http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/f...04-01-2015.pdf
Much awaited ... I-485 pending inventory ....
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http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/f...04-01-2015.pdf
Much awaited ... I-485 pending inventory ....
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I-485 inventory - where is the country wise data??
I always thought that the next inventory report is going to be useless.
You can still derive the per country data by assuming that pending inventory prior to 2010 is mostly belonging to India and the pending inventory in 2013/2014/2015 is mostly belonging to EB2-nonIC.
Shame on USCIS - they are actively working to keep things opaque.
First they release the data late. Then they hide the countrywise data.
On another note - comparing this with January inventory - it is clear that the inventory is increasing across the board - which is a bad sign for backlogged countries.
I don't see the link on their regular website with other inventory reports. It shows Jan 2015 report on the top.
http://www.uscis.gov/green-card/gree...-485-inventory
I hope we did not hack into their files
Thanks Q. Yes it was by browser. I see it now.
gcvijay,
I also said:
PERM processing times did not increase, so that scenario has actually happened.Quote:
Worldwide
Unless PERM processing time slow considerably, EB2-WW would generate sufficient demand to use their allocation in FY2015. FA to EB2-I would be limited. However, it seems very likely that PERM processing times will increase, allowing FA to EB2-I.
I'll be surprised if there is any further movement for EB2-I this FY.
Worldwide demand remains high and there still appears to be a lot of cases yet to be approved within the 01OCT08 EB2-I COD.
I came here more than 15 years ago. I hope we get good SO this year.
Total Trackitt Approvals for all EB in FY2015-
1st Quarter - 481 - Resulted in total 21368 approvals as per USCIS performance data so the conversion rate is 44.42412 ( 1 Trackitt approval is around 45 real approvals)
Non Indian approval % is 42.
2nd Quarter - 488 - Resulted in total 26232 approvals as per USCIS performance data so the conversion rate is 54 ( 1 Trackitt approval is 54 real approvals)
Non Indian approval % is 56
3rd Quarter - 945- Non Indian approval % is 49 so if the average conversion ratio is 50, it would result in Approx. 47250 approvals in 3rd quarter alone.
4th Quarter - if we take out 15% CP approvals we'll left with around 35425 GC for 4th quarter.
I am not sure how long these numbers can take EB3 India forward but looks like EB2I may not move further in FY 15.
geterdone,
To that number, you have to add approvals made in the period October-March. In addition, you can't assume that all porting cases that will be approved are actually shown in the EB2 Inventory.
For those reasons, the number of approvals needed to completely clear EB2-I up to the end of September would therefore be much more than the 5-5.k that might represent EB2-I cases.
Hi YT,
Any change in your earlier predictions?
Spec,
You made a pessimistic calculation in the Page 1 Post also.
That calculation was spot on. I remember reading that a year ago and I thought - No way it will be this bad.
Gotta hand it to you. SPOT ON.
Spec and other experts,
I do not understand the 140 filings data published in the 2015 CISOMB annual report. According to the 140 filings table on page 51, the 140 filings for EB3 has been low for the last few years at approximately 20K, and drops off to 5k and 485 for FY 2013 and 2014. Even factoring in the backlogged countries inability to file 485's, shouldn't the table correspond to the 485's and shouldn't we have seen EB3 spillovers in 10s of thousands to the backlogged countries by now. What am I missing? Could you help me understand the 140 table?
Any idea why they would do that? Hiding/not giving country wise data. Is it because its difficult to derive that or something else is cooking?
If you go back and look at my earlier posts, exactly a year ago I had projected 12k as the EB2I allocations in FY15. At the beginning of FY15 I changed that figure to 16k and 2 months ago I reduced it further to 14k and now if I relook at the available data pointers I’m circling back to 12k or even lesser figure and definitely not more. I don’t want to speculate anymore as we are almost at the end of the year and we will know in 2 or 3 months what could be that number. Instead I wanted to put my thoughts here for a long term view on EB-India. I was advocating for a longtime now that EB3-I backlogs will get wiped off in FY16 and it’s the time for beginning of the action. The brake-ups on the 140 numbers from this document: http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/fil...Report_508.pdfis incredible and I was looking this kind of a data for long time. Thanks to Spec for pointing to this document. Though Spec rejected the numbers for FY14 from that document thinking that those were erroneous but I’m accepting those breakups even if I append a digit to the EB3-I figure:485 I’m still OK as those breakups will prove my long term prediction on EB3-I : EB3-I Projections.We have seen a very less action for last 9 months and even if it continues like that for the next 3 months I don’t worry as I am expecting there will be an intense action takes place in next 18 months and I’m expecting the following things will occur:
1) EB2-I becoming a new EB3-I in terms of backlogs
2) Complete Wipeout of EB3-I backlogs
3) EB2-I getting relief from a complete STOP on porting of EB3I-EB2I
4) People realizing a new avenue to circumvent the dense backlogs of EB2-I by the way of downgrading from EB2-I to EB3-I
5) More importantly inventory building of EB2-I and EB3-I.
6) Continuous domination of India in all the three EB categories 1, 2 & 3. We will not get surprised if EB-India alone gets 50K to 60K visas in these 3 categories put together on yearly basis.
Yes. We will witness all the above in the next 18 months i.e. till the end of CY16.
