EB2 Predictions (Rather Calculations) - 2011

you'd get out next month. Don't worry. We will see steady movement starting October, at least by a week or two with each VB. Good Luck.

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Originally Posted by Dojoapril

Gosh...I am stuck with a PD of 4/18, are we gonna see any movement in future bulletins or are we stuck till April-May nex year...So Cruel....

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agree 100%.

Mr.CO always finds different excuses to justify what he does.

the truth is that nobody is monitoring what he does.

he does not give a damn to EB immigrants at all.

While we are suffering, he is still eating/sleeping/shitting very well.

excuse my language. that's the truth.

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Originally Posted by gcseeker

Nishant

Nice observation and yes that helps digest the pain better. I always beleive CO will find any way to justify any movement...forward ,backward,stuck and spillover into any visa category.It is totally left to the whim and fancy of CO/DOS.We just have to hope for better results next spillover season.

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Extremely disappointing visa bulletin with dates not moving at all for EB2IC. I am more frustrated because there is no clarity or transparency offered at all on part of the USCIS or DOS. Bulletin after bulletin, the saga of endless waiting continues.

I am going to quote a world famous unknown personality who said on some other forum:

This whole prediction game is like predicting the number of beans in a jar - except in this case there is a whole other jar that exists but no one knows how many beans are in there. So no matter how accurate your prediction of the number of beans in the visible jar, you will always be wrong since there is a hidden jar that we don't even see.


I rest my case. USCIS wins.

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Originally Posted by nishant2200

One observation: Let's consider that when we say "they are wasting visas by not doing BTM at right moment", is incorrect. The visas can always be given to EB3 ROW. They did not go waste then. EB2 I/C, we, are not center of universe to DOS/USCIS/VO/CO/WH, no one cares specifically for us. To not be disappointed, we need to understand this. This is my opinion. I think it's not the right time to say this, as today everyone, including me, is disappointed. But I did want to make this thought of mine shared.

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Nishant, we can always count on you to bring a very practical perspective. Though massively disappointed, i think we need to continue to focus on what we need to do to be successful in whatever we are pursuing.

On a lighter note - one of my colleagues has PD of 4/21/2007 and we are working on the same project. He had been preparing all the documents needed to file 485 for last couple of weeks. We were in a client meeting and all of a sudden he blurts out "What the f***", every one is looking at him quizzically as it was totally inappropriate. Only after the meeting we realized that he was checking visa bulletin during the meeting and he was reacting to visa bulletin and not to what client team was saying :-) I need to go and explain this to program manager now :-)

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Originally Posted by Dojoapril

Gosh...I am stuck with a PD of 4/18, are we gonna see any movement in future bulletins or are we stuck till April-May nex year...So Cruel....

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This is cruel. But you should be current any month now.

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Originally Posted by gcseeker

It is disappointing to say the least.Just wanted to cheer up folks

1.Please be careful about your jobs and hold on to them (especially with the economic environment) untill next spillover season.
2.Let us hope the spillover season starts early ( April 2012).
3.Dont put much into the stock market untill it bottoms out completely.This way you reduce one stress factor.
4.People with Post Aug 2007 PD's might be better off accepting promotions and getting back in line....Since who knows what effects will predominate next year and ultimately it might be end of 2012 or early 2013 before they get their Gc's.

Personally I am convinced to take that risk (mine is Nov 2007 PD) and I have already wasted a lot of my opportunities waiting for the damn date to become current.

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gcseeker great advice. I especially strongly recommend 3 & 4 on your list.

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Originally Posted by ssvp22

Q are you working in Charlotte downtown? If yes, lets meet sometime

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Would've liked to. I belong to the state that has the distinct honor of passing SB1070 ;) Those from here wouldn't be a bad idea to get together for a drink. We will ask Jack Brown to send us whatever he is going to smoke tonight :)

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Originally Posted by harick

and now........ the winner of ....... best prediction award for the month of September..........is ????????? (oh..oh... it has been cancelled due to non availability of VISA numbers)

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Harick ... thanks .. we need this tonight !!

As per next year .... I would bet that the SOFAD next year should be similar to what we will see this year unless Kazarian situation changes.

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Originally Posted by qblogfan

agree 100%.

Mr.CO always finds different excuses to justify what he does.

the truth is that nobody is monitoring what he does.

he does not give a damn to EB immigrants at all.

