Where did the 30% come from? And don't say I made it up.
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Thanks Spec.
Is it possible to arrive at the porting figure from the PERM data. For eg, when someone ports, I guess they apply for a new PERM and I-140. So a new PERM certified with a PD of 2008 can be easily assumed to be an EB2. If that's the case porting numbers seem extremely low. I guess I must be missing something. Or is it the case that the porters dont have old PD till they interfile? In that case what are the old PDs? (Are they audit cases just being approved?)
I think those are the audit cases. Until interfiled (which happens at the new EB2 140 stage), USCIS has no way to know whether it is a porting case or not (I shouldn't say no way, atleast USCIS can assume whether those are porting cases or not with the records they have. But they don't and they shouldn't for several reasons - not all second perm is a porting case - it could be due to issues with previous perm/employer and also due to ignorance - some people weren't kept cognizant of the fact that they have an approved/valid I-140, etc by their employers). Even after interfiling, USCIS has no obligation to pre-adjudicate the corresponding I-485 (if filed already), thats why we are seeing people in the forums, talking about calling the L2 and checking whether their cases are pre-adjudicated or not.
Spec and other gurus - Please correct me if I'm wrong...
Q - I'm assuming this is the pessimistic scenario and things shouldnt get any worse than this......right???
My personal view on the situation is that given the lack of published data on porting for WW and I...the CO will get away with what he wants to do....he makes it a point to make it (whatever he says) happen at the end of the day....so whatever he says over the next few months in meetings with AILA will happen.......if my memory doesnt beat me...he has mentioned end of 2007 but that was some months ago...lets see if he improves on that.
Natvyas - Based on what we know now - I think Apr 2008 would be pessimistic yes. I guess I am reasonably confident about overall sofad being around 22K. However that's not including porting. The porting is going to be the dark horse here. So if porting is 6-7K ... we are looking at Apr 2008. At less SOFAD and slight upside from either EB1 or EB4 or EB5 we can look at July 2008. Beyond July 2008 this year would be difficult for approval (but the dates can always move beyond what can be approved).
to Calculate the ROW-MP demand for the year, does this approach look okay:
4343 is the PERM approved in first quarter
Hence for 3 quarters = 13029 (those filed in last quarter wont be processed in time)
Actual demand = 13029 times 2 = 26058
Carried over from FY2012 = 7000
Total Demand (barring porting) = 33000
Porting = 6000
Total Demand = 39000
natvyas,
Even though I agree with your final figure (not necessarily how you arrived at it), I wouldn't even get that complicated. DOL only processed about 2 months worth of PERM in Q1 2013. I suspect they'll catch up over the year.
The underlying monthly PERM approvals hasn't changed that much.
Last year, 9 months produced 25k approvals in EB2-WW. Prorated that is about 33k for a full year.
For FY2013, 33 + 8 = 41k which is about what EB2-WW have as an allocation with the extra FB visas (39k).
With the error margins, it's just easier to say EB2-WW will use their allocation and provide no Fall Across to EB2-I.
There are headwinds and tailwinds around that calculation, so it is a good compromise IMO.
If you want to look in more detail, you probably need to split out Mexico, Philippines and ROW and look at them individually, because they all behave differently. e.g. Philippines is likely to have higher Schedule A and CP while ROW is likely to have higher NIW cases.
FY2012 may have an unusually high number of EB2-WW. A lot of folks rushed to apply their I-485. There certainly was a spike in I-485s in June if you look at trackitt. Then there wasn't a massive flood in November once dates were C again, which is what I expected. (The USCIS dashboard numbers barely changed from baseline). I think WW will consume about 32K only. The long term trend is for 2K/month. I don't believe porting is nearly as high as has been reported.
justvisiting,
All those I-485 submitted in June 2012 will be approved in FY2013, as Cut Off Dates didn't return to Current until November 2012. There were 171 Trackitt EB2-ROW cases submitted in June 2012. Of those, 135 have now been approved and 36 still remain.
Actually, there was a spike in November 2012. Trackitt has 140 EB2-ROW applications submitted in November 2012, compared to 29 in October 2012. December 2012 shows 55 EB2-ROW applications submitted to date.
My analysis of the dashboard figures suggests the November EB2-WW numbers were fairly high.
Around 50 seems to be a normal Trackitt monthly EB2-ROW number over the last 2.5 years.
Im a newbie to this forum. I see many calculations based on trackitt perm / 140 trackers and hence would like to know if it adequately conveys visa demand. Out of 5 folks that I personally know of with priority dates in 2008, except me no one has their case in trackitt. Same in EB2 ROW (2 of them who got their GC in less than a year, but have no idea about trackitt). I understand that we have to work with what we have and make assumptions. Having said that would all hope for dates to go somewhere into late 2008 or 2009.
seattlet - welcome to forum. The short answer to your question is "Statistics". Most of the people who use trackitt date or any other data - normalize the numbers there with actuals in the past. e.g. in the past trackitt used to have 1:26 ratio of EB2IC folks. In other words 1 out of 26 people used to register on trackitt. So that's who people would do with any other source of data.
Spec..if there won't be any fall-across to EB2I from Eb2 WW then in that case how we are predicting Eb2I approvals going into early 2008? Shouldn't there be no movement in that scenario ( I hope that's not the case)? Also to make things worse we are speculating that Eb1 might consume all Eb4 and Eb5 leftovers...what am I missing?
SmileBaba,
Currently I see EB2-I receiving about 17k total visas, made up of their initial allocation and the rest being Fall Down from EB4, EB5 and EB1.
That is enough to move to April 2008 even if 100% of known cases were approved (with an allowance for porting).
