EB2 Predictions (Rather Calculations) - 2011

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Originally Posted by TeddyKoochu

11K additional people became current by the Jul bulletin so there should have been a large number of approvals daily if demand and supply match if the supply (Numbers are less) we will see far fewer approvals that does not augur well.

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I agree with that, but isn't the window of 10 days quite restrictive because there seem to a number of steps involved in approvals from a purely logistical point of view since the system is not completely electronic, which probably preclude immediate approvals of 11K applications, assuming that they all arrived at the USCIS office on July 1st, no?
Also, was this phenomenon of large number of approvals observed prior to the July bulletin?

Edit: Duh, checked the Facts and Data section, and there were relatively large number of approvals in May and June (well, it is not hard to beat 0) as compared to July, and this is definitely a big negative for August.
:Clucthing at Straws: - Long weekend means that both USCIS and Trackitt members not diligently updating their status :p

Sorry this was in reply to victorian's question above. But Teddy and Q have explained it much better.

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Originally Posted by sandeep11

More approvals means that they have not yet met the demand (including the spillovers for this year), in other words there are still numbers available to be allocated. In this case the numbers calculated by Venni, Spector, Q and their analysis is close to being true.

If the approvals stop abruptly, it means that they ran out of the numbers or are close to running out. In this case the next VB we wouldn't see much movement.

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Originally Posted by victorian

I agree with that, but isn't the window of 10 days quite restrictive because there seem to a number of steps involved in approvals from a purely logistical point of view since the system is not completely electronic, which probably preclude immediate approvals of 11K applications, assuming that they all arrived at the USCIS office on July 1st, no?
Also, was this phenomenon of large number of approvals observed prior to the July bulletin?

Edit: Duh, checked the Facts and Data section, and there were relatively large number of approvals in May and June (well, it is not hard to beat 0) as compared to July, and this is definitely a big negative for August.
:Clucthing at Straws: - Long weekend means that both USCIS and Trackitt members not diligently updating their status :p

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victorian,

No need to be so hard on yourself! :)

The other point is that the 11k additional people who became current because of the July bulletin refers to previous pre-adjudicated I-485s already in USCIS possession.

New applications as a result of becoming Current for the first time, as you rightly pointed out, do not have time to be approved this FY.

http://travel.state.gov/visa/bulleti...etin_1360.html

vb site just got updated now with this message:

Upcoming month's visa bulletin: August 2011 (Coming Soon)


hoping to get the VB out by this friday

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Originally Posted by Spectator

victorian,

No need to be so hard on yourself! :)

The other point is that the 11k additional people who became current because of the July bulletin refers to previous pre-adjudicated I-485s already in USCIS possession.

New applications as a result of becoming Current for the first time, as you rightly pointed out, do not have time to be approved this FY.

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This whole argument is based on the assumption that the cases current in July are pre-adjudicated. How do we know this for sure? May be USCIS only pre-adjudicated cases up to Oct 2006 and not the later ones. I might be totally wrong but just trying to think of alternate explanations that might explain what we are seeing.

USCIS had 4 years to preadjudicate. Secondly by their own admission they have preadj'd majority of cases.

I think lets not panic .... just wait and watch. Not having trackitt showup anything is not any cause of worry as yet.

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Originally Posted by saky007

This whole argument is based on the assumption that the cases current in July are pre-adjudicated. How do we know this for sure? May be USCIS only pre-adjudicated cases up to Oct 2006 and not the later ones. I might be totally wrong but just trying to think of alternate explanations that might explain what we are seeing.

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Originally Posted by neospeed

http://travel.state.gov/visa/bulleti...etin_1360.html

vb site just got updated now with this message:

Upcoming month's visa bulletin: August 2011 (Coming Soon)


hoping to get the VB out by this friday

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dude this is great news. seems like they are officially calling it open season now. And I think by this time they already know what bulletin they are going to release.

Two optional things may occur before friday.
- DOS demand data may or may not be updated
- Mumbai consulate website may or may not be updated tomorrow night

I think this bulletin is very critical and it will surely have notes, unlike last time.

I will always remember these times I shared with all of you guys, you all are almost like my online family.

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Originally Posted by saky007

This whole argument is based on the assumption that the cases current in July are pre-adjudicated. How do we know this for sure? May be USCIS only pre-adjudicated cases up to Oct 2006 and not the later ones. I might be totally wrong but just trying to think of alternate explanations that might explain what we are seeing.

