I don't hear within 90 days to contact USCIS.

The good news is that it's assigned to an officer, but I heard the same news from my infopass appointment on Aug 6th, and it's still the same even after 2 weeks. Is this normal or only interfiling cases left as such?

[druvraj]

Was wondering if SR is required as my company immigration lawyers are going to send USCIS a letter to process my case in sept when I will become current. Will this be like a SR? Infopass is another thing I guess. What is the difference between SR and attorney letter? Thank you in advance for your answers.

[mvkrishna]

I haven't got my approval yet, but got a response to the interlinking email I sent on Aug 2nd (on Aug 20). It mentions that my case has already been interlinked and assigned to an officer. They cannot predict when it will be approved but if I don't hear within 90 days to contact USCIS.

The good news is that it's assigned to an officer, but I heard the same news from my infopass appointment on Aug 6th, and it's still the same even after 2 weeks. Is this normal or only interfiling cases left as such?


Update. Received an RFE email just now. More delays...

[tackle]

I called USCIS and opened a SR as it has been 60 days since my case status changed to "RFE Response Review". I was told that the SR will be assigned to an officer within 15 days and I should expect a response within 30 days. I have no hope.

[Eb2_Dec07]

Update. Received an RFE email just now. More delays...

mvk , if you are able to respond back to RFE asap , I think as asoon as it is reviewed you shd see approval .

I know a case from 2012 who got approved with in 1 week after rfe response . I hope it is a minor one and you get approved soon .

[pakkineni]

Looks like my cases are going through approval a second time.. weired.. Received another round of decision emails today.. the first pair is with USPS in transit..

On August 20, 2013, we mailed you a notice that we had registered this customer's new permanent resident status. Please follow any instructions on the notice. Your new permanent resident card should be mailed within 60 days following this registration or after you complete any ADIT processing referred to in the welcome notice, whichever is later. If you move before receiving your card, please call our customer service center at 1-800-375-5283.

I think it is normal, i too received another decision email after getting the usps tracking number.

[mvkrishna]

mvk , if you are able to respond back to RFE asap , I think as asoon as it is reviewed you shd see approval .

I know a case from 2012 who got approved with in 1 week after rfe response . I hope it is a minor one and you get approved soon .

Thank you for your kind words. I am hoping for the best myself, but there is this tiny voice inside which reeks of pessimism. Too many negative experiences will do that

[IJune05]

I believe pessimism is a natural reaction keeping in mind that no one in "that" organization follows a standard process. I have been fighting with myself to stop thinking of what if scenarios as I have no way to know what is going on

If you have a minute, can you respond to my PM

Thnx!


Thank you for your kind words. I am hoping for the best myself, but there is this tiny voice inside which reeks of pessimism. Too many negative experiences will do that

[assimilation]

Thanks pakkineni.. good to know that.. It is sad to see such erroneous steps when hundreds of folks are still waiting for a decision. I hope they don't waste any more time and processing on approved cases..


I think it is normal, i too received another decision email after getting the usps tracking number.

[mysati]

Thanks pakkineni.. good to know that.. It is sad to see such erroneous steps when hundreds of folks are still waiting for a decision. I hope they don't waste any more time and processing on approved cases..

Hi,

I think it is a bug in their system and don't think manual intervention is there in the process. I actually got six emails with various statuses going back and forth after I got my approval email. It even went back to 'Initial Review' and I panicked a bit but heard several people got similar emails as well. For all practical purposes, you can just dis them. You should be getting the physical cards almost a week after your approval email.

BTW, I even got an email about my EAD approval six months after I got my GC. :)

[indiani]

Para-legal working on my case suggested info-pass. How long will it take to get appointment , does it make any difference?

[IJune05]

How long does it take = I tried today and the earliest available date in my area is Sept 3
Does it make a difference = IMHO No but it may not hurt

Hope this helps!

Para-legal working on my case suggested info-pass. How long will it take to get appointment , does it make any difference?

[indiani]

How long does it take = I tried today and the earliest available date in my area is Sept 3
Does it make a difference = IMHO No but it may not hurt

Hope this helps!

I am thinking about taking appointment as congressional inquiry/ speaking with L2/ attorney's email request all have been exhausted and the Para-legal some how thinks that info pass can help as she has seen one approval after info-pass. ( perhaps a coincidence but for her to make a conclusion one case was enough ..LOL).

slowly the possibility of having to wait another year is sinking into me, I will wait till last week of September before using AC21 unless October dates will stay the same ( which I think is extremely unlikely but as Q thinks there is a small chance they might stay the same as September)

addendum: just took an info-pass appt., surprisingly there is only one day - September 4th morning available and I have to pick a time within 2 hour timeframe.

[Pedro Gonzales]

There's a thread on trackitt listing applicants that are current in Aug but haven't received their GCs yet. There are 80 people on the list. If we assume that list is 50% complete among trackitt users, we're looking at 160 trackitt users that are still waiting, and if we throw in a 6% conversion ratio, it could be about 2,700 applicants still left over. Of course, if only 20% of trackitt users had populated that list, that number would be 6,700.

Another way to look at it would be to compare the tracker # of approvals (about 80) with the # still waiting on this list (also 80). That tells me we only have half the approvals, thus far.

[indiani]

There's a thread on trackitt listing applicants that are current in Aug but haven't received their GCs yet. There are 80 people on the list. If we assume that list is 50% complete among trackitt users, we're looking at 160 trackitt users that are still waiting, and if we throw in a 6% conversion ratio, it could be about 2,700 applicants still left over. Of course, if only 20% of trackitt users had populated that list, that number would be 6,700.

Another way to look at it would be to compare the tracker # of approvals (about 80) with the # still waiting on this list (also 80). That tells me we only have half the approvals, thus far.

I counted all Nov 2007 august approvals listed trackitt and also all approvable cases waiting ( not accounting for people not posting their approvals due to various reasons)..

My final impression: overall looks like anywhere between 30% to 50% left out so far , that translates to 4 to 6 thousand are still waiting.

My main concern is that the rate of approvals aren't picking up pace overall which I expected.

In September even if 4K are added to 7.3K= 11.3K

If they are able to process 8K this months, they wont be able to process a whole lot more next month as the limiting factor if the personnel and time.
Finally as I mentioned few days ago I expect about 4K approvable cases left away ( I hope its somewhat lower)

[Spectator]

There's a thread on trackitt listing applicants that are current in Aug but haven't received their GCs yet. There are 80 people on the list. If we assume that list is 50% complete among trackitt users, we're looking at 160 trackitt users that are still waiting, and if we throw in a 6% conversion ratio, it could be about 2,700 applicants still left over. Of course, if only 20% of trackitt users had populated that list, that number would be 6,700.

Another way to look at it would be to compare the tracker # of approvals (about 80) with the # still waiting on this list (also 80). That tells me we only have half the approvals, thus far.I also looked at this subject using Trackitt figures.

About 400 have been approved in August to date and there certainly could be the same number to come again with a PD prior to 2008.

There are only another 7 working days in August after today (which has seen quite low approval numbers for the second day running). The final total for August might be around 600, which is about the maximum USCIS has adjudicated in a month.

In September, somewhere between 600-700 further Trackitt cases will become Current with a PD earlier than the Cut Off Date.

Even accepting that not all September cases will ever be updated, it's a bit worrying considering the current processing rate. We have Labor Day coming up, so the start of September may well be slow as people tag days on each side of the the extended Holiday Weekend.

If a couple of hundred are still left from August and September cases require another 400, then USCIS would have to approve another 600 updated Trackitt cases in September.

It might be possible to process all of them, but I think USCIS would need the whole of September to have a chance of doing so.

[Niksammy]

I am thinking about taking appointment as congressional inquiry/ speaking with L2/ attorney's email request all have been exhausted and the Para-legal some how thinks that info pass can help as she has seen one approval after info-pass. ( perhaps a coincidence but for her to make a conclusion one case was enough ..LOL).

slowly the possibility of having to wait another year is sinking into me, I will wait till last week of September before using AC21 unless October dates will stay the same ( which I think is extremely unlikely but as Q thinks there is a small chance they might stay the same as September)

addendum: just took an info-pass appt., surprisingly there is only one day - September 4th morning available and I have to pick a time within 2 hour timeframe.

Just thought of sharing my InfoPass experience in Manhattan/NYC Downtown office on 20 Aug 2013. I unfortunately was directed to a pretty nasty woman officer (based on token number) who refused to give me any information other than asking me to send a mail to Texas Service Center regarding my case status and getting a response from them in 90 days.

She refused to let me know if my application is being adjudicated under EB2 or EB3 category (though Fragomen already sent me USCIS response on 13th Aug that my application is being considered under EB2). When I asked her if my application has been assigned to an officer, she bluntly suggested that she does not know. She went on to state that I do not even fall under NYC Field office and I had no business to come to NYC office to check my case status.

Icing on the cake was when she insisted that my EB2I PD (12/12/2006) is not even current in Aug 2013 :mad:, but will be current starting 1st Sept 2013.

[Spectator]

Niksammy,

Sorry to hear that.

[gclabor07]

Indiani,

I don't know if this is co-incidence for me or not. It very well could be because on 8/15 several TSC applicants mentioned getting magic email around 9:30am like I did. But for what it is worth, here is what happened to me.

Like you and others on this forum, I was anxious about getting my file picked up (EB2 I, July 2007 priority, Nov 2011 filer). I called L2 on 8/5 and spoke with a lady. She didn't provide any useful info, only said I should wait 8-10 days and call again. So, I called again in 9 days on 8/14. I spoke with another L2 officer. I told him that I was asked to call back this week to see if an officer can provide with any better status on my case. This L2 officer took my info like birth date, country of birth, address etc. and put me on hold for 5 minutes. He came back and said case is in the system. I tried to probe him a little bit. Then he said, he could have USCIS send me a letter stating I should wait for 90 days. This sounded to me like he was going to create SR. Sensing that, I told him I don't want to create any SR. My purpose was simply to understand status. I also told him not to bother with SR as I didn't want to put any burden on IOs because I know they are busy right now. The call ended there. Next day, I got the magic email for me. My wife got RFE which I'm waiting to receive.

Not sure if the L2 was doing something to expedite my case while I was on hold for 5 minutes. Or this must have been a total co-incidence. Also, the second L2 officer was a latino guy, greeted me in Spanish. I greeted him in Spanish when I ended the call. May be that helped, I would never know. This may sound warm and fuzzy. But, I know you're very anxious due to your job situation.

I hope this helps.




I counted all Nov 2007 august approvals listed trackitt and also all approvable cases waiting ( not accounting for people not posting their approvals due to various reasons)..

My final impression: overall looks like anywhere between 30% to 50% left out so far , that translates to 4 to 6 thousand are still waiting.

My main concern is that the rate of approvals aren't picking up pace overall which I expected.

In September even if 4K are added to 7.3K= 11.3K

If they are able to process 8K this months, they wont be able to process a whole lot more next month as the limiting factor if the personnel and time.
Finally as I mentioned few days ago I expect about 4K approvable cases left away ( I hope its somewhat lower)

[rajkraj]

Tricky situation?

My PD is OCT 2006, EB3 --> EB2 case, actually on july 11th uscis issued RFE's to me and dependent..We received copy of dependent ref thru old attorney but not mine...thru my new attorney we submitted dependent ref docs and requested my ref details on July 23 rd...Surprisingly I have received my ref details thru my other attorney (submitted ac21 thru him) on 1st Aug and sent ref docs on 2nd and uscis received on 5th morning.

Both cases approved on 8th Aug. and received green cards on 14th Aug.

But on 6th Aug usics issued Rfe my case and after receiving it on 9th Aug we came to know that it is duplicate rfe (same old rfe)...I am thinking that since my new attorney requested a copy of my ref uscis issued on 6th and for safe side my attorney re-submitted copys of ref.

Here is tricky part on 14th Aug 4:15pm my case status changed to USPS delivered green card exactly after 1 hr (5:15 pm) it changed to 'Response review status' .....since then my case status stuck there....so day by day i am getting worry about my case status ..Gurus pls adivise...

[qesehmk]

Niksammy - I spent about 6 months last year in NY where my client was located. So used to camp in hotel in midtown. I am a big fan of NY. But my observation is that post 911 some NY folks especially jewshish folks treat all indians as if they drove those damn planes into WTC buildings. So my solution was - I was equally nasty to whoever was bitchy with me. Generally speaking that's how I treat anybody who mistreats me. There are just too many of them and no point in taking shit when you don't have to. I hope you next time you get some shit -- you give it back to that person. Green card will come when it will.

p.s. - My FDBL lawyer was the same way. In fact she was a paralegal and used to treat me as if i am a beggar.


Just thought of sharing my InfoPass experience in Manhattan/NYC Downtown office on 20 Aug 2013. I unfortunately was directed to a pretty nasty woman officer (based on token number) who refused to give me any information other than asking me to send a mail to Texas Service Center regarding my case status and getting a response from them in 90 days.