I agree those June cases won't be approved till this FY. I expected a higher number still from November, but let's say that the applications tripled, then there wouyld have been 6000 receipts in Nov. That's ony 4K above baseline. Plus 2K "extra" for June 2012. That totals about 6K more EB2-WW. I looked at the EB2-WW monthy average a while back, but a conservative estimate is 2K approvals per month as a long term trend. That would mean "normal" is about 24K. Add the "extra" 6K and then 2K for porters and that's how I reached 32K.
justvisiting,
I think the underlying number of EB2-WW applications in November was at least 6k.
Your "conservative" average is extremely conservative.
EB2-WW approvals in the last few years have been:
FY2009 - 32,865 - Average 2,739 / month
FY2010 - 27,406 - Average 2,284 / month
FY2011 - 34,550 - Average 2,879 / month
FY2012 - 25,009 - Average 2,779 / month over 9 months
FY2010 appears to be the odd year out, otherwise the average is nearer 33k.
I don't believe the "extra" is as low as 6k.
On Trackitt, EB2-P already has as many approvals as last year, EB2-ROW has reached 90% and will reach the FY2012 level by the end of March. That is consistent with catching up the missing 3 months by the end of March. If approvals then return to a normal level for the second half of the year there will be 15 months of approvals in 12 months. The overall monthly average (for 15 months worth) only needs to be 2,600 to use the EB2-WW full allocation of ~39,000. 14,000 over 6 months is only 2,333 per month.
It's such a frustrating to wait for a thing whose timelines are not known :(. If I don't get at least EAD this year, I will leave this country.
Sorry guys trying to take out my frustration via this form.
whats your PD? chances are 0 to move forward if your PD is beyond May 1st,2010. So "packup". Just kidding. its a rollercoaster so you never know whats in CO's mind. he moves dates on his own discrete(He don't see backlogs).
Thanks gkjppp.
My priority date is Dec'07. Though I am very optimistic based on detailed analysis and discussion on this form but that will make more worse If I get missed again this year and again have to wait another year :(
Thanks vizcard.
Do we know when is th next demand data will be published or any other action/event/stats by USCIS that will further put some light on our prediction?
This calendar - CLICK HERE - on this site lists immigration events approximately. I and other moderators will keep adding events as time permits.
Wow. Great. Thanks
It all depends when the Spill over gets released. If released only in the last few months, the possibiity of GC is slim as the process of I-485 application/FP etc. will take certain time during which the dates may retrogress again.
EAD for sure. But 50%-50% GC for new I-485's in this year if the dates gets delayed beyond July - IMHO
Hey All
I have a question for the GURUS here.
Lets assume we get 18K visas to EB2I. And lets say 3k is used by porting between Sept'02-Sept'04, which leaves with 15K. Now looking at Demand Data we have 7.3K until Dec07, and around 8K till End of June 08. So would the Dates be moved till June 2008?
Or Consider/assume that there might be around 4K Porting between (Sept 04-Jun 08) - And move the dates to End of Mar 08 (to accomodate for that 4K porting and deduct that 4K from June 08 to MAr 08).
please share your thoughts on this process of moving dates.
thanks
SeekingGC2013,
Using your figures, you are correct that dates would move to the end of March 2008.
In reality, 100% of cases do not get approved, even though they are Current and potentially other cases get added to the Demand that we know nothing about.
Both affect where the Cut Off Date will move to.
No.
The cases can't be shown in the DD because they are waiting for their PD to become Current for the conversion to an EB2 case to take place.
If they are approved while their PD is Current, they will not show in the Demand Data because a visa is immediately available.
All you would ever see are those that "miss the boat" after dates retrogress again and become pre-adjudicated.
After about May 2007, most porters will not have an I-485 pending under EB3 and will have to file one from scratch. They will likely "miss the boat" due to I-485 processing times.
Before that, those with an already pending I-485 under EB3 are as pre-adjudicated as those with one pending under EB2 IMO. The process of actual conversion to an EB2 basis and ordering a visa is a matter of minutes, assuming all else is good. The have a slightly higher chance of being issued an RFE, if one hasn't been sent fairly recently, but even the non-porting cases may have last been issued one a year ago by the time the dates become Current again.
Hi Spectator, I need your expert opinion on a post by Matt on Trackitt, eatimating porting count. Please see below
"As promised yesterday, I am providing the numbers behind my estimate of additional 5000 portings till year end.
There is roughly 1500 portings in the first Quarter as per USICS inventory comparison.This is porting from EB3I to EB2I before July/Aug 2007. And roughly all portings until January are already in the demand data of March 2013. There are two more full quarters of portings which can come into this years demand. and possibly one partial quarter
For Quarter two - 2000 + For Quarter three 2000 and partial quarter 1000. So it totals 5000. I have already added 250 additional in each quarter to accomodate July 2007 to June 2008.
I was intially trying to breakup labor data. To put it together in a small paragraph is too difficult.
The demand data of this month would give more indicators.."
Do you agree on this? Again I am not questioning anyone's judgement and have full respect for that. Just want to share with experts to get realistic figure.
As it was mentioned by Spectator that porting is 100 per month per FY. Then total porting between July 2007 and June 2008 will be 1200 in FY 2013. And some more will need to be added (600) for porting done in FY12 (between April 12-Sep12). Between Sep 2004 and July 2007 porting number will be around 3500-3700.
And in my humble opinion some of them (~30%) will already be part of demand data published in Feb 13. That is how demand data has increased from 5800 (Nov 13) to 7300 (Feb13).
No.
I used 100 as an example in this post.
I did not say what I thought it was (deliberately). I also said it would be my last comment on the subject.