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Mine is in June 2007, preadjudicated in Feb 2009. I know becos i attended interview at local uscis office. So i think pretty much all the cases applied during JUly 07 fiasco are preadjudicated

http://www.trackitt.com/usa-discussi...-got-fp-notice

this person got a second FP notice postmarked on July 1st, today in mail, no change in his online status This is after he got current. his PD is Jan 2007.

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Originally Posted by saky007

This whole argument is based on the assumption that the cases current in July are pre-adjudicated. How do we know this for sure? May be USCIS only pre-adjudicated cases up to Oct 2006 and not the later ones. I might be totally wrong but just trying to think of alternate explanations that might explain what we are seeing.

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saky,

That is a very good question.

The simple answer would be that we can never know for sure.

As Q said, they have had a long time to adjudicate them.

More telling I think is that the USCIS numbers in the Inventory for EB2-IC have always matched the Demand Data figures very well.

Since EB2 has very low CP demand, if there were significant numbers not pre-adjudicated by USCIS, we might expect the DOS figures to be lower than the USCIS figures.

Since we don't see that, we can perhaps conclude that virtually all EB2-IC cases are indeed pre-adjudicated.

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Originally Posted by qesehmk

USCIS had 4 years to preadjudicate. Secondly by their own admission they have preadj'd majority of cases.

I think lets not panic .... just wait and watch. Not having trackitt showup anything is not any cause of worry as yet.

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Seeing this great thread, I feel obliged to throw in a theory as well :)

The reason why we don't see any approvals this week in July: I guess USCIS might be doing an internal audit to supply the required numbers to DoS for setting up the date for August visa bulletin. They may have put a freeze on adjudicating visa petitions until they get a complete picture of the remaining visa applications filed during July 2007 fiasco. Once they are able to audit, and send the required information to DoS, they'll lift the moratorium and start adjudicating again.

Just my 2 cents....

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Originally Posted by saky007

This whole argument is based on the assumption that the cases current in July are pre-adjudicated. How do we know this for sure? May be USCIS only pre-adjudicated cases up to Oct 2006 and not the later ones. I might be totally wrong but just trying to think of alternate explanations that might explain what we are seeing.

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Originally Posted by Spectator

saky,

That is a very good question.

The simple answer would be that we can never know for sure.

As Q said, they have had a long time to adjudicate them.

More telling I think is that the USCIS numbers in the Inventory for EB2-IC have always matched the Demand Data figures very well.

Since EB2 has very low CP demand, if there were significant numbers not pre-adjudicated by USCIS, we might expect the DOS figures to be lower than the USCIS figures.

Since we don't see that, we can perhaps conclude that virtually all EB2-IC cases are indeed pre-adjudicated.

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In addition, we can see the no. of receipts, pre-adjudicated and pending AOS (include all I-485) applications from USCIS dashboard!

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Originally Posted by pg_at_q

Seeing this great thread, I feel obliged to throw in a theory as well :)

The reason why we don't see any approvals this week in July: I guess USCIS might be doing an internal audit to supply the required numbers to DoS for setting up the date for August visa bulletin. They may have put a freeze on adjudicating visa petitions until they get a complete picture of the remaining visa applications filed during July 2007 fiasco. Once they are able to audit, and send the required information to DoS, they'll lift the moratorium and start adjudicating again.

Just my 2 cents....

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Based on the Facts and Data on hand we are not expecting very many PWMB until 08MAR2007. So I think DOS should have that info already.
As we have been observing, it will take few days before folks update their cases on trackitt or other sources.

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Originally Posted by veni001

Based on the Facts and Data on hand we are not expecting very many PWMB until 08MAR2007. So I think DOS should have that info already.
As we have been observing, it will take few days before folks update their cases on trackitt or other sources.

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Veni, agree with you on the PWMB, however by now considering that 11K folks are current we should have seen anywhere from 25-50 approvals on Trackitt we don't see any yet. Lets wait till Friday looks like the VB itself will come by then and answer all questions.

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Originally Posted by pg_at_q

Seeing this great thread, I feel obliged to throw in a theory as well :)

The reason why we don't see any approvals this week in July: I guess USCIS might be doing an internal audit to supply the required numbers to DoS for setting up the date for August visa bulletin. They may have put a freeze on adjudicating visa petitions until they get a complete picture of the remaining visa applications filed during July 2007 fiasco. Once they are able to audit, and send the required information to DoS, they'll lift the moratorium and start adjudicating again.

