USCIS has never honored filing dates since more than a year I believe!
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USCIS has never honored filing dates since more than a year I believe!
Can we expect still more porting from EB3? Or EB3 is going to move faster now on...
I can only say 6 months movement per year. So you are looking at May 2010 getting current in 2 years. This is assuming that the conditions are more or less the same. I sincerely hope that conditions improve and that we see good movement in the next two years.Quote:
Originally Posted by newyorker123
I have a July 2009 PD and have both EB-3 and EB-2 I-140s approved. Provided if USCIS allows EB-3 filing date, I will file I-485 and if EB-2 moves ahead of EB-3 I plan to link my EB-2 I-140 to the same. Hopefully I get greened sooner one or the other way.
My PD is Jul 2009. In case USCIS honors the application filing date can I downgrade to EB3 and file 140 and 485 concurrently? Is it advisable if its possible?
True. Till last year, they started the FY with several thousands of inventory, at least, for EB3-I. FY 18 started EB3-I with about 6.2K inventory. Dates moved since last year and inventory hasn't shown a lot of new applications for EB-3 I category. People who got chances to port to EB-2 I would have already ported (2007-2008). That was the very reason EB2-I retrogressed from 2009 to 2008 for the last few years. If you look at the July inventory,there were only 473 cases left for EB-3 I. And, July VB had EB-3 FAD set to Nov 08.Quote:
Originally Posted by newyorker123
Without moving EB3 I filing dates aggressively they may not be able to generate a decent demand for FY 19. The probability is more for USCIS to accept the filing date for EB3-I this time around.
This year I would estimate Eb3 I got around 10,000 compared to 6600 from 2017. We have to wait for Annual statistics 2018 for the actual numbers. EB3 -I moved from March 2005 to Jan 2009 in about 18 months.Quote:
Originally Posted by jimmys
To receive 10000 EB3 In should atleast move to January 1 2011. Hope this fulfills your estimatesQuote:
Originally Posted by AceMan
I meant 10000 would be number Eb3 I got for Fy 2018Quote:
Originally Posted by texas_
I'm not not sure I would agree with that assessment.Quote:
Originally Posted by AceMan
I think EB3-I has received a similar amount in FY2018 compared to FY2017, or even a slightly lower number.
There was spike in EB3-I approvals in April 2018, when the FAD moved from 01JAN07 to 01FEB08. That's consistent with clearing out the existing cases up to July 2007 PD. There were 96 Trackitt approvals Oct-Mar, then 64 approvals in April and 15 in May. Since then, just 14. The total currently stands at 189, compared to 215 for all of FY2017.
After April/beginning of May then, pretty much no approvals. That wouldn't be terribly surprising. Even though CO moved the EB3-I dates fairly early in the FY, the USCIS interview requirement has made processing and adjudicating new I-485 cases glacially slow. There simply hasn't been enough time to adjudicate post July 2007 PD cases that may have been submitted. Those cases will not be with the Service Centers, so we have zero visibility into the number of those cases.
I accept the above conclusions may be an over reliance on Trackitt data. It may be that new EB3-I filers are simply no longer entering their cases on Trackitt or updating them. However, even that factor wouldn't, I believe, bridge the difference in numbers.
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Originally Posted by Spectator
My PD is March 2010 EB2; just got my EAD renewed till Aug 2020. How many more EAD renewals will I need before getting GC? :eek:
With the hard numbers we have 6000 till July 18. I was expecting July and August clear another 4000. But if we got only under 600 in the last quarter, then we might end up with disappointing performance for 2018 as well. If the dates don’t move for November bulletin then you will be right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spectator
Hi,
I am traveling this weekend for 2 weeks out of country, I will be back on 30th. My date will be current next month. Will that be a problem as my i-94 will be updated and they will not have the latest travel record? Just making sure that I have everything before I travel. replies would be appreciated.