While we are suffering, he is still eating/sleeping/shitting very well.

excuse my language. that's the truth.

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Another example of the crap Washington DC is putting people through. CO could have easily moved the dates (BTM), taken a year to clean up the cases, and keep them ready by April.

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Originally Posted by qesehmk

Wow .... i step out for a chick-a-fill and DoS releases this!!!

Very disappointing but Props to Nishant for pointing out correctly the silver line behind this - No EB1 EB2ROW backlog next year!

Basically Apr 07 is SFM ... there shouldn't be retro. But in hindsight it seems they are clearing as much EB1 EB2ROW as possible. Please see 5-7 pages back I had pointed this to Teddy. But I hoped (against the data point obviously now) that it was a spurious trend. But it seems it is not.

Honestly this throws any talk of even a BTM into quite a spin. I don't see under what pretext DoS can allow a BTM to happen. And if they wait till May 2007 then whats going to happen is they will waste visas. So a bit perplexed. Probably we will establish better clarity in the next few days.

On the other hand EB3I movement tell you that porting is only 4K at best. The proof?

Sep 2010 Visa bulletin date for EB2I = Jan 2002
Sep 2011 Visa bulletin date for EB2I = Sep 2002

The difference in visas = 5K.
Less 2.8K allocation = 2.2K in EB2I porting
Assume 1.8K porting for rest of world including china

So as we have been consistently saying total porting is not more than 4K.


touche!


This has nothing to do with EB3 spillover. This has everything to do with EB1 andEB2ROW.


KLPD is very apt indeed. The funny thing is ... even girls used to say that without knowing what it was!

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Q, I have bolded what you said. Your argument is incorrect. What it means is: out of the total porting numbers, 2.2K were between Jan 2002 and Sept 2002. The rest were between Sept 2002 and Apr 2007. We really don't yet know how many in total, but a rough estimation may be made by adding the decrease in demand data of EB3-I between Sept 2002 and Apr 2007 and the 2.2K.

Yes, agree.

The reason why he is not doing BTM is that he does not care at all........

BTM does not make any difference to his life, he is still eating/sleeping/shitting very well everyday.

Thousands of families are on the edge because of his action, but he just does not care........

We have been stuck to this deep hole for too long. Endless waiting is killing all these talented people. I just don't believe people can focus on work while being treated like shit by DOS/USCIS.

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Originally Posted by tanu_75

Another example of the crap Washington DC is putting people through. CO could have easily moved the dates (BTM), taken a year to clean up the cases, and keep them ready by April.

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Well said. While we get into the details and intricacies in the calculations here, I feel the Visa Office/CO just think in broad strokes and decide on what is going to be the easiest for the agencies to cope with. Hence, on hindsight, the expectations for "making PD current" etc seem over the top now.
legislative change is the only way out. While our friends who are PWMB or PDs in 2007 can wait for the VB to move one week every month for most of next fiscal year, folks like me with PDs in 2008 (we know there huge density of applications the whole of 2008) and beyond are doomed to wait at the mercy of spillovers.

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Originally Posted by qblogfan

comfort. it's so disappointing!

I can't believe this country:

people who have Phd/MS degrees have to wait for 5 or more years for GC.
people who seek asylum only need to wait for 1 year for GC
people who can win GC lottery obtain GC immediately

this is not a fair system and they are going to the wrong direction little by little.

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KD the whole argument is not incorrect. But I agree that it can be made more accurate if we include post 2002 porting cases.

We will know exact number when we see teh Oct 2011 inventory and then compare with Oct 2010.

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Originally Posted by kd2008

Q, I have bolded what you said. Your argument is incorrect. What it means is: out of the total porting numbers, 2.2K were between Jan 2002 and Sept 2002. The rest were between Sept 2002 and Apr 2007. We really don't yet know how many in total, but a rough estimation may be made by adding the decrease in demand data of EB3-I between Sept 2002 and Apr 2007 and the 2.2K.

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Originally Posted by qblogfan

agree 100%.

Mr.CO always finds different excuses to justify what he does.

the truth is that nobody is monitoring what he does.

he does not give a damn to EB immigrants at all.

While we are suffering, he is still eating/sleeping/shitting very well.

excuse my language. that's the truth.