Just my 2 cents....

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In my opinion and experience with government kinda babus(US or India), they never decide so late. Whatever happens next VB has been decided since mid of last month.

atlperm1 user on trackitt , this guy just updated, he got I-485 approved on July 1st. PD was 7th Nov 2006

Hopefully we all get to hear the good news and it jumps over to 2008. Such a relief and peace of mind for so many people. Too Optimistic I know but atleast the thought make me happy.

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Originally Posted by nishant2200

dude this is great news. seems like they are officially calling it open season now. And I think by this time they already know what bulletin they are going to release.

Two optional things may occur before friday.
- DOS demand data may or may not be updated
- Mumbai consulate website may or may not be updated tomorrow night

I think this bulletin is very critical and it will surely have notes, unlike last time.

I will always remember these times I shared with all of you guys, you all are almost like my online family.

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Originally Posted by nishant2200

atlperm1 user on trackitt , this guy just updated, he got I-485 approved on July 1st. PD was 7th Nov 2006

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Finally this is good news, I hope more people update their cases. Hopefully more people will get notifications today evening / tomorrow morning and post.

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Originally Posted by TeddyKoochu

Veni, agree with you on the PWMB, however by now considering that 11K folks are current we should have seen anywhere from 25-50 approvals on Trackitt we don't see any yet. Lets wait till Friday looks like the VB itself will come by then and answer all questions.

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Teddy,
No of approvals reported on trackitt also depend on the volume of cases registered for that period (current Visa Bulletin).
I assume(did not check) the volumes on trackitt for different periods may not be proportional!

Do any of you have any information on how numbers were wasted last year??

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Originally Posted by sandeep11

Do any of you have any information on how numbers were wasted last year??

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I don't think any EB VISA number(s) wastage in FY 2010!

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Originally Posted by sandeep11

Do any of you have any information on how numbers were wasted last year??

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see
http://www.travel.state.gov/visa/sta...tics_5240.html

in that, click on link:
Immigrant Visas Issued and Adjustments of Status Subject to Numerical Limitations (by Foreign State Chargeability): Fiscal Year 2010

You will see no visas were wasted, in fact we got a few from FB.

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Originally Posted by sandeep11

Do any of you have any information on how numbers were wasted last year??

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sandeep,,

I'm not entirely sure what your question means.

The limit for EB was 150,657 visas in FY2010.
DOS used 150,262 visas in EB in FY2010.

So, DOS failed to use 395 or 0.26% of the available visas.

EB3 fell short of the 43,088 allocation by 657 visas or 1.52%

The only group who failed to receive their proper allocation was EB3-ROW, as all other groups in EB3 exceeded the 7% limit.

You can also find the figures for last year here http://www.qesehmk.org/forums/showth...CREDIT-to-VENI where they are split up into the various Countries / Groups.

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Originally Posted by veni001

Teddy,
No of approvals reported on trackitt also depend on the volume of cases registered for that period (current Visa Bulletin).
I assume(did not check) the volumes on trackitt for different periods may not be proportional!

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Country of Chargeability - India
Category - EB2
Status - Pending
PD Range Oct 2006 to Feb 2007 to correlate to 15th Oct 2006 to 08 - Mar 2007
The number of cases obtained is 373.
Now this is the 4th business day of the month we do know that mostly the approvals are loaded early in the month but lets give the benefit of doubt and consider it as only 2 business days and assuming 20% people don't update their profiles since its early days. This gives 2/20*80/100*373 = 29.84 ~ 30. I distinctly remember last year in July only 7K folks were current but by the end of the first day itself page 1 on Trackitt which is 50 cases was almost full. One interesting thing is besides EB2-I no other category is also posting approvals. Even in the last 2 months when far fewer people have been current we have seen more approvals in the earlier days. Now when I compare last years counts on Trackitt those current in Jul 2010 were from Feb 2005 to Sep 2005 this gives 734 cases this would mean that there has been a pretty steep fall in those who posted their cases. I also noted that some people just add their cases when they are approved. So I believe that we should reduce the expected approvals on Trackitt to 15 only (50%). Each posted approval will carry more value this year than last year because more people are current and lesser representation.