She refused to let me know if my application is being adjudicated under EB2 or EB3 category (though Fragomen already sent me USCIS response on 13th Aug that my application is being considered under EB2). When I asked her if my application has been assigned to an officer, she bluntly suggested that she does not know. She went on to state that I do not even fall under NYC Field office and I had no business to come to NYC office to check my case status.

Icing on the cake was when she insisted that my EB2I PD (12/12/2006) is not even current in Aug 2013 :mad:, but will be current starting 1st Sept 2013.

[indiani]

Just thought of sharing my InfoPass experience in Manhattan/NYC Downtown office on 20 Aug 2013. I unfortunately was directed to a pretty nasty woman officer (based on token number) who refused to give me any information other than asking me to send a mail to Texas Service Center regarding my case status and getting a response from them in 90 days.

She refused to let me know if my application is being adjudicated under EB2 or EB3 category (though Fragomen already sent me USCIS response on 13th Aug that my application is being considered under EB2). When I asked her if my application has been assigned to an officer, she bluntly suggested that she does not know. She went on to state that I do not even fall under NYC Field office and I had no business to come to NYC office to check my case status.

Icing on the cake was when she insisted that my EB2I PD (12/12/2006) is not even current in Aug 2013 :mad:, but will be current starting 1st Sept 2013.

I never wanted to think about info-pass until I spoke with Para legal to discuss the response from uscis and to see if there is anything left to do, at that time she suggested info-pass but I think info-pass officers are not in any better position than L2 ( which we can do fro home/ our office based on convenience as they speak for less than a minute anyway).

for me taking morning off might be difficult especially with my job situation. even though I took appointment for September 4th, I might just cancel it next week as I don't see any logical scenario how it will increase the chances of my GC., it will just remind my employer that I still am going through this GC stuff as I need to inform them before taking half day off as I am in the clinic ( sort of ) these days.

Thanks for sharing your story, when there is no accountability and no incentive to provide good service or more service , it just turns out to be pathetic service.

[indiani]

Tricky situation?

My PD is OCT 2006, EB3 --> EB2 case, actually on july 11th uscis issued RFE's to me and dependent..We received copy of dependent ref thru old attorney but not mine...thru my new attorney we submitted dependent ref docs and requested my ref details on July 23 rd...Surprisingly I have received my ref details thru my other attorney (submitted ac21 thru him) on 1st Aug and sent ref docs on 2nd and uscis received on 5th morning.

Both cases approved on 8th Aug. and received green cards on 14th Aug.

But on 6th Aug usics issued Rfe my case and after receiving it on 9th Aug we came to know that it is duplicate rfe (same old rfe)...I am thinking that since my new attorney requested a copy of my ref uscis issued on 6th and for safe side my attorney re-submitted copys of ref.

Here is tricky part on 14th Aug 4:15pm my case status changed to USPS delivered green card exactly after 1 hr (5:15 pm) it changed to 'Response review status' .....since then my case status stuck there....so day by day i am getting worry about my case status ..Gurus pls adivise...

once they have approved your GC ( as long as there is no error or fraud), they can't cancel your GC, its illegal, you can sue them if they try to take it away.

[Pedro Gonzales]

Tricky situation?
Here is tricky part on 14th Aug 4:15pm my case status changed to USPS delivered green card exactly after 1 hr (5:15 pm) it changed to 'Response review status' .....since then my case status stuck there....so day by day i am getting worry about my case status ..Gurus pls adivise...

I don't think you need to worry about anything. You have the green card (do not return it), you've responded to the RFE, twice before the GC was received, so you're fine. I'd ask your lawyer to follow up to close the loop with the USCIS so as to resolve confusions on their end.

[Niksammy]

Niksammy,

Sorry to hear that.

I was not too surprised because there many people on Trackitt who have described not very pleasant encounters with L2 officers. Since people who handle info pass appointments at field offices are similar to L2 officers, a part of me was expecting that I might not get any new information.

[Niksammy]

Niksammy - I spent about 6 months last year in NY where my client was located. So used to camp in hotel in midtown. I am a big fan of NY. But my observation is that post 911 some NY folks especially jewshish folks treat all indians as if they drove those damn planes into WTC buildings. So my solution was - I was equally nasty to whoever was bitchy with me. Generally speaking that's how I treat anybody who mistreats me. There are just too many of them and no point in taking shit when you don't have to. I hope you next time you get some shit -- you give it back to that person. Green card will come when it will.

p.s. - My FDBL lawyer was the same way. In fact she was a paralegal and used to treat me as if i am a beggar.

Thanks for the kind words. Unfortunately, people in NYC are a bit rude as compared to other places in the US. It doesn't make too much sense to feel bad about it - may be the USCIS officer had a bad day, was frustrated and took it out on me.

I feel happy that I have tried everything I could do to ensure that USCIS looks at my application - from interfile to asking FDBL to use Streamline process to opening a SR to asking my congresswoman for help. Need to just wait and watch. Hoping to get greened soon :).

To the contrary, my experience with FDBL has been nothing but pleasant (much better than 2 law firms I have dealt with earlier - my old company's lawyers and law firm used by my wife's hospital for her H1). I had read about all the bad experience you had with them and was pretty concerned, but they(FDBL) have gone out of way to accommodate all my requests. The reason for this could be that forced my HR to ensure that I communicate directly with their Client Services Manager instead of stupid paralegals (who all think that they are more qualified than US Attorney General ).

[indiani]

Thursday will be hopefully "high approval day" expecting 35 on trackitt ;)

[sam96_77]

Thursday will be hopefully "high approval day" expecting 35 on trackitt ;)

An update on my case. I received the magic email yesterday for both me and spouse.
PD Dec 2007, RD Dec 2011. Missed the boat in 2012. Although I came to this forum once every other day to read but I tried to refrain from posting and checking various other forums frequently. This time around when dates were current I approached my congressman and senator both for help after 1st week( my attorney said if it cannot help it won't hurt anything). Senate office is backed up and needed 2 weeks to just look at my request. Congressman office was more accessible but they are still waiting for a response back. I can't say last few weeks were not stressful or I didn't think about GC but was trying my best to stay engage with work, family and friends and exercise, in that order.

I found this forum almost 2 years ago and has been my soul source of information. Seldom I ventured to trackitt or other sites. I think this forum has lots and lots of useful information and very knowledgeable people who go out of their way to help or answer any question.

My special thanks to gurus for all their work. Just to name a few without which this post will be incomplete are: Q, Spe, Viz, matt, veni, pedro, nishant, tackle, indiani, and others. This is simply amazing work.

Nishant used to be an active participant but I haven't seen him here lately. This is just a request to him if he reads this post to continue to post and help others as I remember from last year you added a lot of valuable post to this forum.

Thank you everyone. I believe I cannot quit this forum so will continue to read and hopefully someday I can contribute in a positive way.

Best of luck to everyone who is current or will be current next month.

Indiani I feel like tera number bi jaroor ayega aur jald hi ayega. Best of luck.

[Spectator]

sam96_77,

Many congratulations!!

Glad to hear you will be sticking around.

[GCKnowHow]

......when she insisted that my EB2I PD (12/12/2006) is not even current in Aug 2013.....

Sorry for you.
This is exactly what that article few posts above states.

[qesehmk]

Big Congrats Sam!! Wish you the best.

An update on my case. I received the magic email yesterday for both me and spouse. Big Congrats Sam!! Wish you the best.
..
I found this forum almost 2 years ago and has been my soul source of information. Seldom ****entured to trackitt or other sites. I think this forum has lots and lots of useful information and very knowledgeable people who go out of their way to help or answer any question. My special thanks to gurus for all their work. Just to name a few without which this post will be incomplete are: Q, Spe, Viz, matt, veni, pedro, nishant, tackle, indiani, and others. This is simply amazing work. So kind of you to say that. Thank you.

Nishant used to be an active participant but I haven't seen him here lately. This is just a request to him if he reads this post to continue to post and help others as I remember from last year you added a lot of valuable post to this forum. Nishant has become a manager in his company. I know he keeps posting once a while and checks forum regularly. Nishantbhai - are you listening.

Thank you everyone. I believe I cannot quit this forum so will continue to read and hopefully someday I can contribute in a positive way. - Sam - certainly other people will benefit from your experience now. But if you can't visit regularly that too is perfectly alright. Do what makes you happy!

..
Indiani I feel like tera number bi jaroor ayega aur jald hi ayega. That reminds me of Anoop Kumar in Chalati ka naam gaadi. "O munnu tera to ho gayaa pyaar Ab mera kyaa hoga". Everybody is waiting for Indiani's.

[ragx08]

An update on my case. I received the magic email yesterday for both me and spouse.
PD Dec 2007, RD Dec 2011. Missed the boat in 2012. Although I came to this forum once every other day to read but I tried to refrain from posting and checking various other forums frequently. This time around when dates were current I approached my congressman and senator both for help after 1st week( my attorney said if it cannot help it won't hurt anything). Senate office is backed up and needed 2 weeks to just look at my request. Congressman office was more accessible but they are still waiting for a response back. I can't say last few weeks were not stressful or I didn't think about GC but was trying my best to stay engage with work, family and friends and exercise, in that order.

I found this forum almost 2 years ago and has been my soul source of information. Seldom ****entured to trackitt or other sites. I think this forum has lots and lots of useful information and very knowledgeable people who go out of their way to help or answer any question.

My special thanks to gurus for all their work. Just to name a few without which this post will be incomplete are: Q, Spe, Viz, matt, veni, pedro, nishant, tackle, indiani, and others. This is simply amazing work.

Nishant used to be an active participant but I haven't seen him here lately. This is just a request to him if he reads this post to continue to post and help others as I remember from last year you added a lot of valuable post to this forum.

Thank you everyone. I believe I cannot quit this forum so will continue to read and hopefully someday I can contribute in a positive way.

Best of luck to everyone who is current or will be current next month.

Indiani I feel like tera number bi jaroor ayega aur jald hi ayega. Best of luck.

Congratulations Sam!!!

[Eb2_Dec07]

Congratulations Sam . Enjoy green life.

Indiani , waiting for your post with the news

[Eb2_Dec07]

This morning I saw another round of emails circulating . One again for CPO and another again decision . Case status online flips from CPO to decision .

[ragx08]

This morning I saw another round of emails circulating . One again for CPO and another again decision . Case status online flips from CPO to decision .

From what I remember - that is normal.

[Jagan01]

Big Congrats Sam!! Wish you the best.

Congrats sam

[indiani]

"Indiani I feel like tera number bi jaroor ayega aur jald hi ayega"

LOL... best line of the day :)

Congrats sam and enjoy the moment, I think there are few things in life we don't have to wait this long,

few things in life that we are more in control and happens much less timeframe than GC:

getting Degree (including medical degree)
saving enough to buy a house ( most of us did)
having a child
perhaps becoming an astronaut and going to space ( if we want to and can afford)

only thing not on the list is "one way trip to mars "

[MATT2012]

sam96_77,

Congrats, Nice to see more approvals coming in. Looking forward to see many more posts from you.

[Spectator]

The latest update.

A little summary of where the August approvals are currently (which will immediately out of date). It's, as usual, based on primary applicants who have updated the Trackitt I-485 tracker with the approval.

Total to date - 407

August ----- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22
Number ---- 20 - 25 - 11 -- 0 - 27 - 32 - 42 - 27 - 33 - 11 -- 0 - 36 - 24 - 15 - 30 -- 9 - 11 -- 0 - 37 -- 5 - 12 -- 1


Service Center

Nebraska - 202 -- 49.63%
Texas ---- 204 -- 50.12%
California - 1 --- 0.25%
Vermont ---- 0 --- 0.00%

Total ---- 407 - 100.00%


Priority Date

PD ---- EB2 -- EB3 -- Total
2003 ---- 0 ---- 0 ------ 0
2004 --- 20 ---- 3 ----- 23
2005 --- 40 ---- 5 ----- 45
2006 --- 56 ---- 5 ----- 61
2007 -- 276 ---- 1 ---- 277
2008 ---- 1 ---- 0 ------ 1

Total - 393 --- 14 ---- 407


Pre 2007 PD - 129 -- 31.70%
2007 PD ----- 277 -- 68.06%
2008 PD ------- 1 --- 0.24%

Total ------- 407 - 100.00%


Roughly, I believe that equates to approx 6.0 - 7.2k approvals in August, depending on the conversion ratio used .

Prior to August, there were 129 approvals in FY2013.

[JosephM]

I sincerely pray that "Indiani" gets his Green card soon. This forum will be delighted to see that soon.

[SsSkNiNa]

We have got the approval email today.

Details: TSC | PD - Oct 2007 | EAD - Jan 2012 | RFE - June 14th | RFE Response - July 1st | Approved today

This blog has been very informative and supportive since the dates became current. Thanks for all the support.

[Jagan01]

The latest update.

A little summary of where the August approvals are currently (which will immediately out of date). It's, as usual, based on primary applicants who have updated the Trackitt I-485 tracker with the approval.