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Actually if you look at this another way CO is just the administrator his job is to ensure that the allocations are met. Unfortunately the system is so complex with too many rules that intersect each other his job is tough. At the end of the day the problem is that the numbers are way to less. We are all SOFAD dependent in 2009 it was 10K, in 2010 it was 26K now in 2011 its 30K plus, unfortunately it’s time for all of us to set realistic expectations. The dream run has raised expectations to a very high level.

I agree w Teddy. CO is trying to do his job best. His hands are tied by the laws and the numbers available.

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Originally Posted by TeddyKoochu

Actually if you look at this another way CO is just the administrator his job is to ensure that the allocations are met. Unfortunately the system is so complex with too many rules that intersect each other his job is tough. At the end of the day the problem is that the numbers are way to less. We are all SOFAD dependent in 2009 it was 10K, in 2010 it was 26K now in 2011 its 30K plus, unfortunately it’s time for all of us to set realistic expectations. The dream run has raised expectations to a very high level.

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As every one predicted the Labor clearance caused the ROW to utilize more visas, otherwise they would spilled over to I/C. In May they did not see I-140 demand, which kicked in June/July onwards, then they stopped moving dates.

Only hope for the year is a bill that removes country limit on EB category. Hope for the best.

ok guys lets crunch some data for coming year. We might get uscis inventory pretty soon.

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Originally Posted by qesehmk

KD the whole argument is not incorrect. But I agree that it can be made more accurate if we include post 2002 porting cases.

We will know exact number when we see teh Oct 2011 inventory and then compare with Oct 2010.

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As the inventory was updated in May with the Local office demand I think the only way would be to wait for the next one in October and then extrapolate to a year. Otherwise you can assume that EB3 I itself had atleast 2K LO demand that makes porting 6K. Let me know if Iam missing something.

Guys, what are the various data reports we are expecting in upcoming months now, that we should watch out for. So that we can start the analysis again.

I think. to calculate EB3->EB2 porting, we also need to consider CP/district office cases that never showed up in the inventory but I am not sure, how significant is this one.

Another way to do it would be to look at EB2 actual approvals and then comparing that with Oct 2010 inventory.

I know either approachs will have some distortion due to LO cases. But may be we can triangulate using 2 -3 different methods.

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Originally Posted by TeddyKoochu

As the inventory was updated in May with the Local office demand I think the only way would be to wait for the next one in October and then extrapolate to a year. Otherwise you can assume that EB3 I itself had atleast 2K LO demand that makes porting 6K. Let me know if Iam missing something.

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why not send this mail to the Prez this and he will use it in his campaign speech to gain emotional votes

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Originally Posted by qblogfan

Yes, agree.

The reason why he is not doing BTM is that he does not care at all........

BTM does not make any difference to his life, he is still eating/sleeping/shitting very well everyday.

Thousands of families are on the edge because of his action, but he just does not care........

We have been stuck to this deep hole for too long. Endless waiting is killing all these talented people. I just don't believe people can focus on work while being treated like shit by DOS/USCIS.

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qblogfan,

I understand your pain, trust me it'll be 14 years tomorrow, I really understand what you are talking about.

At the end of the day, CO, as I see is doing much better job than his predecessors. He is doing his best to not waste visa numbers, and wiggle enough room for CI categories with in his bounds.

Like Teddy and Others mentioned, our expectations were high and the information/reasoning provided is not enough to convince either forward movement/no-movement.

Hang in there mate, I really wish you well. If you see the difference between yesterday-today-tomorrow is just our 'expectations'.

Best!

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Originally Posted by qblogfan

Yes, agree.

The reason why he is not doing BTM is that he does not care at all........

BTM does not make any difference to his life, he is still eating/sleeping/shitting very well everyday.

Thousands of families are on the edge because of his action, but he just does not care........

We have been stuck to this deep hole for too long. Endless waiting is killing all these talented people. I just don't believe people can focus on work while being treated like shit by DOS/USCIS.

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Originally Posted by TeddyKoochu

As the inventory was updated in May with the Local office demand I think the only way would be to wait for the next one in October and then extrapolate to a year. Otherwise you can assume that EB3 I itself had atleast 2K LO demand that makes porting 6K. Let me know if Iam missing something.

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Teddy/Q/Spec/Veni,

Do you think there wont be any movements in the coming bulletins till next spill over season which is pretty much May 2012. Or there is chance of one or more weeks movements in each bulletin.

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Originally Posted by Kanmani

How do we know 2011 number is 30K + ?