Hey Guys,

I had a question. Have you heard of any denials for people who filed in July 2007 but who were not current after that? I am kind of new to this and haven't seen any. Assuming they are preadjudicated there must have been 10-15% denials right?

That was my previous question a few pages back. Does everybody who is preadjudicated mean they are approved? If USCIS cannot approve someone without the PD being current can they deny? I am just trying to figure out if

Demand data published = visas that will be used for people who filed in July 07.

Thanks Nishant/Spector for pointing me to the right links.

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Originally Posted by Spectator

sandeep,,

I'm not entirely sure what your question means.

The limit for EB was 150,657 visas in FY2010.
DOS used 150,262 visas in EB in FY2010.

So, DOS failed to use 395 or 0.26% of the available visas.

EB3 fell short of the 43,088 allocation by 657 visas or 1.52%

The only group who failed to receive their proper allocation was EB3-ROW, as all other groups in EB3 exceeded the 7% limit.

You can also find the figures for last year here http://www.qesehmk.org/forums/showth...CREDIT-to-VENI where they are split up into the various Countries / Groups.

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Originally Posted by qesehmk

Friends,

So finally our source had a discussion with CO in Visa Office.

Here is what CO had to say - "There will be significant movement in July. If people were happy with the June movement, they will be happier with the movement in July."

I guess it means the dates will definitely move past Jan 07.

Good luck everybody! And a BIG thanks to our source! He has asked all of us to "pray" for him since he is current and is expecting a GC anytime now. My best wishes to him!!

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Any breaking news coming this month?

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Originally Posted by Gclongwait

Hey Guys,

I had a question. Have you heard of any denials for people who filed in July 2007 but who were not current after that? I am kind of new to this and haven't seen any. Assuming they are preadjudicated there must have been 10-15% denials right?

That was my previous question a few pages back. Does everybody who is preadjudicated mean they are approved? If USCIS cannot approve someone without the PD being current can they deny? I am just trying to figure out if

Demand data published = visas that will be used for people who filed in July 07.

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Why do you think that there will be 10 - 15% denials? One scenario is that I485 will be denied if the underlying I140 get denied but I am not sure how much denials will happen for approved I140s. Another probable reason for denial that I can think of is USCIS issues a RFE on employment letter and the candidate is unable to provide the same. I don't think everybody who are pre-adjudicated will be approved right away; I have seen in trackitt that pre-adjudicated cases have received RFEs on employment letters, pay stubs, etc. I think USCIS can still deny one's application irrespective of whether the PD is current or not but I don't know how proactively this has been done.

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Originally Posted by TeddyKoochu

Country of Chargeability - India
Category - EB2
Status - Pending
PD Range Oct 2006 to Feb 2007 to correlate to 15th Oct 2006 to 08 - Mar 2007
The number of cases obtained is 373.
Now this is the 4th business day of the month we do know that mostly the approvals are loaded early in the month but lets give the benefit of doubt and consider it as only 2 business days and assuming 20% people don't update their profiles since its early days. This gives 2/20*80/100*373 = 29.84 ~ 30. I distinctly remember last year in July only 7K folks were current but by the end of the first day itself page 1 on Trackitt which is 50 cases was almost full. One interesting thing is besides EB2-I no other category is also posting approvals. Even in the last 2 months when far fewer people have been current we have seen more approvals in the earlier days. Now when I compare last years counts on Trackitt those current in Jul 2010 were from Feb 2005 to Sep 2005 this gives 734 cases this would mean that there has been a pretty steep fall in those who posted their cases. I also noted that some people just add their cases when they are approved. So I believe that we should reduce the expected approvals on Trackitt to 15 only (50%). Each posted approval will carry more value this year than last year because more people are current and lesser representation.

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Teddy,
Agree, that is why we need to be little cautious with trackitt updates. I would wait couple more days (my be August VB is out by then, and no need to look :)!) to translate approvals into numbers.