Total to date - 407

August ----- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22
Number ---- 20 - 25 - 11 -- 0 - 27 - 32 - 42 - 27 - 33 - 11 -- 0 - 36 - 24 - 15 - 30 -- 9 - 11 -- 0 - 37 -- 5 - 12 -- 1


Service Center

Nebraska - 202 -- 49.63%
Texas ---- 204 -- 50.12%
California - 1 --- 0.25%
Vermont ---- 0 --- 0.00%

Total ---- 407 - 100.00%


Priority Date

PD ---- EB2 -- EB3 -- Total
2003 ---- 0 ---- 0 ------ 0
2004 --- 20 ---- 3 ----- 23
2005 --- 40 ---- 5 ----- 45
2006 --- 56 ---- 5 ----- 61
2007 -- 276 ---- 1 ---- 277
2008 ---- 1 ---- 0 ------ 1

Total - 393 --- 14 ---- 407


Pre 2007 PD - 129 -- 31.70%
2007 PD ----- 277 -- 68.06%
2008 PD ------- 1 --- 0.24%

Total ------- 407 - 100.00%


Roughly, I believe that equates to approx 6.0 - 7.2k approvals in August, depending on the conversion ratio used .

Prior to August, there were 129 approvals in FY2013.

Spec,
thanks a lot for the update. I notice that your updates are so organized and you have the patience to keep doing this consistently. Appreciate it.

From your update it looks like there are anywhere around 6k-7k approvals. I do not understand why people are saying that USCIS might not be able to process applications, etc.

The COD was Jan 01, 2008 for Aug and that translated to 8050 pending applications. This means that the maximum number of applications that USCIS could have processed in Aug was 8050 and they seem to be pretty much on target as they have completed approximately 6.5k already. This is the 16th working day out of the 22 working days (I am only counting mon-fri). This translates to 72% working days and in that they have completed 80% of applications. Statistically they are ahead of time and may be they run out of cases before end of next week.

This is also good news for all those who are waiting with PDs prior to Jan 1, 2008 as most have chances to be greened.

[Niksammy]

Spec,
thanks a lot for the update. I notice that your updates are so organized and you have the patience to keep doing this consistently. Appreciate it.

From your update it looks like there are anywhere around 6k-7k approvals. I do not understand why people are saying that USCIS might not be able to process applications, etc.

The COD was Jan 01, 2008 for Aug and that translated to 8050 pending applications. This means that the maximum number of applications that USCIS could have processed in Aug was 8050 and they seem to be pretty much on target as they have completed approximately 6.5k already. This is the 16th working day out of the 22 working days (I am only counting mon-fri). This translates to 72% working days and in that they have completed 80% of applications. Statistically they are ahead of time and may be they run out of cases before end of next week.

This is also good news for all those who are waiting with PDs prior to Jan 1, 2008 as most have chances to be greened.

You need to add approximately 4000-5000 to the 8050 number prior to Jan 1, 2008 to include porters who were not part of the demand data (who ported after May 2012 when dates retrogressed).

[sandyn16]

What is the difference between I485 supervisor and officer? In some updates it is mentioned "going to be assigned to officer".

I got update from congressmen saying

" A request has been sent to the I485 supervisor for the files .. to be reviewed and your constituents should receive a decision or notice of other action in 30 days"

Is supervisor any different from officer? This seems more like a standard generic response.

[Jagan01]

You need to add approximately 4000-5000 to the 8050 number prior to Jan 1, 2008 to include porters who were not part of the demand data (who ported after May 2012 when dates retrogressed).

The 8050 demand is as of July 2013. The includes all possible porters that could have ported prior to July 2013.

the people who became current in Aug 2013 and applying EAD first time are anyways not going to get GC before Oct so those do not need to be counted. Hence the demand is 8050, no more and no less.

[Pedro Gonzales]

The 8050 demand is as of July 2013. The includes all possible porters that could have ported prior to July 2013.

the people who became current in Aug 2013 are anyways not going to get GC before Oct so those do not need to be counted. Hence the demand is 8050, no more and no less.

That is not correct, Jagan. Someone who has applied for an EB3 I485 (so pre July 2007 PD) and has interfiled with his EB2I140 prior to Aug 1, 2013 will not be counted in demand until then, and at that point he will just get his green card, so he won't be in the demand data at all.

Only people who became current in Aug 2013 with a PD of pre July 2007 are the only ones who will not get their GC this FY.

Niksammy is right, you need to add the porters with PD before July 2007 to that 8050. I think 4,000 to 5,000 is on the high side (because about 3,000 would already have got their green cards on a monthly basis), but it is not an unreasonable number.

[Jagan01]

That is not correct, Jagan. Someone who has applied for an EB3 I485 (so pre July 2007 PD) and has interfiled with his EB2I140 prior to Aug 1, 2013 will not be counted in demand until then, and at that point he will just get his green card, so he won't be in the demand data at all.

Only people who became current in Aug 2013 with a PD of pre July 2007 are the only ones who will not get their GC this FY.

Niksammy is right, you need to add the porters with PD before July 2007 to that 8050. I think 4,000 to 5,000 is on the high side (because about 3,000 would already have got their green cards on a monthly basis), but it is not an unreasonable number.

Agreed. I stand corrected as I missed out the EB3 - EB2 interfillers. Hopefully no visas are wasted eventually but after factoring in the 4000 possible porters it looks like they need to pick up speed to use up all the visa numbers.

I am assuming that CO moved the dates considering the demand + porting (interfilers that filed in first 10 days of Aug). And further he moved it in Sept by 6 months. If he has made the necessary calculations and moved the sep date then surely there are a lot more visas available and they need to process faster.

[Pedro Gonzales]

I did a deep dive into that thread on trackitt listing people still waiting, and here is my summary.

Of the 2007 PDs, only 3 out of 42 (7%) waiting are NSC applicants, the rest are all TSC.
Of the 2006 PDs, only 1 out of 11 (9%) are NSC applicants.
Of the 2005 PDs, 5 out of 15 (33%) are NSC applicants.
Of the 2004 PDs, 0 out of 7 are NSC applicants.

Given Spec's figure above showing that TSC and NSC are approving the same number of applications every day, but TSC has far more open applications left than NSC; we can conclude that 1) TSC has a much larger load than NSC, and perhaps b) the July RFEs are slowing down TSC.

Also interesting, Spec shows 31% of approvals being pre-2007, whereas my numbers show that 44% of remaining applications are pre-2007. Conclusion: both centers appear to be approving 2007 applicants at the expense of porters. That much is at least clearly visible with NSC, where 67% of the remaining applicants are pre-2007 PDs.

[Spectator]

I did a deep dive into that thread on trackitt listing people still waiting, and here is my summary.

Of the 2007 PDs, only 3 out of 42 (7%) waiting are NSC applicants, the rest are all TSC.
Of the 2006 PDs, only 1 out of 11 (9%) are NSC applicants.
Of the 2005 PDs, 5 out of 15 (33%) are NSC applicants.
Of the 2004 PDs, 0 out of 7 are NSC applicants.

Given Spec's figure above showing that TSC and NSC are approving the same number of applications every day, but TSC has far more open applications left than NSC; we can conclude that 1) TSC has a much larger load than NSC, and perhaps b) the July RFEs are slowing down TSC.

Also interesting, Spec shows 31% of approvals being pre-2007, whereas my numbers show that 44% of remaining applications are pre-2007. Conclusion: both centers appear to be approving 2007 applicants at the expense of porters. That much is at least clearly visible with NSC, where 67% of the remaining applicants are pre-2007 PDs.Pedro,

I won't comment about your figures because I have not had a look myself.

The final paragraph assumes that all years are equally represented on Trackitt. I don't think that is necessarily true.

2007 PDs appear to have a larger % representation on Trackitt than earlier EB2 years and that those years are in turn higher than EB3, where a number of porting cases were originally shown on Trackitt.

If so, 2007 PDs need a larger number of Trackitt cases approved than earlier years to represent the same "real" number.

It's another complication to potentially deal with.

[Pedro Gonzales]

The latest update.

A little summary of where the August approvals are currently (which will immediately out of date). It's, as usual, based on primary applicants who have updated the Trackitt I-485 tracker with the approval.

Total to date - 407

August ----- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22
Number ---- 20 - 25 - 11 -- 0 - 27 - 32 - 42 - 27 - 33 - 11 -- 0 - 36 - 24 - 15 - 30 -- 9 - 11 -- 0 - 37 -- 5 - 12 -- 1



There are now 27 approvals on trackitt today (based on the thread, not tracker). I wonder how that compares to other days thread count (as against the tracker count). Indiani have you been keeping track of that?

[Pedro Gonzales]

Pedro,

I won't comment about your figures because I have not had a look myself.

The final paragraph assumes that all years are equally represented on Trackitt. I don't think that is necessarily true.

2007 PDs appear to have a larger % representation on Trackitt than earlier EB2 years and that those years are in turn higher than EB3, where a number of porting cases were originally shown on Trackitt.

If so, 2007 PDs need a larger number of Trackitt cases approved than earlier years to represent the same "real" number.

It's another complication to potentially deal with.

It's never good to arrive at a conclusion from two different sets of data but I'm going to stand by my take-aways. I believe that a) NSC is focusing on the the low hanging fruit that are direct EB2 cases at the detriment of porters (I can't think of a good reason for that, perhaps the longer gap since they had their last IBIS check done), b) they are close to done with their August load, not having to deal with the RFEs that TSC did, and c) they will be able to get to their September load immediately without the August overhang, so they may well clear their shelves before the end of September.

Self-serving conclusions, absolutely :)

[indiani]

The 8050 demand is as of July 2013. The includes all possible porters that could have ported prior to July 2013.

the people who became current in Aug 2013 and applying EAD first time are anyways not going to get GC before Oct so those do not need to be counted. Hence the demand is 8050, no more and no less.

I initially thought total demand is 8k, until spec pointed out that inter filers aren't included in DD so the actual demand is 12-13K for august , only about 50-60% of it is approved so far

[indiani]

The latest update.

A little summary of where the August approvals are currently (which will immediately out of date). It's, as usual, based on primary applicants who have updated the Trackitt I-485 tracker with the approval.

Total to date - 407

August ----- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22
Number ---- 20 - 25 - 11 -- 0 - 27 - 32 - 42 - 27 - 33 - 11 -- 0 - 36 - 24 - 15 - 30 -- 9 - 11 -- 0 - 37 -- 5 - 12 -- 1


Service Center

Nebraska - 202 -- 49.63%
Texas ---- 204 -- 50.12%
California - 1 --- 0.25%
Vermont ---- 0 --- 0.00%

Total ---- 407 - 100.00%


Priority Date

PD ---- EB2 -- EB3 -- Total
2003 ---- 0 ---- 0 ------ 0
2004 --- 20 ---- 3 ----- 23
2005 --- 40 ---- 5 ----- 45
2006 --- 56 ---- 5 ----- 61
2007 -- 276 ---- 1 ---- 277
2008 ---- 1 ---- 0 ------ 1

Total - 393 --- 14 ---- 407


Pre 2007 PD - 129 -- 31.70%
2007 PD ----- 277 -- 68.06%
2008 PD ------- 1 --- 0.24%

Total ------- 407 - 100.00%


Roughly, I believe that equates to approx 6.0 - 7.2k approvals in August, depending on the conversion ratio used .

Prior to August, there were 129 approvals in FY2013.

Spec,

There are only 69 cases in the forum post on trackitt "still waiting tracker", even though I think all the pending cases would not have made it on that list,

there is a significant portion who are never updating even though when I read the posts after clicking unapproved profile , they clearly posted that they got greened and some have never visited trackitt in more than a year, in the nerve wrecking season , I highly doubt there are significant number of people who are pending and not actively blogging on trackitt.

The take away point I am trying to make is they might have set a target of finishing all the cases assigned to the officers and they might get close to it, i.e. finishing 9-10K ( I remember you calculating number as 9.2k).

[Spectator]

Spec,

There are only 69 cases in the forum post on trackitt "waiting list" , even though I think all the pending cases would not have made it on that list, even if we assume half of them did, that amounts to about 140 cases unapproved that's left of trackitt, overall I think the approvals might be slightly higher than 7.2K ( just hoping ) as there is a significant portion who are never updated even though when I read the posts after clicking unapproved profile , they clearly posted that they got greened and some have never visited trackitt in more than a year, in the nerve wrecking season < I highly doubt there is someone who is pending and not actively blogging on trackitt.

The take away point I am trying to make is they might have set a target of finishing all the cases assigned to the officers and they might get close to it, i.e. finishing 9-10K ( I remember you calculating number as 9.2k).Which "waiting list" are you referring to? Please post the link.

That it represents 50% is a huge assumption.

I cannot work out the time period you are referring to.

More people have their case on Trackitt than ever participate in the discussions.

These posts (http://www.qesehmk.org/forums/showthread.php/688-Statistics-for-EB2-I-Trackitt-New-I-485-Applications-Submitted-in-FY2012) shows how many unapproved cases remain just from those cases added to Trackitt since October 2011. I have every name associated with those numbers.

Even allowing for a large number not updating and recent additions, the number is going to be substantially more than 140, even just for 2007 PDs.

Allowing for already approved cases, 140 to be updated would represent a 50% update rate on 2007 PD cases added since October 2011 and excluding any cases added in August. I can well believe that less than the historic 80% are updating their cases, but that is still a stretch IMHO. If it were true, then c. 6k 2007 PD cases have already been approved in August.