Shouldn't it lesser than 30K ?

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Count between Apr 2007 and May 2006 is ~26k, porting is atleast 4k

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Originally Posted by bieber

Count between Apr 2007 and May 2006 is ~26k, porting is atleast 4k

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We need to add PWMB also

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Originally Posted by qesehmk

This is cruel. But you should be current any month now.


gcseeker great advice. I especially strongly recommend 3 & 4 on your list.


Would've liked to. I belong to the state that has the distinct honor of passing SB1070 ;) Those from here wouldn't be a bad idea to get together for a drink. We will ask Jack Brown to send us whatever he is going to smoke tonight :)


Harick ... thanks .. we need this tonight !!

As per next year .... I would bet that the SOFAD next year should be similar to what we will see this year unless Kazarian situation changes.

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You know what i am going to smoke...more thn welcome to join..
I have moved to a state where we have Desi woman as a governor but also have n honor of passing something similar to SB1070 and on top of that some of the TOP dumb state legislators are talking about having border security at state border. Are u Efing kidding me? Are they Efing HIGH? We border GA,NC and Atlantic Ocean. What kind of border security are they talking about?
anyways, jokes aside. It is good that VB didn't retro today. But i was hoping we will have enough movement to have total of 12 months movement for FY year 2011. It was little short. If it averages less thn a year for next few years, GC wait for EB2 will someday reach to EB3 levels.

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Originally Posted by neospeed

We need to add PWMB also

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that 26k is almost till the end of april and assumed that will take care of PWMB and 90% approval rate

thanks for your kind words!

I just feel our EB immigrants are not being treated well.

I am upset because he should have BTMed in this summer, but he didn't.

I seriously doubt it would cause him any trouble if he had BTMed.

People with PD after July 2007 have been waiting for 4 years, how much longer should these people wait?

EB2 should be mad as hell!

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Originally Posted by leo07

qblogfan,

I understand your pain, trust me it'll be 14 years tomorrow, I really understand what you are talking about.

At the end of the day, CO, as I see is doing much better job than his predecessors. He is doing his best to not waste visa numbers, and wiggle enough room for CI categories with in his bounds.

Like Teddy and Others mentioned, our expectations were high and the information/reasoning provided is not enough to convince either forward movement/no-movement.

Hang in there mate, I really wish you well. If you see the difference between yesterday-today-tomorrow is just our 'expectations'.

Best!

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One Chinese guy cotacted Mr.CO for his hold of EB2 and no explanation in VB, he replied:

I attempt to provide guidance regarding future visa
availability on a quarterly basis, and whenever I anticipate a significant
change. Attempting to make longer range projections is extremely unwise
given the potential changes in demand which can occur at any time. Recent
changes in USCIS processing of Employment cases is a great example.
Despite their trend of a somewhat low/stable rate of non China/India EB1 and
EB2 processing during the first 8+ months, large amounts of demand have
suddenly appeared and prevented movement of the EB2 date. Such a large rate
demand was completely unexpected an unannounced until it began to appear.

It's just like shit as always. He always finds excuses for his decision. Nothing new, just full of bull shit again!

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Originally Posted by qblogfan

thanks for your kind words!

I just feel our EB immigrants are not being treated well.

I am upset because he should have BTMed in this summer, but he didn't.

I seriously doubt it would cause him any trouble if he had BTMed.

People with PD after July 2007 have been waiting for 4 years, how much longer should these people wait?

EB2 should be mad as hell!

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Usually there would be max 1-2 weeks once a while. But the major movement won't be until May-Jun onwards 2012.

Except however this year in unusual that they need to build pipeline if SOFAD is going to be more than 16-18K next year. So I would expect a good movement by Q1 2012 ie. calendar year.

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Originally Posted by srivi2007

Teddy/Q/Spec/Veni,
Do you think there wont be any movements in the coming bulletins till next spill over season which is pretty much May 2012. Or there is chance of one or more weeks movements in each bulletin.

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Originally Posted by leo07

qblogfan,I understand your pain, trust me it'll be 14 years tomorrow,

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Leo a few more years and you can start calling yourself "Native Indian"!! Jokes Apart ... but i hope your case sorts out soon in case your kids are going to become college age anytime soon.

again its tough luck for pwmb.. this is range of people who's wounds are bruised all the time...hope 2012 brings in good news...

