2003 Consolidated Tracker ONLY (140/EAD/AP/FP/485)

[djGc007]

I too am waiting for my finger print notice. My Concurrent app date is August 2003. I got the I-140 approval in May 2004. No word on the FP notice though...

Also I applied for AP in June (RD June 15 2003) while the Vermont Processign dates for AP says that the date is August 15 2003, the online message for my EACno. still indicates that the app. is being worked upon

[nash9]

Finally my 485 approved.
PD: 3-7-2002
RD:3-27-2003
1stFP:5-21-2003
2ndFP:6-22-2003
I-140 approved:10-16-2003 (after RFE...check my prior posts)
485 approved: 8-16-2004.

Thanks all for keeping faith and good luck.

[minguva]

Finally my 485 approved.
PD: 3-7-2002
RD:3-27-2003
1stFP:5-21-2003
2ndFP:6-22-2003
I-140 approved:10-16-2003 (after RFE...check my prior posts)
485 approved: 8-16-2004.

Thanks all for keeping faith and good luck.

Congratulations...
That was a long long wait.....
At last you got that....
Hope we will get our thing soooooonn.....

[LongRoadToGC]

Hi folks,

This is one heck of a Monday. The first email in my mailbox was my I-140 approval. You guys are the best! Best of luck to everyone on these boards.

Some info about my application:
Home country: Pakistan
Education: BS in CS from USA
Experience before the application: 1 year
RFE: No
Company size: Over 20,000

Best Regards.

[looking4green]

Congrats LongRoadToGC!!
Is there anybody waiting for 140 approval with notification date in September.

[LegalFrustrated]

My I-140 has been apporved today.

-EB3
-Labor substitution
-May 5th 2003 !!!! (I-140 RD)
-Concurent filing (I-485 RD is June 16th 2003)
-EAD and Advance Parole has been approved TWICE till now
-Took Senator's HELP.

Any questions please let me know.
This needs to be updated in the TRACKER.

[LongRoadToGC]

Congrats LongRoadToGC!!
Is there anybody waiting for 140 approval with notification date in September.

Thanks looking4green. Check out the following thread for September filers:

Any September I-140 case not be approved?
Here is the link: http://www.immigrationportal.com/sho...=129980&page=1

[antropeter]

I-140 RFE response sent!!

Friends, my lawyer had sent the response for my I-140 RFE (Company's ability to pay, educational evaluation, my W-2 for 2003). Usually, how long it takes to get updated on their website that they received the response?

I will keep you all posted with the happenings.....

Good Luck,
A

[looking4green]

Thank you

Thanks looking4green. Check out the following thread for September filers:

Any September I-140 case not be approved?
Here is the link: http://www.immigrationportal.com/sho...=129980&page=1

[jack76]

Normally it takes 2 weeks to get updated..mine got updated in 10 days..
Best of luck

I-140 RFE response sent!!

Friends, my lawyer had sent the response for my I-140 RFE (Company's ability to pay, educational evaluation, my W-2 for 2003). Usually, how long it takes to get updated on their website that they received the response?

I will keep you all posted with the happenings.....

Good Luck,
A

[hrithikroshan11]

antropeter

How big is your company? Do you have a 4 year degree? Does the RFE make any sense or do you think it was a result of initiating a query on your application?

[vicky007]

My I-140 has been apporved today.

-EB3
-Labor substitution
-May 5th 2003 !!!! (I-140 RD)
-Concurent filing (I-485 RD is June 16th 2003)
-EAD and Advance Parole has been approved TWICE till now
-Took Senator's HELP.

Any questions please let me know.
This needs to be updated in the TRACKER.

Pl check your PM. I have sent you a message.

Regards.

[VaLabor_02]

Hey guys,

Any EB2 guys who have got any change in status or approvals...........looks like there has been no movement on EB2 processing dates for quite some time and I dont see any approvals posted here wither which may indicate otherwise.



???????

[LegalFrustrated]

Pl check your PM. I have sent you a message.

Regards.

Hi vicky007, I did not receive any email from you.

[vicky007]

Hi Legalfrustrated,

I sent it again.

Regards

[vivekjm]

Hi, Can anyone help me with suggestions in this situation ?

I applied for EAD on Nov 18, 2003. The web site status showed that the case has been approved on June 8, 2004 and the card has been mailed. But I didn't receive it. I waited for around 1.5 months and finally called INS on July 27. Explained my situation. The representative took my information and added it to the system. Then on Aug 21, i received the letter from the USCIS, stating as follows:

"Your employment authorization card was mailed on June 8, 2004 and has not been returned to this office. To receive a replacement card, you must file an application for Employment Authorization (I-765) with the proper filing fee and supporting documentation."

Is it not just a process of applying for a replacement card ? has anyone had this situation ?

Any way, Now I decided that I will apply for a card with I-765. But now I have moved to west-coast and I have already given the new address for my case numbers. Should I now apply from the California centre or I should still apply from the VSC ?

Thanks,
VJ

[LegalFrustrated]

Pl check your PM. I have sent you a message.

Regards.

I received a link to this website with the above message.
Why don't you post it here.
What is it about ?

[vicky007]

Legalfrustrated,

Did you get any LUD's on your Case bfore getting the approval notice?

What was your Exp for contacting the senator? How did it go??

Please give the details.

Regards.

[LegalFrustrated]

Legalfrustrated,

Did you get any LUD's on your Case bfore getting the approval notice?

What was your Exp for contacting the senator? How did it go??

Please give the details.

Regards.

--Yes, I did get LUD changed to the approved date immediately.
--My exp. with the senator has been effective.

--One more good news is that I got my FP notice today. My I-485 has been filed in June 2003(RD). This is the first FP notice.