[indiani]

Which "waiting list" are you referring to? Please post the link.

That it represents 50% is a huge assumption.

I cannot work out the time period you are referring to.

More people have their case on Trackitt than ever participate in the discussions.

These posts (http://www.qesehmk.org/forums/showthread.php/688-Statistics-for-EB2-I-Trackitt-New-I-485-Applications-Submitted-in-FY2012) shows how many unapproved cases remain just from those cases added to Trackitt since October 2011. I have every name associated with those numbers.

Even allowing for a large number not updating and recent additions, the number is going to be substantially more than 140, even just for 2007 PDs.

Allowing for already approved cases, 140 to be updated would represent a 50% update rate on 2007 PD cases added since October 2011 and excluding any cases added in August. I can well believe that less than the historic 80% are updating their cases, but that is still a stretch IMHO. If it were true, then c. 6k 2007 PD cases have already been approved in August.

http://www.trackitt.com/usa-discussion-forums/i485-eb/1288060469/still-waiting-tracker/page/7

still waiting tracker ( was the title of the post), its hard to make a conversion rate from this number but

for me to depend on the trackitt approval rate has been frustrating as I followed the last 5 approvals messages and even after several hours not even single one entered their approval on trackitt.

[indiani]

spec,
I have edited my previous post after reading your answer as I am convinced now that the trackitt cases left out are far more than 140 .

The point I was trying to make is that the actual pending cases that are seen on tracker aren't true representation as several cases are not being updated after approval.

[indiani]

Nov/ Dec 2007 PD's EB2I on trackitt
approx. 135 approved
approx.. 143 pending

assuming some haven't updated (approx. 20%)

slightly more than 50% of late PD's are approved so far and only 8 days left ( including Saturdays).

if 50% approved in 19 days , may be another 25% will be approved in the next 8 days and hopefully another 10% approved in September, overall 15% might be left over.

[Spectator]

spec,
I have edited my previous post after reading your answer as I am convinced now that the trackitt cases left out are far more than 140 .

The point I was trying to make is that the actual pending cases that are seen on tracker aren't true representation as several cases are not being updated after approval.indiani,

I totally agree. I don't think anyone would argue that point.

I think the question is, what is the current level that do not update their case?

I have a suspicion it is no longer the historical 80%, but it's difficult to quantify the number until after the event.

About 10% of 2007 PD cases appear to be on Trackitt (which is far higher than any other year). If you are using a 6% conversion ratio then that equates to assuming 40% do not update their case. 7% = 30% etc

I have a good feeling you will see your approval before the end of August.

PS Thanks for the link - the thread must have been way down the list last night - I see it nearer the top and obvious this morning!

[Spectator]

Someone, I think it might have been Pedro, commented on the different strategies at the SC and which PD years were being approved.

I've pulled out those figures for August to date, in case anyone finds them of interest.


PD ------ NSC --- TSC --- CSC --- VSC --- Total ---- %
2004 ----- 17 ----- 9 ----- 0 ----- 0 ------ 26 --- 6.05%
2005 ----- 28 ---- 17 ----- 0 ----- 0 ------ 45 -- 10.47%
2006 ----- 41 ---- 20 ----- 0 ----- 0 ------ 61 -- 14.19%
2007 ---- 118 --- 178 ----- 1 ----- 0 ----- 297 -- 69.07%
2008 ------ 0 ----- 1 ----- 0 ----- 0 ------- 1 --- 0.23%
Total --- 204 --- 225 ----- 1 ----- 0 ----- 430 - 100.00%

[Pedro Gonzales]

So yesterdays' trackitt approvals according to the thread (not tracker) was about 35, but that includes a few dependents and a few 'friends', so i'd drop that figure to a more pure 31. The first 3 profiles that i looked at hadn't updated them yet. I wonder if people are waiting to receive the actual card before updating the tracker.

And today there have already been some brisk approvals. 5 I think so far.

[JosephM]

Is there any progress for those who filed first time I 485 in Aug 2013 ? I see that some of them got FP appointments and some have done early walk-in. Anything beyond that?

[Vkkpnm]

Hello Guys,

I filed my I485 along with EAD & AP first time in Aug'13 and today I got text message, showing I765 for myself and wife are approved. Status shows Card/ Document Production.

But status of AP for all of us still shows 'Initial Review'. I thought now a days they are sending only one card for both EAD/AP...

Any idea?

[gclabor07]

Guru's:

My I-485 was approved on 8/14. On the same day, USCIS issued RFE for my wife. We received it today.

According to the RFE, USCIS is asking for a birth certificate. I had received similar BC RFE in December even though we both provided BC during the initial submission. Anyway, here are my questions.

There is a slight mismatch in the "middle name" displayed on passport vs. BC. Her last didn't change as our families have the same last names. After our marriage, my wife took my first name as her middle name. She applied her passport after our marriage using the new name.

During the initial I-485 application, to be pro-active, I submitted her birth certificate, affidavit from her mom stating name change after marriage, and documents showing before and after marriage name.

For this RFE, I have two choices:

(1) Submit only what is asked, i.e. BC. RFE also says if you cannot produce BC, then submit secondary evidence. But, there is a danger that if they see discrepancy, they may issue another RFE for secondary evidence.

(2) Submit BC + secondary evidence like we have submitted originally.

Wanted to talk this out to folks who might have experience.

NOTE: I read in one of the older archived posts on this forum where Teddy had given an explanation why you would receive RFE to submit BC when you had already submitted it. This could because BC may have been taken out from I-485 application package and must been put together with EAD or AP application package by the officer when they first adjudicated EAD/AP. Sounds logical explanation because I too received BC RFE in December.

[MATT2012]

Hello Guys,

I filed my I485 along with EAD & AP first time in Aug'13 and today I got text message, showing I765 for myself and wife are approved. Status shows Card/ Document Production.

But status of AP for all of us still shows 'Initial Review'. I thought now a days they are sending only one card for both EAD/AP...

Any idea?

The approvals of AP and EAD could be separate also. if it is separate, they will mail you AP as a document.

[Niksammy]

The approvals of AP and EAD could be separate also. if it is separate, they will mail you AP as a document.

I received a combo card for my wife (she filed i-485 for first time on 1st Aug 2013) earlier today even though her EAD application was approved on 20th Aug and her Advance parole was approved on 21st Aug 2013. Even now, the online status for EAD states that card was mailed on 20th Aug 2013 and status for Advance Parole states that card was mailed on 21st Aug 2013.

Based on my experience, I think that Vkkpnm will receive a combo card even though online status shows 2 separate cards were mailed.

[Niksammy]

Gurus,

Do we know for sure if I-765, I-131 cases are adjudicated by the same set of officers who adjudicate I-485 cases? USCIS has already started issuing EADs/Advance Parole to people who became current for first time in Aug 2013. Shouldn't USCIS redirect those resources for approving pending EB2I cases so that most of pre-adjudicated cases are approved before end of FY? Any thoughts.

[MATT2012]

I received a combo card for my wife (she filed i-485 for first time on 1st Aug 2013) earlier today even though her EAD application was approved on 20th Aug and her Advance parole was approved on 21st Aug 2013. Even now, the online status for EAD states that card was mailed on 20th Aug 2013 and status for Advance Parole states that card was mailed on 21st Aug 2013.

Based on my experience, I think that Vkkpnm will receive a combo card even though online status shows 2 separate cards were mailed.

Majority are combo cards, occasionally they come separate. For me the first time EAD and AP was separate and the second time was the combo card.

[indiani]

25 (primary) + 15 (dependent) approvals = 40 trackitt approvals= 400 ( approx.)

so far 7.5K might have been approved.

5.5K pending , 7 ( including Saturdays) left

hopefully another 2K will be cleared.

[Vkkpnm]

Thank you guys. I was wondering is there a chance that I get RFE on AP and it gets delayed. I have to visit India after a month and in a fix should I book ticket or not?

[MATT2012]

Thank you guys. I was wondering is there a chance that I get RFE on AP and it gets delayed. I have to visit India after a month and in a fix should I book ticket or not?

I don't think you will get a RFE on AP. Normally AP approvals are very close to EAD approvals, so should be very soon. Sometimes the online status will not change, and you will see the document in the mail box.

[Spectator]

Gurus,

Do we know for sure if I-765, I-131 cases are adjudicated by the same set of officers who adjudicate I-485 cases? USCIS has already started issuing EADs/Advance Parole to people who became current for first time in Aug 2013. Shouldn't USCIS redirect those resources for approving pending EB2I cases so that most of pre-adjudicated cases are approved before end of FY? Any thoughts.Niksammy,

I'm pretty sure I've heard the EAD and AP applications are not adjudicated at NSC or TSC anymore, or it is an entirely different department.

I'm sure I've read that they are separated from the I-485 after checking for validity at the Lockbox facility has been completed and routed to wherever the adjudication is carried out. In any case, I am positive the same IO does not handle both the I-485 and the I-131/I-765 applications.

[Oranguttan]

Just letting you know that our application too, my husband's (primary applicant) I 485 got approved on 22nd August, however I got an RFE. We are yet to know the details.

TSC/ August 2007/ I485 submitted on Nov 17 2011,/ RFE for both on June 2013 regarding employment verification/ response submitted/ I485 approval card production/ RFE for spouse on August 23


Guru's:

My I-485 was approved on 8/14. On the same day, USCIS issued RFE for my wife. We received it today.

According to the RFE, USCIS is asking for a birth certificate. I had received similar BC RFE in December even though we both provided BC during the initial submission. Anyway, here are my questions.

There is a slight mismatch in the "middle name" displayed on passport vs. BC. Her last didn't change as our families have the same last names. After our marriage, my wife took my first name as her middle name. She applied her passport after our marriage using the new name.

During the initial I-485 application, to be pro-active, I submitted her birth certificate, affidavit from her mom stating name change after marriage, and documents showing before and after marriage name.

For this RFE, I have two choices:

(1) Submit only what is asked, i.e. BC. RFE also says if you cannot produce BC, then submit secondary evidence. But, there is a danger that if they see discrepancy, they may issue another RFE for secondary evidence.

(2) Submit BC + secondary evidence like we have submitted originally.

Wanted to talk this out to folks who might have experience.

NOTE: I read in one of the older archived posts on this forum where Teddy had given an explanation why you would receive RFE to submit BC when you had already submitted it. This could because BC may have been taken out from I-485 application package and must been put together with EAD or AP application package by the officer when they first adjudicated EAD/AP. Sounds logical explanation because I too received BC RFE in December.

[indiani]

spec/ ( anyone interested to chime in),

Beginning September 1st week, do you anticipate to see September current approvals picking up pace after almost all august current ( earlier than 2008 Jan 1st) or somehow the cases which will still be pending from august getting occasional approvals with mostly 2008 approvals.,

even though September 1st week will give an answer to above question, just wanted to see other's opinion.

the reason for the question is how much will the chances of GC decline after the end of this month for pending cases ?

[TeddyKoochu]

spec/ ( anyone interested to chime in),

Beginning September 1st week, do you anticipate to see September current approvals picking up pace after almost all august current ( earlier than 2008 Jan 1st) or somehow the cases which will still be pending from august getting occasional approvals with mostly 2008 approvals.,

even though September 1st week will give an answer to above question, just wanted to see other's opinion.

the reason for the question is how much will the chances of GC decline after the end of this month for pending cases ?

USCIS approval process is not a single thread batch process however a multi thread user intensive process. From what it appears that even though a case maybe in the so called preadjudicated state still the officers give it one final look before approval. Like any other place looks like statistics is if not in totality but partially a measure of productivity so yes low hanging fruits, simpler cases or cases where certain checks are complete normally likely to get completed or say rubber stamped faster. A case which is properly filed with all supporting documentation is also likely to be appeared in one shot. Last year when cases were pretty much being appeared left and right individuals whose dates were as late as Dec 2008 got approved whereas people with earlier dates either received RFE's that could not be responded in time or they had background checks that took longer or porting was not integrated in time.

I have also been following your postings and empathize with you because like you I had to put up with a terrible client at a project for the sake of having stability to be done with GC. Since your case is a porting case even though its EB2 to EB2 it seems that USCIS was not able to automatically link the 2 I140's, did you quote the A# on the fits I140 on the second normally this is how they should link automatically.

Coming to your question unfortunately come Sep you will be competing with more people for approval, in the ideal world if there are enough numbers yes everyone will get it but in reality the odds go slightly against you. I think most porting cases from the past will definitely get approved a lot of them were current even last time in Feb - Mar 2012 but could not get approved so even in the worst case if you do not get approved in September then it is fairly likely that the dates would not retrogress before your date in Oct. Sep will be a fairly interesting month of random approvals most likely as the date movement seems to be targeted towards finishing off the cap and every year the cap gets finished in early September.

All the best I wish you get approved in August itself.