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Originally Posted by CO

I attempt to provide guidance regarding future visa
availability on a quarterly basis, and whenever I anticipate a significant
change. Attempting to make longer range projections is extremely unwise
given the potential changes in demand which can occur at any time. Recent
changes in USCIS processing of Employment cases is a great example.
Despite their trend of a somewhat low/stable rate of non China/India EB1 and
EB2 processing during the first 8+ months, large amounts of demand have
suddenly appeared and prevented movement of the EB2 date. Such a large rate
demand was completely unexpected an unannounced until it began to appear.

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looks like Q's take is spot on, EB1 and EB2-Row took over the remaining numbers and may be this is good for next year SOFAD

can that person ask CO why there was no BTM when it wud be prudent to do so this time?

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Originally Posted by qblogfan

One Chinese guy cotacted Mr.CO for his hold of EB2 and no explanation in VB, he replied:

I attempt to provide guidance regarding future visa
availability on a quarterly basis, and whenever I anticipate a significant
change. Attempting to make longer range projections is extremely unwise
given the potential changes in demand which can occur at any time. Recent
changes in USCIS processing of Employment cases is a great example.
Despite their trend of a somewhat low/stable rate of non China/India EB1 and
EB2 processing during the first 8+ months, large amounts of demand have
suddenly appeared and prevented movement of the EB2 date. Such a large rate
demand was completely unexpected an unannounced until it began to appear.

It's just like shit as always. He always finds excuses for his decision. Nothing new, just full of bull shit again!

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A preliminary rough analysis for FY 2012.

8000 - demand data
4000 - PWMB hidden demand
6000 - Porting demand

They are kind of already beginning with above 18k demand in FY 2012, just moving dates back to July 2007 threshold would yield them 12k demand as well as the porting is a throughout the year consistent phenomena.

Let’s assume the 5k for EB2 I/C negates the Porting to be just 1000.

So we can say they are starting with 13k hidden/known/will arise demand.

Let's say each month later on, till Q3 2008 has almost 2500 demand each month.

Half August 2007 : 1250
Each month then on till late 2008 : 2500

SO -- Dates
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13k -- 15th August 2007
14.25k -- 1st Sep 2007
17k -- 8th Oct 2007
19.5k -- 8th Nov 2007
20k -- 15th Nov 2007
22k -- 8th Dec 2007
24.5k -- 8st Jan 2008
27k -- 8th Feb 2008
29.5k -- 8th March 2008
30k -- 15th March 2008

Positives:
- All EB2 I/C till 15th April 2007 accounted for.
- No 15/12 demand for EB1, EB2 ROW coming into FY 2012, backlog reduced as much as they could, so backlog is not a concern in FY 2012
- EB2 ROW shall continue to remain current

Puzzles:
- what will be patterns of EB1, EB2 ROW, EB5
- will CO consider doing quarterly SO in conjunction with SFM
- is BTM in favor at all
- what will be strategy of CO in terms of SFM, UFM, BTM, and so on to have the pipeline functioning properly

Guys, let me know if something is wrong, or can be better factored in.

qbf, actually this answer by CO explains very well. I am really amazed as to how the chinese have this line of communication with him. Hats off.

I understand your disappointment, there is nothing I can say to soothe that. Will pray to God for everyone. Hang on.

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Originally Posted by qblogfan

One Chinese guy cotacted Mr.CO for his hold of EB2 and no explanation in VB, he replied:

I attempt to provide guidance regarding future visa
availability on a quarterly basis, and whenever I anticipate a significant
change. Attempting to make longer range projections is extremely unwise
given the potential changes in demand which can occur at any time. Recent
changes in USCIS processing of Employment cases is a great example.
Despite their trend of a somewhat low/stable rate of non China/India EB1 and
EB2 processing during the first 8+ months, large amounts of demand have
suddenly appeared and prevented movement of the EB2 date. Such a large rate
demand was completely unexpected an unannounced until it began to appear.

It's just like shit as always. He always finds excuses for his decision. Nothing new, just full of bull shit again!

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Originally Posted by bieber

looks like Q's take is spot on, EB1 and EB2-Row took over the remaining numbers and may be this is good for next year SOFAD

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I dont think it is good since by next year people filling in EB1 and their attorneys will learn to game the Kazarian memo/system and start eating 100% of EB1 quota. Remember these are smart hard working people and will definitely game the system to their advantage when required. In other words, EB1 folks will make any kinda cock-n-bull stories about their work experience, publish another 4-5 junk papers, which will make it hard to reject their case.

thank you sir.