Based on past trends, usually the bulletin dates for August and September have advanced much much rapidly then the June/July months bulletin in a fiscal year

Check out the last 2 pages

http://www.travel.state.gov/pdf/EmploymentIndia.pdf

for FY-2008, 2009, and 2010 to see the rapid advance in Aug/Sept bulletins. My optimistic side is thumping loudly that there's no reason DoS will not follow the same trend this FY :)

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Originally Posted by pg_at_q

Based on past trends, usually the bulletin dates for August and September have advanced much much rapidly then the June/July months bulletin in a fiscal year

Check out the last 2 pages

http://www.travel.state.gov/pdf/EmploymentIndia.pdf

for FY-2008, 2009, and 2010 to see the rapid advance in Aug/Sept bulletins. My optimistic side is thumping loudly that there's no reason DoS will not follow the same trend this FY :)

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pg_at_q,
When referring to previous years PD progression to predict this year movement, we need consider few other things .....

1. FY2011 is the first year (in recent past) we saw Spillover VISAs being applied to EB2 before Q4.
2. Spillover available for prior years is different from what we are predicting for FY2011.
3. Demand (i485) for prior years cutoff dates is different from this year. (example PD2005 got minimal AOS application)

Trying to put in some positive thinking on. I know I can fall flat on my face tomorrow, but putting out two thoughts.

USCIS knows the upcoming bulletin dates or knows that they are going to be advanced significantly, and that their actions in the first few days which in turn may impact the DOS demand data will have no bearing on the bulletin, and hence there is no pressure to crank the visas to reduce demand. Just like last time, no demand data will be even published.

Second, the 485s from this last few months of the fiasco period, would technically be the last ones to be pre-adjudicated, and seems that they may not all been "perfectly" pre-adjudicated, or levels of adjudication became stricter by the time they got to it, and they are sitting on them, and now, issuing RFEs for medicals, birth certificates, or EVLs, FP notices, etc. Also I think there was a lot of 485s in the last bulletin itself to do, and they maybe even a bit backlogged. Pre-adjudication may not always mean just putting a visa number, I am sure, it goes through a second "quick" review and checklist again. And now since USCIS-DOS communication for both of these above, that's why we see the NVC notices, as a last ditch effort to maximize visa usage for EB2I/C before they can give up and go to EB3.

Now if they are doing NVC for the reason above, then they need to advance this upcoming bulletin itself, so that NVC can grab those visa numbers in advance, schedule the interviews in September first week, and do it's quota, and return whatever was not used. Then in remaining part of September, they can spillover unused to EB3 if we get there.

Something is surely cooking, we can only try to guess. Sometimes, biased due to our own PDs, but trying to put some positive thoughts so that can live one more day until tomorrow.

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Originally Posted by nishant2200

Trying to put in some positive thinking on. I know I can fall flat on my face tomorrow, but putting out two thoughts.

USCIS knows the upcoming bulletin dates or knows that they are going to be advanced significantly, and that their actions in the first few days which in turn may impact the DOS demand data will have no bearing on the bulletin, and hence there is no pressure to crank the visas to reduce demand. Just like last time, no demand data will be even published.

Second, the 485s from this last few months of the fiasco period, would technically be the last ones to be pre-adjudicated, and seems that they may not all been "perfectly" pre-adjudicated, or levels of adjudication became stricter by the time they got to it, and they are sitting on them, and now, issuing RFEs for medicals, birth certificates, or EVLs, FP notices, etc. Also I think there was a lot of 485s in the last bulletin itself to do, and they maybe even a bit backlogged. Pre-adjudication may not always mean just putting a visa number, I am sure, it goes through a second "quick" review and checklist again. And now since USCIS-DOS communication for both of these above, that's why we see the NVC notices, as a last ditch effort to maximize visa usage for EB2I/C before they can give up and go to EB3.

Now if they are doing NVC for the reason above, then they need to advance this upcoming bulletin itself, so that NVC can grab those visa numbers in advance, schedule the interviews in September first week, and do it's quota, and return whatever was not used. Then in remaining part of September, they can spillover unused to EB3 if we get there.

Something is surely cooking, we can only try to guess. Sometimes, biased due to our own PDs, but trying to put some positive thoughts so that can live one more day until tomorrow.

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+1 ...........

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Originally Posted by nishant2200

...then they need to advance this upcoming bulletin itself, so that NVC can grab those visa numbers in advance, schedule the interviews in September first week, and do it's quota, and return whatever was not used. Then in remaining part of September, they can spillover unused to EB3 if we get there.

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One can only wish INS was that efficient. Anyhow, D day is near now. We will know by today night or tomorrow. Fortunately Test match with West Indies can help kill time.

Spec, what does IBIS check and EVL mean? Thanks!