[indiani]

USCIS approval process is not a single thread batch process however a multi thread user intensive process. From what it appears that even though a case maybe in the so called preadjudicated state still the officers give it one final look before approval. Like any other place looks like statistics is if not in totality but partially a measure of productivity so yes low hanging fruits, simpler cases or cases where certain checks are complete normally likely to get completed or say rubber stamped faster. A case which is properly filed with all supporting documentation is also likely to be appeared in one shot. Last year when cases were pretty much being appeared left and right individuals whose dates were as late as Dec 2008 got approved whereas people with earlier dates either received RFE's that could not be responded in time or they had background checks that took longer or porting was not integrated in time.

I have also been following your postings and empathize with you because like you I had to put up with a terrible client at a project for the sake of having stability to be done with GC. Since your case is a porting case even though its EB2 to EB2 it seems that USCIS was not able to automatically link the 2 I140's, did you quote the A# on the fits I140 on the second normally this is how they should link automatically.

Coming to your question unfortunately come Sep you will be competing with more people for approval, in the ideal world if there are enough numbers yes everyone will get it but in reality the odds go slightly against you. I think most porting cases from the past will definitely get approved a lot of them were current even last time in Feb - Mar 2012 but could not get approved so even in the worst case if you do not get approved in September then it is fairly likely that the dates would not retrogress before your date in Oct. Sep will be a fairly interesting month of random approvals most likely as the date movement seems to be targeted towards finishing off the cap and every year the cap gets finished in early September.

All the best I wish you get approved in August itself.

Thanks for detailed reply Teddy,
this is the reply from uscis to attorney few days ago

"Service records indicate that your recently approved I-140 petition has been connected with your I-485 application. Further, your I-485 application is currently assigned to an officer. Although assigned, we cannot predict the date the case may actually receive review.
If you have not received a decision or other notice of action on this case within 90 days, please contact us for updates."

Like many on trackitt have mentioned at TSC the "porting cases" are bit delayed in general, even though some use the word porting for Eb3-EB2 only ( but the concept is the same)

since the case is assigned , I was hoping that the officer at least would get to the case before picking up cases assigned on September 3rd. ( considering the same officer who has my case will be given additional work load before finishing the ones the officer already has)

But as there are many officers and more than one processing center and most of the actual process is not as transparent as we want them to be, I do understand that we should see all kinds of approvals but my last glimmer of hope was that the cases which are assigned hopefully might receive approval/ review in September.

Planning of AC21 is kind of long drawn process for me as it takes a while to switch jobs in the field I am in ( not necessarily finding one), I will wait till end of September or until visas run out before making that decision.

[indiani]

"it is fairly likely that the dates would not retrogress before your date in Oct." ( PD Nov 2007)

while Q , you and others anticipate dates not to retrogress in oct.,

I think they most likely have to retrogress ( as the demand far exceeds allowable monthly quota). Obviously I hope that you are right and the dates stay the same at least for October.

[Vkkpnm]

Thanks Matt.

[RogerFederer]

"it is fairly likely that the dates would not retrogress before your date in Oct." ( PD Nov 2007)

while Q , you and others anticipate dates not to retrogress in oct.,

I think they most likely have to retrogress ( as the demand far exceeds allowable monthly quota). Obviously I hope that you are right and the dates stay the same at least for October.

October bulletin will release in Sept 2nd week. I dont think they will have all the numbers yet, so it has to wait atleast until Nov bulletin for retrogression. I can bet on dates not going back in October bulletin. cant bet on Nov though.

[vizcard]

October bulletin will release in Sept 2nd week. I dont think they will have all the numbers yet, so it has to wait atleast until Nov bulletin for retrogression. I can bet on dates not going back in October bulletin. cant bet on Nov though.

look at historic VBs.. you will see that dates retrogress in Oct itself. You are forgetting (I think) that the clock gets reset in Oct i.e. visas available are back to around 220 per month and there are legislative requirements that prevent CO from allocating more than that per month (until quarter end). As you know, there are way more than 220 applications per month.

[Spectator]

look at historic VBs.. you will see that dates retrogress in Oct itself. You are forgetting (I think) that the clock gets reset in Oct i.e. visas available are back to around 220 per month and there are legislative requirements that prevent CO from allocating more than that per month (until quarter end). As you know, there are way more than 220 applications per month.I would be a little looser than that.

CO has 9% of the EB total for the year available in October for all Categories. He does not have to prorate that to Categories/Countries.

The problem I see, is that if the EB2-I COD is left at 15JUN2008 in October, the level of Demand from EB2-I will be far in excess of any number that could be available.

That would demand retrogression of some sort (no pun intended).

One strategy might be to pull the COD back to ensure no further 2008 PD are approved and mop up the earlier cases left approvable in October.

Since even that might use up the full quarter allocation for EB2-I, that might also necessitate quite extreme retrogression for a period following that.

Such a strategy is not without risks, depending on exactly how many pre 2008 PD cases remain at the end of September. That is something he will have to guess at when he sets the October COD.

He also has the option of retrogressing in one go in October to a date that will consume the monthly allocation. That would allow Co to assess the demand carried forward in to FY2014.

If he leaves the COD at 15JUN08 in October, I'm 99.9% sure actual Demand through the month will far exceed the visas that could be made available to EB2-I. He'd then either have to internally retrogress the date at some point in October, or face a mini repeat of FY2011, which could include EB2-I being made Unavailable for several months afterwards, depending on the level of over consumption.

The only way that could be avoided is if virtually all cases made Current in August/September VBs were approved by the end of September. History tells us that is extremely unlikely to happen.

[Vkkpnm]

Hey guys, has anyone travelled to India via London recently. My H1b & Visa is expired but H1B extension applied. I also got EAD and will be travelling on AP. Wondering is EAD/AP sufficient to travel via London? Do I need to get transit visa?

[Spectator]

Hey guys, has anyone travelled to India via London recently. My H1b & Visa is expired but H1B extension applied. I also got EAD and will be travelling on AP. Wondering is EAD/AP sufficient to travel via London? I heard they get some weird requirements sometimes.You need an UK Airside Transit Visa. The UK does not recognize AP as an acceptable document.

There was a discussion about this a few days ago - Here

PS I am deleting your duplicate post.

[Vkkpnm]

Thanks Spec for quick reply. Appreciated a lot. Quick question: Do we need transit visa for both side travel i.e. USA-London-India & India-London-USA.

[vizcard]

Thanks Spec for quick reply. Appreciated a lot. Quick question: Do we need transit visa for both side travel i.e. USA-London-India & India-London-USA.

Yes. Any transit via the UK needs a transit visa. That's why I avoid flying Virgin or American/British Airways.

[GhostWriter]

Vkkpnm, yes you will need a transit visa for both the sides of travel. You will have to get it before leaving US. The requirements stay the same irrespective of the direction of the journey (which does not make a lot of sense but that is the way it is). Even with Indian passport and going from US to India via UK, you need a UK transit visa (or a valid stamped US visa). The airline will not let you board from US if you don't have one of these two.


Do we need transit visa for both side travel USA-London-India and India-London-USA? I have expired VISA with EAD/AP.

[qesehmk]

A valid US visa is required only for return journey. Generally speaking to travel through London - you need visa for your destination - whatever that destination is.
Yes. Any transit via the UK needs a transit visa. That's why I avoid flying Virgin or American/British Airways.

[indiani]

Is 13k actual demand in august or slightly low ? ( I just know the interfilers are few thousands 4 or 5K, I am not sure.)
Is the current usage approximately 7.5K? ( I understand b'cos lot of people aren't updating on time , its difficult to accurately assess)

[Spectator]

Vkkpnm, yes you will need a transit visa for both the sides of travel. You will have to get it before leaving US. The requirements stay the same irrespective of the direction of the journey (which does not make a lot of sense but that is the way it is). Even with Indian passport and going from US to India via UK, you need a UK transit visa (or a valid stamped US visa). The airline will not let you board from US if you don't have one of these two.

Ghostwriter,

That's my understanding as well, even though the person would clearly be able to enter India due holding an Indian passport.

Despite that, the DATV is needed for both outgoing and return legs from other posts I have seen.

I don't pretend to understand why.

PS Somehow your post replying to Q in this thread got deleted. I think I might have done that unintentionally, for which I apologize. Perhaps you could repost. I have copied your other reply, but it loses some context.

[GhostWriter]

Q, that is not the case. The direction of travel does not matter, the requirements are the same. By your logic a person with Indian passport traveling from US to India via UK should not need anything (since he does not need a visa to India). But as per UK rules he should either have a UK transit visa or a visa to US/Australia etc. He won't be allowed to board the flight from US if he does not have one of these.


Spec: I have reposted. The only logic I was able to think of (which makes me very angry) is that UK treats an Indian passport holder as a culprit until proven otherwise. So they either want UK to have done the due diligence or another developed country like US or Australia to have done the same. The origin and destination of travel are immaterial, they just want either them or one of the other developed nations to have done all the background checks on the person traveling through their airport. I have been at the receiving end of this policy in an emergency travel situation.



A valid US visa is required only for return journey. Generally speaking to travel through London - you need visa for your destination - whatever that destination is.

[qesehmk]

Ghost - I am surprised. I just checked and you are - almost right - there is one exception for Indians though.

If you are travelling from US UK Aus and NZ back to India - you dont need transit visa IF you were on a return trip from those countries with duration of less than 6 months.

So bottomline is - in some cases it could be possible. But I would skip Heathrow. There are n number of options elsewhere.


Q, that is not the case. The direction of travel does not matter, the requirements are the same. By your logic a person with Indian passport traveling from US to India via UK should not need anything (since he does not need a visa to India). But as per UK rules he should either have a UK transit visa or a visa to US/Australia etc. He won't be allowed to board the flight from US if he does not have one of these.


Spec: I have reposted. The only logic I was able to think of (which makes me very angry) is that UK treats an Indian passport holder as a culprit until proven otherwise. So they either want UK to have done the due diligence or another developed country like US or Australia to have done the same. The origin and destination of travel are immaterial, they just want either them or one of the other developed nations to have done all the background checks on the person traveling through their airport. I have been at the receiving end of this policy in an emergency travel situation.

[Spectator]

A Sunday morning update. So far, there have been no approvals from yesterday updated in the Tracker, which is unusual.

A little summary of where the August approvals are currently (which will immediately out of date). It's, as usual, based on primary applicants who have updated the Trackitt I-485 tracker with the approval.

Total to date - 453

August ----- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22 - 23 - 24 - 25
Number ---- 21 - 25 - 11 -- 0 - 27 - 32 - 42 - 27 - 33 - 11 -- 0 - 36 - 24 - 15 - 30 - 10 - 13 -- 0 - 38 -- 8 - 15 - 23 - 11 -- 0 -- 0


Service Center

Nebraska - 210 -- 46.36%
Texas ---- 241 -- 53.20%
California - 2 --- 0.44%
Vermont ---- 0 --- 0.00%

Total ---- 453 - 100.00%


Priority Date

PD ------ NSC --- TSC --- CSC --- VSC --- Total ---- %
2003 ------ 1 ----- 0 ----- 0 ----- 0 ------- 1 --- 0.22%
2004 ----- 17 ---- 11 ----- 0 ----- 0 ------ 28 --- 6.18%
2005 ----- 28 ---- 18 ----- 0 ----- 0 ------ 46 -- 10.15%
2006 ----- 43 ---- 21 ----- 1 ----- 0 ------ 65 -- 14.35%
2007 ---- 121 --- 190 ----- 1 ----- 0 ----- 312 -- 68.87%
2008 ------ 0 ----- 1 ----- 0 ----- 0 ------- 1 --- 0.22%
Total --- 210 --- 241 ----- 2 ----- 0 ----- 453 - 100.00%


Pre 2007 PD - 140 -- 30.91%
2007 PD ----- 312 -- 68.87%
2008 PD ------- 1 --- 0.22%

Total ------- 453 - 100.00%


Prior to August, there were 128 approvals in FY2013.

[indiani]

A Sunday morning update. So far, there have been no approvals from yesterday updated in the Tracker, which is unusual.

A little summary of where the August approvals are currently (which will immediately out of date). It's, as usual, based on primary applicants who have updated the Trackitt I-485 tracker with the approval.

Total to date - 453

August ----- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22 - 23 - 24 - 25
Number ---- 21 - 25 - 11 -- 0 - 27 - 32 - 42 - 27 - 33 - 11 -- 0 - 36 - 24 - 15 - 30 - 10 - 13 -- 0 - 38 -- 8 - 15 - 23 - 11 -- 0 -- 0


Service Center

Nebraska - 210 -- 46.36%
Texas ---- 241 -- 53.20%
California - 2 --- 0.44%
Vermont ---- 0 --- 0.00%

Total ---- 453 - 100.00%


Priority Date

PD ------ NSC --- TSC --- CSC --- VSC --- Total ---- %
2003 ------ 1 ----- 0 ----- 0 ----- 0 ------- 1 --- 0.22%
2004 ----- 17 ---- 11 ----- 0 ----- 0 ------ 28 --- 6.18%
2005 ----- 28 ---- 18 ----- 0 ----- 0 ------ 46 -- 10.15%
2006 ----- 43 ---- 21 ----- 1 ----- 0 ------ 65 -- 14.35%
2007 ---- 121 --- 190 ----- 1 ----- 0 ----- 312 -- 68.87%
2008 ------ 0 ----- 1 ----- 0 ----- 0 ------- 1 --- 0.22%
Total --- 210 --- 241 ----- 2 ----- 0 ----- 453 - 100.00%


Pre 2007 PD - 140 -- 30.91%
2007 PD ----- 312 -- 68.87%
2008 PD ------- 1 --- 0.22%

Total ------- 453 - 100.00%


Prior to August, there were 128 approvals in FY2013.

spec,

what is your estimate of how many cases that are pending in august still?