I am very mad about this VB. I think many people feel the same.

I hope all of us can get GC ASAP!

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Originally Posted by nishant2200

qbf, actually this answer by CO explains very well. I am really amazed as to how the chinese have this line of communication with him. Hats off.

I understand your disappointment, there is nothing I can say to soothe that. Will pray to God for everyone.

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I don't know that person. He just asked and posted on mitbbs.

Originally he told us that Mr.CO is helping EB2, but it turns out CO f***ed EB2.

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Originally Posted by cbpds1

can that person ask CO why there was no BTM when it wud be prudent to do so this time?

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Originally Posted by qblogfan

large amounts of demand have
suddenly appeared and prevented movement of the EB2 date. Such a large rate
demand was completely unexpected an unannounced until it began to appear.

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I dont believe this theory. This is akin to saying - hey its summer and ice cream sales are going to go up. Only way this can be justified is that EB1 attorneys have figured out a way around the Kazarian memo and are back with full force.

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Originally Posted by ssvp22

I dont think it is good since by next year people filling in EB1 and their attorneys will learn to game the Kazarian memo/system and start eating 100% of EB1 quota. Remember these are smart hard working people and will definitely game the system to their advantage when required. In other words, EB1 folks will make any kinda cock-n-bull stories about their work experience, publish another 4-5 junk papers, which will make it hard to reject their case.

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That is true, they will be smarter. It won't be 12k from them again. I think this year was the peak in SOFAD. It should be written in gold in history. itihas ke pannon par suvarn aksharon se likha jaega.

Let's hope USCIS also gets smarter and rejects their cock-n-bull stories.

I am digressing now, but I saw guys from Nepal get their GCs in 8-9 months in EB2 ROW. Perspective :D :(

joke:

chaukidar to my father: aapka beta kya kar raha hai
my father: naukeri kar raha hai, 15 saal se GC ka wait kar raha hai
chaukidar: saabji, mei toh next year GC par jaa raha hun amrika, mera beta toh 6 saal pehle hi citizen ban gaya

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Originally Posted by nishant2200

A preliminary rough analysis for FY 2012.

8000 - demand data
4000 - PWMB hidden demand
6000 - Porting demand

They are kind of already beginning with above 18k demand in FY 2012, just moving dates back to July 2007 threshold would yield them 12k demand as well as the porting is a throughout the year consistent phenomena.

Let’s assume the 5k for EB2 I/C negates the Porting to be just 1000.

So we can say they are starting with 13k hidden/known/will arise demand.

Let's say each month later on, till Q3 2008 has almost 2500 demand each month.

Half August 2007 : 1250
Each month then on till late 2008 : 2500

SO -- Dates
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13k -- 15th August 2007
14.25k -- 1st Sep 2007
17k -- 8th Oct 2007
19.5k -- 8th Nov 2007
20k -- 15th Nov 2007
22k -- 8th Dec 2007
24.5k -- 8st Jan 2008
27k -- 8th Feb 2008
29.5k -- 8th March 2008
30k -- 15th March 2008

Positives:
- All EB2 I/C till 15th April 2007 accounted for.
- No 15/12 demand for EB1, EB2 ROW coming into FY 2012, backlog reduced as much as they could, so backlog is not a concern in FY 2012
- EB2 ROW shall continue to remain current

Puzzles:
- what will be patterns of EB1, EB2 ROW, EB5
- will CO consider doing quarterly SO in conjunction with SFM
- is BTM in favor at all
- what will be strategy of CO in terms of SFM, UFM, BTM, and so on to have the pipeline functioning properly

Guys, let me know if something is wrong, or can be better factored in.

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This looks a reasonable estimate to me. I will expect the total SOFAD (incl. EB2-I/C quota of 5.6K) to be at least in the range of 20K - 25K; so the dates should surely move to somewhere around late 2007 (if not more).

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Originally Posted by nishant2200

qbf, actually this answer by CO explains very well. I am really amazed as to how the chinese have this line of communication with him. Hats off.

I understand your disappointment, there is nothing I can say to soothe that. Will pray to God for everyone. Hang on.

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I think IV also got direct line, but they don't share any info. If they share also it will be very cryptic.