May 2018 EB-3 I FAD was Sep 1,08 and you think service centers have no visibility of those numbers in Sep 1st week of 2018. I agree there isn't enough time to approve but won't they show up in the inventory few months down the line?Quote:
Originally Posted by Spectator
The lockbox's are routing new cases to NBC for distribution to Field Offices it appears.Quote:
Originally Posted by jimmys
The USCIS Inventory report is not going to show those cases at all. They'll be approved at the FO if the case is current at time of interview.
The only way they might appear in the Inventory, is if there was retrogression at the time of interview. The FO could not approve the case and has to return the case to TSC, who will then make the final adjudication when the PD is current again. Even then, it's a timing issue, since most would be approved between inventory publications.
How do DOS/USCIS manage Final Action Dates for EB-3 I if they don't have a hold of pending inventory for new filings in NBC and/or FO? Am I missing something here?Quote:
Originally Posted by Spectator
My PD is October 2009 and I got a 2 year renewal this week. So.. who knows? I wouldn't be surprised to have to renew atleast once more.Quote:
Originally Posted by smuggymba
Just out of curiosity, If EB2- PD Mar 2010 is on EAD, then why they are not moving the date of filling for Eb2-I to 2010 ? If there are porters in EB2 for 2009, then how many are left so that it can move to 2010? Appreciate any reply.
I recently renewed my EAD/AP and got approved but the validity is only for 1 year. My PD is EB2-I March 2010. I have been getting 2 years validity ever since I applied my 485.
Any thoughts on why I have been granted only 1 year?
Because the officer processing your case was having a bad day. He got yelled at by his wife for not doing the dishes :pQuote:
Originally Posted by march1612
Lol!!, I hope he took his anger on me and spared my fellow applicants :)Quote:
Originally Posted by GCkaLADDU
1. Priority date is only advanced when there are green cards available to be given.Quote:
Just out of curiosity, If EB2- PD Mar 2010 is on EAD, then why they are not moving the date of filling for Eb2-I to 2010 ? If there are porters in EB2 for 2009, then how many are left so that it can move to 2010? Appreciate any reply.
2. Sometimes, they advance priority dates to generate demand in advance so as not to waste green cards at the end of the fiscal year.
Since both the cases are not true, they can't legally advance the date. Obama admin tried to use 2 as a reason to advance EB2-I dates few years ago, but USCIS refused to do so as it would be illegal and obama admin had to backdown.
Looking at the USCIS Inventory, there are already 4-5 FY approval's worth of EB2-I cases pending. Under those circumstances, given what the job is, why would CO advance the Filing Date to 2010 for EB2-I?Quote:
Originally Posted by LeoAugust
On the other hand, CO has no visibility of EB3-I demand, similar to the EB2-I situation in FY2012.
CO has complained for years that he has no visibility into upcoming demand from USCIS.
I'd love CO to just say to USCIS (with apologies to Independence Day) UP YOURS!! and move the FAD for EB3-I into 2011/12 for a month or two, then retrogress before any cases can be approved, since USCIS won't use the mechanism of Filing Dates that were introduced.
Only this sort of action has any hope of forcing USCIS to become more transparent. We only have the Inventory because Congress forced it on USCIS as a result of the July 2007 debacle. Now USCIS have made even that useless.
DOS are able to publish, within a month, a breakdown of monthly CP approvals by Country and by Category, as well as a breakdown by Consular Office and Category - all this from posts spread out across the globe. These reports cover not just EB, but all possible methods that lead to an immigrant visa being issued.
Meanwhile, USCIS can't even count EB cases from less locations in the USA on a quarterly basis.
That would be "fun"tastic. However if we should remember OCtober bullet 2015.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spectator
That's why it has to be the FAD - USCIS have no say in that and CO could correctly argue that he's had to do it because he's seeing no demand from previous movements.Quote:
Originally Posted by AceMan
Sure, it would piss off USCIS big time and they'd go screaming to their like minded GOP supporters in Congress, or even the turd in chief. But hey, that would be fun. I suspect Pompeo wouldn't allow it, truth be told.
One can dream.