[Pedro Gonzales]

The thread on trackitt shows 21 approvals so far today, although most of these were processed on Saturday that emails/SMSs were sent for early this morning.

[Pedro Gonzales]

What the hell? That same thread shows a Feb 2008 PD EB2I approval (user: tanjore) . Looking at his profile, the timing of his I485 application seems right. Also, he appears to have a Nov 2012 PERM application. I can't understand why he would need that if he already had an EAD at that time associated with an EB2I 485.

I'm leaning towards user error right now, althought it's certainly possible the USCIS jumped the gun.

[Spectator]

What the hell? That same thread shows a Feb 2008 PD EB2I approval (user: tanjore) . Looking at his profile, the timing of his I485 application seems right. Also, he appears to have a Nov 2012 PERM application. I can't understand why he would need that if he already had an EAD at that time associated with an EB2I 485.

I'm leaning towards user error right now, althought it's certainly possible the USCIS jumped the gun.Pedro,

Distinguishing user error from reality is so difficult.

The other case showing as a 2008 PD (sunnybms) actually has a December 2007 PD.

[Spectator]

Gurus,

I am filing my I-485+I-131+I-765 first time in Sep'13. As per the instructions on these forms, each form requires 2 photographs i.e. 6 photographs in total. But my lawyer is asking for just 2 photographs. He is saying that earlier they used to ask for 6 photographs but not anymore, and now just two photographs are sufficient. Photos for combo-card for EAD/AP will be taken at the time of FP.

I have to travel to India in late Nov and don't want to take any chance regarding EAD/AP. But even if I send 6 photos, lawyer is going to use only 2. So not sure what to do. Can you please weigh in?Can anyone answer this question in the September VB thread?

I've highlighted it here because by the time it was moderated, it got lost in the other posts.

Thanks all.

[dec2010]

i believe, that requirement has to do with, if the person does not clear immigration of the country he/she can be sent back to the country of travel origin. ( i have read somewhere that ) international flights can not start outbound journey until all inbound passengers have cleared immigration.

[Jagan01]

spec,

what is your estimate of how many cases that are pending in august still?

Indiani,
I have a feeling that today you should hear something from USCIS regarding ur case. Lets see...

[indiani]

Indiani,
I have a feeling that today you should hear something from USCIS regarding ur case. Lets see...

You had the right feeling jagan at 4:00pm I received the " case update" TXT / CPO email.

I am thrilled to see so many people rooting for me and want to thank everyone for the support ( which I needed badly) , Mondays have been usually good approval days as they are sending emails from 7:45 am onwards ( in fact most of them got the approval emails at this time) from the case adjudications from the last week's Friday/ Saturday.

My guess is by the end of the month they might be able to approve between 9-10 K leaving about 3K to be added to September, which should be a manageable goal to approve overall 18K , leaving only cases which needs security clearance or someone who are unable to reply to RFE on time. I know its a wishful thinking but it appears to be an achievable reality.

[IJune05]

Jagan01,
I did not mean to sound "gullible" but hey you seem to have good predictable opinion.
Mine in June 2005 and slowly the feeling of missing the boat ride to the other side is dawning on me
Take care!

[IJune05]

Congrats Indiani.. you deserved this

[kam_wmu]

Congrats Indiani!! Nice one Jagan!

[Jagan01]

You had the right feeling jagan at 4:00pm I received the " case update" TXT / CPO email.

I am thrilled to see so many people rooting for me and want to thank everyone for the support ( which I needed badly) , Mondays have been usually good approval days as they are sending emails from 7:45 am onwards ( in fact most of them got the approval emails at this time) from the case adjudications from the last week's Friday/ Saturday.

My guess is by the end of the month they might be able to approve between 9-10 K leaving about 3K to be added to September, which should be a manageable goal to approve overall 18K , leaving only cases which needs security clearance or someone who are unable to reply to RFE on time. I know its a wishful thinking but it appears to be an achievable reality.

Wow congrattts buddy.... Now you can relax and enjoy the labor day weekend... Its good to see everyone being greened...
I am still waiting to apply EAD... Hopefully you guys are around when I get to file EAD... Keep visiting the forum once in a while...

[indiani]

Wow congrattts buddy.... Now you can relax and enjoy the labor day weekend... Its good to see everyone being greened...
I am still waiting to apply EAD... Hopefully you guys are around when I get to file EAD... Keep visiting the forum once in a while...

now that I got the title " Guru" below my ID, I have no choice but to answer at least a few questions everyday..lol

[Jagan01]

Jagan01,
I did not mean to sound "gullible" but hey you seem to have good predictable opinion.
Mine in June 2005 and slowly the feeling of missing the boat ride to the other side is dawning on me
Take care!

Hey June05,

There was no prediction... as mentioned it was just something that I felt...
You do not need to worry much as most people believe retrogression is not coming until Nov and ur date is 2005 so even after retrogression you would still be current...

[indiani]

Jagan01,
I did not mean to sound "gullible" but hey you seem to have good predictable opinion.
Mine in June 2005 and slowly the feeling of missing the boat ride to the other side is dawning on me
Take care!

June05,

I think porters ( including me , even though mine is EB2 to EB2) are being considered last as they might find our cases to be a bit time consuming or some other reason, at least at TSC the porters are considered later than straight EB2.

I think they might achieve a target of close to 10K this month and even the 2-3K that are left are already assigned to officers so unless there is security clearance issue or last minute RFE you have very high chance of approval mostly in coming 4 days, if not in September 1st week/ 2nd week.

[indiani]

Hey June05,

There was no prediction... as mentioned it was just something that I felt...
You do not need to worry much as most people believe retrogression is not coming until Nov and ur date is 2005 so even after retrogression you would still be current...

That's a good point you made which I didn't realize at the most they will retrogress to late 2005, so 99% chances June05 will remain current continuously

[Spectator]

You had the right feeling jagan at 4:00pm I received the " case update" TXT / CPO email.

I am thrilled to see so many people rooting for me and want to thank everyone for the support ( which I needed badly) , Mondays have been usually good approval days as they are sending emails from 7:45 am onwards ( in fact most of them got the approval emails at this time) from the case adjudications from the last week's Friday/ Saturday.

My guess is by the end of the month they might be able to approve between 9-10 K leaving about 3K to be added to September, which should be a manageable goal to approve overall 18K , leaving only cases which needs security clearance or someone who are unable to reply to RFE on time. I know its a wishful thinking but it appears to be an achievable reality.indiani,

Congratulations!!

I told you it would be this week. At least I got one prediction correct!

[JosephM]

Excellent !! Great news indeed.. Congratulations Indiani

[indiani]

indiani,

Congratulations!!

I told you it would be this week. At least I got one prediction correct!

Thanks and Yes, I remember. That's why I have been working with all my plans as if I would get the approval email by this Friday.

[indiani]

I think receiving so many congressional inquiries might have made USCIS more vigilant in what they are doing as they probably didn't want many unhappy constituents complaining about USCIS.
But I don't think they have helped any individual case as it is a sheer co-incidence that some have got approval after congressional inquiry.
If I were to give an advice I will ask anyone who have waited even a week after its current should contact their congressman ( I prefer over senator as their offices have to deal with less population)

[SenorMeow]

Congratulations indiani! Happy for your approval. This week should be pretty busy at USCIS as they try to knock out as many as possible before labor day weekend, so for those still waiting it's time to sit tight and have an ear out for those text alerts. The finish line appears to be in sight, so keep the faith! :)

[indiani]

Excellent !! Great news indeed.. Congratulations Indiani

"I sincerely pray that "Indiani" gets his Green card soon. This forum will be delighted to see that soon."

Thanks, I still remember your post. If dates remain current in October you should get hopefully by October ending.

[MATT2012]

You had the right feeling jagan at 4:00pm I received the " case update" TXT / CPO email.

I am thrilled to see so many people rooting for me and want to thank everyone for the support ( which I needed badly) , Mondays have been usually good approval days as they are sending emails from 7:45 am onwards ( in fact most of them got the approval emails at this time) from the case adjudications from the last week's Friday/ Saturday.

My guess is by the end of the month they might be able to approve between 9-10 K leaving about 3K to be added to September, which should be a manageable goal to approve overall 18K , leaving only cases which needs security clearance or someone who are unable to reply to RFE on time. I know its a wishful thinking but it appears to be an achievable reality.

Indiani,

Congratulations, Indeed happy for you. For the last couple of weeks, I was waiting to see your approval post.

Cheers!!

Matt

[indiani]

Congratulations indiani! Happy for your approval. This week should be pretty busy at USCIS as they try to knock out as many as possible before labor day weekend, so for those still waiting it's time to sit tight and have an ear out for those text alerts. The finish line appears to be in sight, so keep the faith! :)

Thanks and I agree with you , USCIS hopefully will "clean up" at least 10K cases before Friday, I think the approval rate will peak over next few days and this might be the highest approval week ever.

[indiani]

Indiani,

Congratulations, Indeed happy for you. For the last couple of weeks, I was waiting to see your approval post.

Cheers!!

Matt

Thanks Matt,

as mine was EB2 to EB2 retention of priority date ( one attorney told me that word porting is reserved for Eb3 to Eb2) , it took longer and moreover my RD was April 2012, I suddenly found myself in a rather unpleasant work environment so my eagerness to get approved sky-rocketed but for everyone getting approved probably will be a day to remember forever.

It was 2001 when I got my F-1 visa approved and I still remember that day ( I was very young in those days...12 years ago)

[seattlet]

Thanks Matt,

as mine was EB2 to EB2 retention of priority date ( one attorney told me that word porting is reserved for Eb3 to Eb2) , it took longer and moreover my RD was April 2012, I suddenly found myself in a rather unpleasant work environment so my eagerness to get approved sky-rocketed but for everyone getting approved probably will be a day to remember forever.

It was 2001 when I got my F-1 visa approved and I still remember that day ( I was very young in those days...12 years ago)


Congrats Dude. Have you left your old employer yet ? We would love to know of any rajnikanth style actions and words spoken by you over next few days with ur employer.

[indiani]

Congrats Dude. Have you left your old employer yet ? We would love to know of any rajnikanth style actions and words spoken by you over next few days with ur employer.

Thanks..LOL...Tomorrow, the office staff will see "Rajnikanth" and soon the employer will get a sense of reality and learn to be respectful of others ( even though as H-1 employee we are "supposed to have equal rights" but that's rarely the case)

Even though AC 21 porting to self-employment is an option under EAD I know of only one friend who did it but in general I don't like the idea of ever being "employed" so I will slip into the self-employed position be a "good employer" soon..

[ontheedge]

You had the right feeling jagan at 4:00pm I received the " case update" TXT / CPO email.

Indiani, many many congratulations! I have been following your posts and saying a silent prayer for you, as I completely understand how utterly frustrating it is to be in the position you were in. Now you're free to forge your own destiny. Cheers!

[TeddyKoochu]

You had the right feeling jagan at 4:00pm I received the " case update" TXT / CPO email.

I am thrilled to see so many people rooting for me and want to thank everyone for the support ( which I needed badly) , Mondays have been usually good approval days as they are sending emails from 7:45 am onwards ( in fact most of them got the approval emails at this time) from the case adjudications from the last week's Friday/ Saturday.

My guess is by the end of the month they might be able to approve between 9-10 K leaving about 3K to be added to September, which should be a manageable goal to approve overall 18K , leaving only cases which needs security clearance or someone who are unable to reply to RFE on time. I know its a wishful thinking but it appears to be an achievable reality.

Congratulations to you and your family. Must be feeling very relieved now. Enjoy the moment you have been waiting for. Iam sure your employer's tone is going to change on hearing the news. First and foremost ask them to file an I9 with GC this way you can record that you worked with them post GC and then its really up to you how best you can demonstrate the goodwill intention to stay with him and make a graceful exit. Believe me a lot of people have gone through this agony of waiting for GC in a terrible work environment, now that its done Iam sure you will be over it and gain strength out of it and move on to the next chapter of life towards a rewarding career and a job that you like.

[pseudonym]

You had the right feeling jagan at 4:00pm I received the " case update" TXT / CPO email.

I am thrilled to see so many people rooting for me and want to thank everyone for the support ( which I needed badly) , Mondays have been usually good approval days as they are sending emails from 7:45 am onwards ( in fact most of them got the approval emails at this time) from the case adjudications from the last week's Friday/ Saturday.

My guess is by the end of the month they might be able to approve between 9-10 K leaving about 3K to be added to September, which should be a manageable goal to approve overall 18K , leaving only cases which needs security clearance or someone who are unable to reply to RFE on time. I know its a wishful thinking but it appears to be an achievable reality.