YT,
I had mentioned back then when you made the prediction 2 months ago that the SO for EB2I will be much lesser. Please refer the post http://www.qesehmk.org/forums/showth...5767#post55767
I would still feel that we can see a total of 8k-9k visas for EB2I (which means SO of approx 5k-6k) and still move into 2009 by the end of this FY.
Difficult to talk in terms of PD. I expect approx total of 8k-9k visas for EB2I in this FY. Following factors will decide the date movement.
1. Porting demand increase (there is no official number of this)
2. CO may decide different strategies
-- Consider that EB2I gets 9k total for this FY and CO decides that he is anyways going to use the next years allocation in Oct to Dec then he might advance dates considerably more than what demand-supply dictates. In that event dates might advance more.
-- CO might just stay conservative and wait till the very last minute and move the dates as late as possible. Therefore trying to stick as close to the statistics and just give buffer enough to ensure that there is no visa wastage.
I personally feel that it is difficult to guess the date movement accurately because a lot is left up to the CO to decide. IMO the dates will reach Mar 2009 (realistic) and anything beyond that is a bonus and should be welcomed.
Hi YT,
Wonderful analysis.
EB3 applicants with PD up to Dec 2004 are reporting RFE in trackitt, so most likely (and hopefully) EB3I moves at least to Dec 2004 in FY15 (within the next month or two). This would leave the remaining inventory in EB3I at 17K as of Oct 1st, 2015. This is also very much in line with your predictions several months ago.
Would you anticipate CO building inventory for EB3I in FY16 or will it be in FY17?
August Bulletin out : http://travel.state.gov/content/visa...gust-2015.html
No Movement for EB2I and EB3I 1 Jun 2004
Thanks for the heads up.
Also of note is that EB3 China retrogressed over 7 years from 01SEP11 to 01JUN04 (the same as EB3-India and EB3 Philippines(who were Unavailable in July)):
EB3-ROW and EB3 Mexico advance 3.5 months to 15JUL15.Quote:
D. CHINA-MAINLAND BORN EMPLOYMENT THIRD, AND THIRD OTHER WORKER VISA AVAILABILITY
There was an extremely large increase in applicant demand reported for consideration in the determination of the August cut-off dates. Therefore, it has been necessary to retrogress the Employment Third, and Third Other Worker cut-off dates to hold number use within the FY-2015 annual limit.
Every effort will be made to return those categories to the previously announced July cut-off dates as quickly as possible under the FY-2016 annual limits. Those limits will take effect October 1, 2015.
EB2 China advanced 2.5 months to 15DEC13.
Guru, how much time have they given to reply to the RFEs. Is it 12 weeks std for all including the EVL?.
My question in context of planning an India Trip and that gives me an Idea for how long to stay out.
Hey guys
I am trying to look at PERM data for some analysis. Basically I am interested in looking at number of PERMs filed by country's chargeability and cross-country chargeability: i.e. when the country of birth is not the same as country of citizenship. Is there anyway to get this data or generally data around PERM?
I thought this link was supposed to work but looks like its not working anymore
http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.g...rmancedata.cfm
OFLC included the information on both Country of Citizenship an Country of Birth for the first time in the Q2 FY2015 PERM disclosure figures. Technically it has been available in the ETA9089 information within the DOL LCR system.
I have the data for the first half FY2015 PERM Certifications. It should be reasonably accurate. I've only shown numbers for cases where there was a difference.
Birth Country shown below Country of Citizenship.
INDIA Citizenship
CHINA ------------ 2
PHILIPPINES ------ 3
ROW ------------ 156
CHINA Citizenship
ROW -------------- 3
MEXICO Citizenship
CHINA ------------ 1
ROW -------------- 8
PHILIPPINES Citizenship
ROW -------------- 1
ROW Citizenship
INDIA ---------- 208
CHINA ---------- 254
MEXICO ---------- 11
PHILIPPINES ----- 21
ROW ------------ 988 (i.e. Different Country of Birth, but still ROW)
Grand Total ----------- 1,656
Total Certifications - 36,373
Hope that helps you out.
I asked for EVL from corporate, they issued a standard 2 line EVL, with job title and salary.
Is it required to have job duties in it?
The HR dept have lost the job posting coz its been several years they have hired me.
Any suggestions on EVL format and contents.
Thanks
If Title is same as the labor title or same SOC code it should not matter. However if it does not match, you will have to provide job description to prove that your job is "same or similar" as per AC21.
The evl format in the link below should be a good one.
http://forums.immigration.com/thread...letter.210023/
thanks gcq
axecapone,
To answer your question, I noticed fairly early on that Permchecker.com was showing the Country of Birth in their data. OFLC was publishing Country of Citizenship.
When the OFLC Quarterly Data Disclosure was published, I always reconciled and combined the two data sources and was left with both Birth and Citizenship data for all Certified cases. It's then a trivial exercise to look at the number of cases where Bith and Citizenship Countries are different.
At various times, I have had to go through over a 1,000 9089 when there was a data gap. Usually this was caused when the DOL LCR didn't update for several days and Permchecker.com did not update their data after the LCR was finally updated.
Hopefully, OFLC will continue to publish the data required quarterly and I will not have to do that again.