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Originally Posted by veni001

Teddy,
Agree, that is why we need to be little cautious with trackitt updates. I would wait couple more days (my be August VB is out by then, and no need to look :)!) to translate approvals into numbers.

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Veni, I completely agree with you in principal, since the density on Trackitt is less right now however more people are current from the corresponding period so each number is worth more. What is worrying is that there are very few approvals on all forums. There have been reports to suggest that people have been getting their approval information from attorneys or by calling the service centers and some are getting the card in the mail. You are right the Aug bulletin will come sooner and answer all questions. USCIS definitely has the full month to close all cases let’s wait and watch. All our calculations also indicate that there are numbers left and the way to go is forward.

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Originally Posted by nishant2200

Trying to put in some positive thinking on. I know I can fall flat on my face tomorrow, but putting out two thoughts.

USCIS knows the upcoming bulletin dates or knows that they are going to be advanced significantly, and that their actions in the first few days which in turn may impact the DOS demand data will have no bearing on the bulletin, and hence there is no pressure to crank the visas to reduce demand. Just like last time, no demand data will be even published.

Second, the 485s from this last few months of the fiasco period, would technically be the last ones to be pre-adjudicated, and seems that they may not all been "perfectly" pre-adjudicated, or levels of adjudication became stricter by the time they got to it, and they are sitting on them, and now, issuing RFEs for medicals, birth certificates, or EVLs, FP notices, etc. Also I think there was a lot of 485s in the last bulletin itself to do, and they maybe even a bit backlogged. Pre-adjudication may not always mean just putting a visa number, I am sure, it goes through a second "quick" review and checklist again. And now since USCIS-DOS communication for both of these above, that's why we see the NVC notices, as a last ditch effort to maximize visa usage for EB2I/C before they can give up and go to EB3.

Now if they are doing NVC for the reason above, then they need to advance this upcoming bulletin itself, so that NVC can grab those visa numbers in advance, schedule the interviews in September first week, and do it's quota, and return whatever was not used. Then in remaining part of September, they can spillover unused to EB3 if we get there.

Something is surely cooking, we can only try to guess. Sometimes, biased due to our own PDs, but trying to put some positive thoughts so that can live one more day until tomorrow.

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Nishant, nice perspective. I agree with you that approving the preadjudicated cases is probably not a push of a button they are probably doing a high level review that explains why people are getting RFE's and FP requests. The NVC fee requests are a shining positive in the whole thing that is what gives real hope that there will be fresh intake for the next year. Other than that as you say I agree completely it’s really wait and watch and hope for the best. All our calculations also indicate that there are numbers left and the way to go is forward.

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Originally Posted by Monica12

Spec, what does IBIS check and EVL mean? Thanks!

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IBIS = Interagency Border Inspection Services (the result must be not more than 90 days old to approve the I-485 application)

EVL = Employment Verification Letter

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Originally Posted by Spectator

IBIS = Interagency Border Inspection Services (the result must be not more than 90 days old to approve the I-485 application)

EVL = Employment Verification Letter

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Spec, is Background and Name check already completed for the pre-adjudicated applicants? or is this part of the IBIS check? Wondering because these probably take a long time and therefore, delay the process for the people who are current.

07/07/2011: Interesting USCIS Idea on the Horizon to Make a Rule to Allow EAD to H-4 Spouses of H-1B Professionals Working Under AC 21 Sections 104(c) or 106(a)
This is from http://www.immigration-law.com/Canada.html

The USCIS is considering to initiate a proposed rule next March 2012 to extend the availability of EAD to H-4 dependent spouses of principal H-1B nonimmigrants who have begun the process of seeking lawful permanent resident (LPR) status through employment and have extended their authorized period of admission or "stay" in the U.S. under section 104(c) or 106(a) of AC 21 (Public Law 106-313). Apparently this concept is conceived to allow the eligible class of H-4 dependent spouses to work and thereby encourage professionals with high demand skills to remain in the country and help spur the innovation and growth of U.S. companies, and thus allow the United States to remain a world leader in high technology. Very stimulating idea! This may be perceived as an administrative fix of the broken employment-based immigration system. It will certainly help to stop ongoing reverse exodus of these talented foreign professionals, particularly from California, to their home countries. We will watch how far and how fast this concept will move ahead. Please stay tuned to this website for development of this news.