Congratulations indiani!! Very happy to see your approval. You should indeed look forward to one of the best long weekends of your life! :-)

[Niksammy]

Congrats Indiani! Glad that the wait is finally over for you :o.

[venki080]

Congrats indiani please continue being
A part if this great forum and guide folks like you always do.

QUOTE=pseudonym;39594]Congratulations indiani!! Very happy to see your approval. You should indeed look forward to one of the best long weekends of your life! :-)[/QUOTE]

[Jun1308]

You had the right feeling jagan at 4:00pm I received the " case update" TXT / CPO email.

I am thrilled to see so many people rooting for me and want to thank everyone for the support ( which I needed badly) , Mondays have been usually good approval days as they are sending emails from 7:45 am onwards ( in fact most of them got the approval emails at this time) from the case adjudications from the last week's Friday/ Saturday.

My guess is by the end of the month they might be able to approve between 9-10 K leaving about 3K to be added to September, which should be a manageable goal to approve overall 18K , leaving only cases which needs security clearance or someone who are unable to reply to RFE on time. I know its a wishful thinking but it appears to be an achievable reality.

Many Congratulations Indiani.

[qesehmk]

Indiani - many congratulations!! Well deserved GC especially because you have been helpful to so many others.

On another note - we need to instantly make Jagan a Guru!!! OMG how could he say what he said and came true so fast!!


You had the right feeling jagan at 4:00pm I received the " case update" TXT / CPO email.

I am thrilled to see so many people rooting for me and want to thank everyone for the support ( which I needed badly) , Mondays have been usually good approval days as they are sending emails from 7:45 am onwards ( in fact most of them got the approval emails at this time) from the case adjudications from the last week's Friday/ Saturday.

My guess is by the end of the month they might be able to approve between 9-10 K leaving about 3K to be added to September, which should be a manageable goal to approve overall 18K , leaving only cases which needs security clearance or someone who are unable to reply to RFE on time. I know its a wishful thinking but it appears to be an achievable reality.

[RogerFederer]

Congatulations Indiani. That's very great news.

Btw Jagan, can u pls feel and tell me when will be my turn? Kidding...how in the world u know Indiani wil be a free soul today? That's....%*%-+ awesome.

[indiani]

Once again I want to thank everyone for their kindness. I will be on this forum indefinitely as long as Q is willing to maintain it :)

[gc_soon]

Congrats Indiani. I can understood how good feeling it must me. Good luck man.

[pakkineni]

Once again I want to thank everyone for their kindness. I will be on this forum indefinitely as long as Q is willing to maintain it :)

indiani, Congratulations to you and your family .

hope tackle will get his CPO email soon

[longwait100]

Congratulations Indiani!.....very happy to see your approval..I can understand how relieved you must feeling now!

Enjoy the moment and the green life ahead....its a new beginning and life is still young!

[tackle]

You had the right feeling jagan at 4:00pm I received the " case update" TXT / CPO email.

I am thrilled to see so many people rooting for me and want to thank everyone for the support ( which I needed badly) , Mondays have been usually good approval days as they are sending emails from 7:45 am onwards ( in fact most of them got the approval emails at this time) from the case adjudications from the last week's Friday/ Saturday.

My guess is by the end of the month they might be able to approve between 9-10 K leaving about 3K to be added to September, which should be a manageable goal to approve overall 18K , leaving only cases which needs security clearance or someone who are unable to reply to RFE on time. I know its a wishful thinking but it appears to be an achievable reality.

Congratulations! I'm happy for you. Enjoy your freedom!

[tackle]

indiani, Congratulations to you and your family .

hope tackle will get his CPO email soon

Thanks for your wishes bud :).

[ontheedge]

Thanks for your wishes bud :).

Dude....I'm gonna pull a 'Jagan' and say you're next :) We're all rooting for you.

[GCKnowHow]

Thanks..LOL...Tomorrow, the office staff will see "Rajnikanth" and soon the employer will get a sense of reality and learn to be respectful of others ( even though as H-1 employee we are "supposed to have equal rights" but that's rarely the case)

Even though AC 21 porting to self-employment is an option under EAD I know of only one friend who did it but in general I don't like the idea of ever being "employed" so I will slip into the self-employed position be a "good employer" soon..

Hi Rajinikanth(The Bosss) congrats!!!!. I like the last line, hope and wish you do not change as others did.

[tackle]

Dude....I'm gonna pull a 'Jagan' and say you're next :) We're all rooting for you.

Thanks, ontheedge! :).

I'm hoping I don't miss the boat again this year. I called USCIS last thursday and opened SR as it has been 60 days since the status changed to RFE response review. I was told that the SR will be assigned to an officer within 15 days and I should get response within 30 days.

I have also sent requests to my local Congressman and my Senator. I haven't heard back from my congressman's office yet. However, I did receive a reply from Senator's office (postal mail) saying that they'll be working on my case and that by law, federal agencies have 30 days minimum (:confused:) to respond to inquiries from Senator's office.

I just hope one of my initiatives would at least get someone at USCIS to dust-up my application and take a look at it. I just want to know what is holding up my application. Should have been a straight forward case. I've been in the same city since 2002. Straight EB2. Working at the same company (formerly Fortune 500, now Fortune 1000) since 2005. Have had no trouble with the law. So, I'm just not sure what is holding my application up.

[bieber]

Indiani

Many congratulations. You had little longer wait this month but you can party hard now :)

[gclabor07]

Congrats Indiani. Enjoy the freedom.


Indiani

Many congratulations. You had little longer wait this month but you can party hard now :)

[TeddyKoochu]

Tackle all the best to you, hope to hear on your approval soon. Good Luck, you are one of the old timers still waiting.

[tackle]

Tackle all the best to you, hope to hear on your approval soon. Good Luck, you are one of the old timers still waiting.

Thanks, Teddy. Good to see you around :).

[yank]

Congratulations Indiani!

[pdmay2008]

Congratulations Indiani!! Good to see Gurus getting greened. Thanks for all your contributions to this forum. I learnt a lot from your posts.

[Maksimus]

Congrats Indiani! Happy for you! Enjoy the freedom with your family this labor day.

[Niksammy]

Gurus,

Do we have any numbers regarding break up of TSC approvals in terms of original EB2 filers and EB3-EB2 upgrades?

I am trying to figure out if USCIS is done processing most of direct EB2 folks from 2007 and if most of the people who are still waiting to be greened(after becoming current on 1st Aug 2013) are EB3-EB2 upgrades like me. Also, do you think USCIS will be trying to finish pending applications with priority dates earlier than 1 Jan 2008 before approving new applications which will become current in Sept 2013?

I understand the logic for USCIS officers going for low hanging fruits (i.e direct EB2 folks) to increase their productivity/bonus/other incentives.

But, since EB2I dates are expected to retrogress some time soon and then not move for another 9 months , won't the EB3-EB2 upgrades that are left out this year face the same problem next year of not being low hanging fruit and missing out again to direct EB2 folks.

May be I have become a bit skeptical after not seeing any updates on my case (Dec 2006) till now and thinking too much. Any thoughts:mad:

[venkat]

Congratulations Indiani!!!

You deserved this and finally you can be happy that the wait is over...It must be a tremendous feeling...I've heard at first it can take little time to sink in...

I think my turn will be next year...

[tackle]

Gurus,

Do we have any numbers regarding break up of TSC approvals in terms of original EB2 filers and EB3-EB2 upgrades?

I am trying to figure out if USCIS is done processing most of direct EB2 folks from 2007 and if most of the people who are still waiting to be greened(after becoming current on 1st Aug 2013) are EB3-EB2 upgrades like me. Also, do you think USCIS will be trying to finish pending applications with priority dates earlier than 1 Jan 2008 before approving new applications which will become current in Sept 2013?

I understand the logic for USCIS officers going for low hanging fruits (i.e direct EB2 folks) to increase their productivity/bonus/other incentives.

But, since EB2I dates are expected to retrogress some time soon and then not move for another 9 months , won't the EB3-EB2 upgrades that are left out this year face the same problem next year of not being low hanging fruit and missing out again to direct EB2 folks.

May be I have become a bit skeptical after not seeing any updates on my case (Dec 2006) till now and thinking too much. Any thoughts:mad:

As you might have already seen, approvals are pretty random. There is no order to it. The reason it seems like straight EB2 cases are being picked before EB3-EB2 porting cases (with an earlier PD) is that there is just too many direct applicants when compared to porters. So, the probability a porting case gets picked is much less than the probability of a direct case gets picked. I don't think "low-hanging fruit" theory is the reason for this. As far as I can tell, USCIS handles the cases that are current with the same priority regardless of PD or RD. I'm not saying this is fair; but this is the reality. So, once you are current, all you can do is pray that your application gets picked. If you expect USCIS to process the applications in an orderly fashion, you'll be sorely disappointed.

[Spectator]

As you might have already seen, approvals are pretty random. There is no order to it. The reason it seems like straight EB2 cases are being picked before EB3-EB2 porting cases (with an earlier PD) is that there is just too many direct applicants when compared to porters. So, the probability a porting case gets picked is much less than the probability of a direct case gets picked. I don't think "low-hanging fruit" theory is the reason for this. As far as I can tell, USCIS handles the cases that are current with the same priority regardless of PD or RD. I'm not saying this is fair; but this is the reality. So, once you are current, all you can do is pray that your application gets picked. If you expect USCIS to process the applications in an orderly fashion, you'll be sorely disappointed.I would generally agree.

There is some anecdotal evidence from the Trackitt approvals that, to date, it has been slightly better to be at NSC if you have an earlier PD, but I wouldn't rely on the figures as terribly authoritative.

[sakha13]

You had the right feeling jagan at 4:00pm I received the " case update" TXT / CPO email.

I am thrilled to see so many people rooting for me and want to thank everyone for the support ( which I needed badly) , Mondays have been usually good approval days as they are sending emails from 7:45 am onwards ( in fact most of them got the approval emails at this time) from the case adjudications from the last week's Friday/ Saturday.

My guess is by the end of the month they might be able to approve between 9-10 K leaving about 3K to be added to September, which should be a manageable goal to approve overall 18K , leaving only cases which needs security clearance or someone who are unable to reply to RFE on time. I know its a wishful thinking but it appears to be an achievable reality.


Awesome, I am so happy for you Indiani. Congratulations!!!

[Niksammy]

Tackle/Spec,

Thanks a lot for the explanation. I guess that I just need to wait keeping my fingers crossed.

[Pedro Gonzales]

Congratulations indiani.

From this thread the following forum members are still waiting for the email/SMS: tackle, Goforgreen, Sandyn16, 1June05, Niksammy, San312 and mvkrishna. All the best guys. Hope you all get your GCs this week, before we 08ers become current next week.

[IJune05]

To lighten up folks in this list -> where is Jagan01 when we need him to tell us " hamara number kab ayega" ?

Congratulations indiani.

From this thread the following forum members are still waiting for the email/SMS: tackle, Goforgreen, Sandyn16, 1June05, Niksammy, San312 and mvkrishna. All the best guys. Hope you all get your GCs this week, before we 08ers become current next week.

[goforgreen]

Congratulations indiani.

From this thread the following forum members are still waiting for the email/SMS: tackle, Goforgreen, Sandyn16, 1June05, Niksammy, San312 and mvkrishna. All the best guys. Hope you all get your GCs this week, before we 08ers become current next week.

Yes, I'm still waiting and its frustrating to have date being current and not getting approval. I'm getting worried that I might not get it this year. If the dates dont go back in October I might have 1-2 more months open window.

[Pedro Gonzales]

Yes, I'm still waiting and its frustrating to have date being current and not getting approval. I'm getting worried that I might not get it this year. If the dates dont go back in October I might have 1-2 more months open window.

I don't think you'll need to wait that long. Most SR responses seem to say that if your application is with an officer, you should hear back within 45 days. Assuming your application is with an officer (and that it got there before Aug 15th), you should see your card before the end of September. And in any case, I think the 45 day timeframe probably includes a huge cushion. The only potential problem would be if they issue an RFE when they finally process your application.

[goforgreen]

Thanks for the kind words Pedro. I raised SR a week back and again called them this week, L1 officer said I should hear back a response on the SR by Aug 31.

[Stemcell]

Thanks for your wishes bud :).


indiani
Many Congratulations !!! Enjoy and I guess tomorrow your employer is in trouble !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7W2pMmpMCY


Tackle,
Rooting for your approval man...No old timers will be left behind !

[mechanical13]

I have a quick question for August approvals -- did almost everyone receive the June 14th RFE for EVL? I was chatting with my attorney a few days back, and he'd mentioned that the % of EVL RFEs is still pretty small - less than 10%.

Curious to know that the general consensus/experience has been on the forum.

[Jagan01]

Indiani - many congratulations!! Well deserved GC especially because you have been helpful to so many others.

On another note - we need to instantly make Jagan a Guru!!! OMG how could he say what he said and came true so fast!!

Thanks Q...

However, this was just a guess that I made... True Guru's are people like you, Spec, MATT, Indiani and many more that have very important contributions in keeping this forum alive... I have been lucky to be a part of this forum and have learned a lot...