[vicky007]

Hi Legalfrustrated,

All the Best with your I-485 Process.I wish you a speedy end to this entire Rigmarole.

You have already told you got an LUD Change immediately informing you about the approval. My Question though was did you have any LUD before you got the approval?

Regards.

[mailarvin]

Guys,

I have received FP notice scheduling FP on Sep 18th.
1. Nothing unusual except that I completed my FP1 in March 2004 i.e. less then 5 months ago.
2. There is no FP notice sent for my wife -May be it has been delayed by Mail Room/USPS.

I guess one the option is to wait for wife's FP notice till Sep 18th else go for FP with wife and see if they let her do the FP2.

Guru's any suggestion.

---------------------------------------------
RD 4/21/03
ND 4/30/03
I-140 -Approved in March 2004
FP1 -March 16th 2004
FP2 -Scheduled for Sep 18 2004

[VaLabor_02]

Hey mailarvin,

Is it EB2 or EB3???
Va

Guys,

I have received FP notice scheduling FP on Sep 18th.
1. Nothing unusual except that I completed my FP1 in March 2004 i.e. less then 5 months ago.
2. There is no FP notice sent for my wife -May be it has been delayed by Mail Room/USPS.

I guess one the option is to wait for wife's FP notice till Sep 18th else go for FP with wife and see if they let her do the FP2.

Guru's any suggestion.

---------------------------------------------
RD 4/21/03
ND 4/30/03
I-140 -Approved in March 2004
FP1 -March 16th 2004
FP2 -Scheduled for Sep 18 2004

[chanduare]

Hi Gurus,
Please advice me on this.I have filed my I140/I48/EAD concurrent on 11/07/2003 with my present employer to whom I am working with for past 4 years. Now my client is asking me to join their company or quit .So I want to use AC21 once my 140 is cleared.Now my lawyer is in process of replying for RFE on I140(Got RFE on july 27 2004).My client is very big company.

Here are my questions.
1)My client has diffrerent job titles like system architech and software engineer and sr programmer while my present employer filed my labour as programmer Analyst/System Analyst. I am doing same duties as specified in labour.Can I take a different tilte from my Client like 'System architect'?
2)Second is about my salary.My client is offering 20% hike in salary.
3)Can some body give me what I need to do to file AC21?

Thanks,
Chandu

I140/I485/EAD filed on 11/07/2003 EB3
EAD approved on 27th april 2004
RFE on 140 on 27th July.

[LegalFrustrated]

Hi Legalfrustrated,

All the Best with your I-485 Process.I wish you a speedy end to this entire Rigmarole.

You have already told you got an LUD Change immediately informing you about the approval. My Question though was did you have any LUD before you got the approval?

Regards.

Sorry about not being clear.

My Question though was did you have any LUD before you got the approval?
-- NO.
-- It only changed the same day I got the email from USCIS.

[LegalFrustrated]

Sorry about not being clear.

My Question though was did you have any LUD before you got the approval?
-- NO.
-- It only changed the same day I got the email from USCIS.

Sorry for the mix up.

Question though was : Did you have any LUD before you got the approval?
-- YES. (April 1st 2004) same for I-140 and I-485.
-- It changed the same day I got the email from USCIS for I-140.
-- There is no change for I-485 eventhough I got FP notice.

[goingcrazy]

Hey guys.. is it normal to get a 2nd FP notice. My first one was for March '04 and now I have received for Sep '04...

[nemessis]

That's crazy ... we are waiting for more than one year for FP1 and you're getting a redundant one ... it might be a mistake of their "automatic system" that sends FP ...

Hey guys.. is it normal to get a 2nd FP notice. My first one was for March '04 and now I have received for Sep '04...

[ETA-GC]

So, according to the 2003 tracker, we've seen 7 I-485 approvals out of about 400 cases that are being tracked so far. Most of those were from at least 2 months ago (June or earlier) -- there's been little activity since then.

I got pretty excited when we started seeing approvals for 2003 I-485 cases (up to March or even later), thinking maybe my 10/23/03 case might be handled within 6 months, but based on the 2003 tracker and on the majority of approval postings it looks like maybe things overall are stuck around August 2002 at this point (which corresponds with the official VSC date).

The scans that nemessis has been doing (http://www.immigrationportal.com/sho...918#post891918) show quite a few approvals so I'm wondering if maybe most of those are family based while the ones in the tracker are employment based?

Overall, the processing date for I-485's has moved from around 01/01/02 to 08/26/02 in about 5.5 months which is only slightly better than keeping pace (the backlog over that time went down by 40 days).

All this to say... I'm starting to think that there is still a long way to go -- at this point I'm guessing it will be at least 1 year before 10/23/03 cases are processed... (FP for those cases might take 3 months or longer)?

What do others think?

ETA

[rajudm]

Your thoughts are correct. With the current trend it would be atleast 18 months to 24 months range from I485 ND. Some of them who got approved in June ( about 13 to 15 months from I485 ND) were getting benefit of FO memo since they had done 1st FP long time back. I hope that October month shouldn't slow the pace further because new H1B processing has already been done for 40,000 cases.

We can only hope for the best

[ETA-GC]

I guess the one encouraging sign is that the VSC I-485 date moved 192 days in the last 56 days. This was after moving only 15 days in the previous 111 days (and before that I don't think it moved much at all for a long time but I don't have records going back past 03/04/04)...

If one was optimistic, 192/56 = roughly 3.4 days of cases processed per day so 01/01/03 cases might be handled in 38 days and a 10/23/03 case might be handled in 125 days (based on the VSC currently processing 08/26/04 cases) .

Of course, this assumes a lot but we should hopefully start to get a better idea once the people at the start of the 2003 tracker start to get processed (hopefully in 38 days ).

ETA