gcseeker,
IMHO, unless they have quarterly spillover planned already, what ever DOS/USCIS have in mind for EB2IC for FY2012, should happen in the next two VB. If not they can not hold on to 15JUL2007 for EB2IC for long.
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If USCIS and/or DOL are eager for BTM why not move the dates in one shot give people a 30 day window and then retrogress?
Benefits of moving dates in one shot
1. Get demand data at the start of year.
2. Less complaints/confusion and more clear way forward for visa year 2012.
3. USCIS used to this way.
Drawbacks
CO will not be able to screw your life :)
Veni,
I totally agree with you. I think it's a bit to early to jump on any conclusion but based on the trackitt trends for the first couple of days, there seems to be no indication of any quarterly spillover. So far, there are only 1 - 2 approvals and both seems to be older PDs (EB3->EB2 porting cases) which probably weren't approved last year because all the visas were used up. So, we might be back to the FB visa date trend where forward movement happens until Dec followed by retrogression in Jan bulletin.
druvraj - i (and many others on this forum) would've done a BTM like you mention below :) But we are at somebody else's mercy unfortunately. If you read carefully, the total is 100%. But as you can see the way I phrased it puts the probability of exactly 3 months movement at ZERO!
Thanks Veni. This augurs well for big movement then.
There is no reason then why we should limit ourselves to 3 months, just because the first intake was 3 months, or the FB intake comparably done was 3 months. FB is mostly CP, and DOS has more handle on its demand.
If its quarterly SO on their mind, then it would be 0 or minimal. I am not giving good chance to quarterly SO.
If its not quarterly SO on their mind, then the movement should be reaching end of 2007 at least either in one VB or two VB.
The early approval trend does not seem to be great on Trackitt either, there are EB2 ROW, EB1 and EB3 approvals, the EB2-I approvals are for PWMB's who filed in the previous months or older cases. No one in the range from Apr 15 to Jul 15th has been approved yet for EB2 I/C let’s wait and watch. Also it will be interesting to see the approval rates of EB2 ROW and EB1 this month.
yes, I agree. Last time CO said that he was planning to move PD to July in the last bulliten of FY 2011, but USCIS stopped him and claimed they found large number of old cases. I think maybe CO intends to move PD faster, but USCIS does not want him to do that. It's a battle.
Isn't 140/12 ~ 12K should be normal monthly workload for USCIS.. They are used to getting 100k applications on first day/week for H1Bs and issuing receipt notices to them.. I know it is little different but I think workload should not be much of concern.. (truly speaking I want them to do BTM for my own sake)..
Agree, sooner or later they have to do BTM for EB2IC, assuming similar to past couple of years SOFAD trend for this FY.
It would be better for agencies as well as for the applicants if they do it beginning of the FY as opposed to beginning of spillover season.
Yes agree, and I think we should be blamed for it. We should let USCIS alone and stop creating pressure throuh SRs and Senators, but then wait is so long for us that as soon as we see 'C' against our PD, we go crazy and goo-goo-gaga and just want to get GC asap.