[mechanical13]

I have a quick question for August approvals -- did almost everyone receive the June 14th RFE for EVL? I was chatting with my attorney a few days back, and he'd mentioned that the % of EVL RFEs is still pretty small - less than 10%.

Curious to know that the general consensus/experience has been on the forum.

[Jagan01]

Congatulations Indiani. That's very great news.

Btw Jagan, can u pls feel and tell me when will be my turn? Kidding...how in the world u know Indiani wil be a free soul today? That's....%*%-+ awesome.

RogerFederer... ur time is coming closer... u will be current in sept so I will tell u in sep about the day and time you will get ur reply from USCIS ;)

[indiani]

I have a quick question for August approvals -- did almost everyone receive the June 14th RFE for EVL? I was chatting with my attorney a few days back, and he'd mentioned that the % of EVL RFEs is still pretty small - less than 10%.

Curious to know that the general consensus/experience has been on the forum.

as far as I know almost everyone from TSC whose date was current in august got "mass RFE".
few from NSC got it.

[Jagan01]

Do we know of any single case that had done interfiling and got current for the first time under EB2 this August and got his/her approval. I am trying to see if any interfilers that interfiled in the last year got the approval ? If so can someone please confirm.

[Jagan01]

as far as I know almost everyone from TSC whose date was current in august got "mass RFE".
few from NSC got it.

Indiani you had mentioned that probably they are approving direct cases first and porting cases later. These porters that you are talking about are they
1) Interfilers that became current first time under EB2 ? Meaning the pre-2007 EB3s that ported in the last year
2) Interfilers who had I-485 with EB2 but somehow did not get it last time and later ported to a new company in the last year
3) People who are porting and have never filed I-485 before (I think these ones might not be getting approved but just confirming)

[mechanical13]

as far as I know almost everyone from TSC whose date was current in august got "mass RFE".
few from NSC got it.

Thanks for the info Indiani. Is the consensus that going forward they're going to send RFE's to all retrogressed cases prior to approval? Seems like a massive case load for them to process if thats the case (and kind of makes pre-adjudication somewhat useless).

Congrats on the CPO btw!

[indiani]

Thanks for the info Indiani. Is the consensus that going forward they're going to send RFE's to all retrogressed cases prior to approval? Seems like a massive case load for them to process if thats the case (and kind of makes pre-adjudication somewhat useless).

Congrats on the CPO btw!

Its not part of regular procedure or rule.

This year as it has been retrogressed for so long they decided to do for TSC ,
simple answer: no one knows if they would send next year or not IMO

[indiani]

Indiani you had mentioned that probably they are approving direct cases first and porting cases later. These porters that you are talking about are they
1) Interfilers that became current first time under EB2 ? Meaning the pre-2007 EB3s that ported in the last year
2) Interfilers who had I-485 with EB2 but somehow did not get it last time and later ported to a new company in the last year
3) People who are porting and have never filed I-485 before (I think these ones might not be getting approved but just confirming)

I was talking about 1) and 2)
3) people who never filed 485 have zero chances of adjudication as they need FBI check first

[indiani]

Do we know of any single case that had done interfiling and got current for the first time under EB2 this August and got his/her approval. I am trying to see if any interfilers that interfiled in the last year got the approval ? If so can someone please confirm.

There are several

[RogerFederer]

Its not. Approvals will continue. Rate of approvals increases again next month untils visas deplete.

[tackle]

Do we know of any single case that had done interfiling and got current for the first time under EB2 this August and got his/her approval. I am trying to see if any interfilers that interfiled in the last year got the approval ? If so can someone please confirm.

My friend got his GC approved this month. First filed under EB-3 (PD 2006) and then did interfiling and became current under EB2 in August. He got a weird RFE the last week of July asking him to send a hand written letter saying that he wants to interfile (:confused: ). He sent the letter and got approved the next week. His application was processed at NSC.

[GCKnowHow]

........him to send a hand written letter saying that he wants to interfile (:confused: ). ......
:) New captchas system :)

[Pedro Gonzales]

So after no approvals yesterday, the trackitt thread for Aug 28th is starting to show some approvals. I counted 4 so far across 2 threads. Hope that picks up for our Magnificent 7 that are still standing.

[Maksimus]

He got a weird RFE the last week of July asking him to send a hand written letter saying that he wants to interfile (:confused: ).

Maybe they think that the ability to hand write a letter is a qualification for EB2! Weird, is all I can say!

[vizcard]

Maybe they think that the ability to hand write a letter is a qualification for EB2! Weird, is all I can say!

In the days of word processors, spell check,twitter and emoticons ... writing a coherent, spelling and grammatically correct, hand written note is somewhat of a lost art. :p

[Maksimus]

In the days of word processors, spell check,twitter and emoticons ... writing a coherent, spelling and grammatically correct, hand written note is somewhat of a lost art. :p

Lol true, but then the question becomes if the applicant really wrote it by his/her own hand. How would they validate?

[ragx08]

You had the right feeling jagan at 4:00pm I received the " case update" TXT / CPO email.

I am thrilled to see so many people rooting for me and want to thank everyone for the support ( which I needed badly) , Mondays have been usually good approval days as they are sending emails from 7:45 am onwards ( in fact most of them got the approval emails at this time) from the case adjudications from the last week's Friday/ Saturday.

My guess is by the end of the month they might be able to approve between 9-10 K leaving about 3K to be added to September, which should be a manageable goal to approve overall 18K , leaving only cases which needs security clearance or someone who are unable to reply to RFE on time. I know its a wishful thinking but it appears to be an achievable reality.

Congratulations Indiani!!!

[KKKKKK]

Congratulations Indiani, yours is one of the approvals I have been waiting to see after Matt's. Happy for you for a timely approval.

[sandyn16]

Congratulations indiani...

The 3k you mentioned, is that for the ones current in August or it includes ones current after September

How many visas do you think are still available until September end

[indiani]

Congratulations indiani...

The 3k you mentioned, is that for the ones current in August or it includes ones current after September

How many visas do you think are still available until September end

Total demand= 12.5K ( approx.) ( august demand) + 7.3K ( September demand)

Total SO that could be applied to India in august+ September = definitely less than 20K ( my guess is approx. 17K )

Total approvals by this month end = 9K approx.

So the answer to your last question will be approx. 8K

very difficult to arrive at any of these number with any degree of precision and so opinions might vary

[indiani]

Congratulations Indiani, yours is one of the approvals I have been waiting to see after Matt's. Happy for you for a timely approval.

I hope you get yours in a week.

[sandyn16]

Total demand= 12.5K ( approx.) ( august demand) + 7.3K ( September demand)

Total SO that could be applied to India in august+ September = definitely less than 20K ( my guess is approx. 17K )

Total approvals by this month end = 9K approx.

So the answer to your last question will be approx. 8K

very difficult to arrive at any of these number with any degree of precision and so opinions might vary



Is this number totally separate from the spillover EB3 is going to receive?

[Pedro Gonzales]

Is this number totally separate from the spillover EB3 is going to receive?

EB3I shouldn't receive any spill over this year, although it may receive more visa numbers than its annual quota, because of underallocation to EB3ROW. That isn't strictly spillover. And those visa numbers are different fromt he figures indiani had mentioned in his post.

[pdmay2008]

EB3I shouldn't receive any spill over this year, although it may receive more visa numbers than its annual quota, because of underallocation to EB3ROW. That isn't strictly spillover. And those visa numbers are different fromt he figures indiani had mentioned in his post.

We approached Month end. I think USCIS several officers are already on long week end. Good luck to every one for the next month approvals. Eagerly waiting for September 3rd.

[indiani]

We approached Month end. I think USCIS several officers are already on long week end. Good luck to every one for the next month approvals. Eagerly waiting for September 3rd.

with exception of Monday, the approvals have been modest for 2 days and none on Tuesday, there may be good chance that the earlier prediction of 9K might not even be reached by tomorrow.
So as many as 5K ( remaining august pending ) + 7.3K ( September) will be pending which needs to be processed in 14 days ( excluding last week and labor day).
even if 500cases approved only 7K might be approved, leaving about 5K cases ( worse case scenario).

For this not to happen, the pace of approvals should be constantly higher in September and GC's approved until last working day. Of course if the dates will remain same in October lot of anxiety will dissipate

[goforgreen]

Very happy to update that I got CPO emails yesterday for myself and spouse.

I would like to thank Q for starting and maintaining this site. This site brought much needed sanity to the wait, dont know how much more frustrated I would have been without this site and the wonderful folks here.

Would like to thank Teddy (I've some posts of yours saved in my local machine, I used to read those when I was down and frustrated like "I believe if the next intake happens in a timely manner there is a good chance that everyone in 2007 will have their GC in hand by Sep 2012, " you were bang on target but for USCIS issuing GCs to people in 2008 before 2007 folks, no hard feelings to 2008 folks though) , Soggadu ( your posts brought lot of humor and made the wait bearable), Spec (for the impeccable calculations), Nishant, Veni, and last but not least Pedro who said two days back that I dont have to wait for another year. Your words came true Pedro, all the best to you and I wish you get yours very soon.

We have a wonderful bunch of folks here, would like to continue discussion on topics of interest in future.

[indiani]

Very happy to update that I got CPO emails yesterday for myself and spouse.

I would like to thank Q for starting and maintaining this site. This site brought much needed sanity to the wait, dont know how much more frustrated I would have been without this site and the wonderful folks here.

Would like to thank Teddy (I've some posts of yours saved in my local machine, I used to read those when I was down and frustrated like "I believe if the next intake happens in a timely manner there is a good chance that everyone in 2007 will have their GC in hand by Sep 2012, " you were bang on target but for USCIS issuing GCs to people in 2008 before 2007 folks, no hard feelings to 2008 folks though) , Soggadu ( your posts brought lot of humor and made the wait bearable), Spec (for the impeccable calculations), Nishant, Veni, and last but not least Pedro who said two days back that I dont have to wait for another year. Your words came true Pedro, all the best to you and I wish you get yours very soon.

We have a wonderful bunch of folks here, would like to continue discussion on topics of interest in future.

Congrats, you got approval at a great time...!!

[qesehmk]

goforgreen - all is well that ends well. I am very happy for you. All the best for future path in life. Many congratulations and a happy Friday!!
Very happy to update that I got CPO emails yesterday for myself and spouse.

I would like to thank Q for starting and maintaining this site. This site brought much needed sanity to the wait, dont know how much more frustrated I would have been without this site and the wonderful folks here.

Would like to thank Teddy (I've some posts of yours saved in my local machine, I used to read those when I was down and frustrated like "I believe if the next intake happens in a timely manner there is a good chance that everyone in 2007 will have their GC in hand by Sep 2012, " you were bang on target but for USCIS issuing GCs to people in 2008 before 2007 folks, no hard feelings to 2008 folks though) , Soggadu ( your posts brought lot of humor and made the wait bearable), Spec (for the impeccable calculations), Nishant, Veni, and last but not least Pedro who said two days back that I dont have to wait for another year. Your words came true Pedro, all the best to you and I wish you get yours very soon.

We have a wonderful bunch of folks here, would like to continue discussion on topics of interest in future.

[Spectator]

Very happy to update that I got CPO emails yesterday for myself and spouse.

I would like to thank Q for starting and maintaining this site. This site brought much needed sanity to the wait, dont know how much more frustrated I would have been without this site and the wonderful folks here.

Would like to thank Teddy (I've some posts of yours saved in my local machine, I used to read those when I was down and frustrated like "I believe if the next intake happens in a timely manner there is a good chance that everyone in 2007 will have their GC in hand by Sep 2012, " you were bang on target but for USCIS issuing GCs to people in 2008 before 2007 folks, no hard feelings to 2008 folks though) , Soggadu ( your posts brought lot of humor and made the wait bearable), Spec (for the impeccable calculations), Nishant, Veni, and last but not least Pedro who said two days back that I dont have to wait for another year. Your words came true Pedro, all the best to you and I wish you get yours very soon.

We have a wonderful bunch of folks here, would like to continue discussion on topics of interest in future.goforgreen,

Congratulations. Must be a relief.

[TeddyKoochu]

Very happy to update that I got CPO emails yesterday for myself and spouse.

I would like to thank Q for starting and maintaining this site. This site brought much needed sanity to the wait, dont know how much more frustrated I would have been without this site and the wonderful folks here.

Would like to thank Teddy (I've some posts of yours saved in my local machine, I used to read those when I was down and frustrated like "I believe if the next intake happens in a timely manner there is a good chance that everyone in 2007 will have their GC in hand by Sep 2012, " you were bang on target but for USCIS issuing GCs to people in 2008 before 2007 folks, no hard feelings to 2008 folks though) , Soggadu ( your posts brought lot of humor and made the wait bearable), Spec (for the impeccable calculations), Nishant, Veni, and last but not least Pedro who said two days back that I dont have to wait for another year. Your words came true Pedro, all the best to you and I wish you get yours very soon.

We have a wonderful bunch of folks here, would like to continue discussion on topics of interest in future.

Thanks for your kind words and many congratulations to you and your family. Enjoy green life.