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05/07/2004: 05/07/2004: New 485 Filing and Processing Agenda
USCIS has yet to announce the backlog reduction agenda which they scheduled in May or June 2004. However, USCIS Service Center sources gave us a glimpse of the direction towards which the USCIS were heading. According to the sourcs, USCIS implemented a nine-month delay in fingerprint scheduling this year to alleviate the problem of fingerprints expiring prior to adjudication of the case. Reportedly, however, the Service Centers have been recently directed by the USCIS HQ to schedule fingerprinting upon receiving of I-485 applications, even though there is an anticipation that some of those cases may still experience some delays due to the backlogs at the Application Support Centers. This fingerprint agenda change is implemented with a targeted 485 processing time reduction to the period of validity of fingerprint (Fingerprint is valid for 15 months) by early next fiscal year. Fiscal Year starts on October 1, 2004. Additionally, by the end of this year, the USCIS will have installed a system which will capture and store the fingerprints, allowing the agency to obtain new pringer print results without 485 applicants being reprinted. Accordingly, in the near future, refingerprinting may be totally eliminated. Such change will allow the agency to reduce I-485 to 6 months by the end of FY 2006 (September 30, 2006).
All in all, the six-month I-485 processing times is at quite distance away, but we may, hopefully, see some level of processing time reduction within the year. Let's cross our fingers.
USCIS has yet to announce the backlog reduction agenda which they scheduled in May or June 2004. However, USCIS Service Center sources gave us a glimpse of the direction towards which the USCIS were heading. According to the sourcs, USCIS implemented a nine-month delay in fingerprint scheduling this year to alleviate the problem of fingerprints expiring prior to adjudication of the case. Reportedly, however, the Service Centers have been recently directed by the USCIS HQ to schedule fingerprinting upon receiving of I-485 applications, even though there is an anticipation that some of those cases may still experience some delays due to the backlogs at the Application Support Centers. This fingerprint agenda change is implemented with a targeted 485 processing time reduction to the period of validity of fingerprint (Fingerprint is valid for 15 months) by early next fiscal year. Fiscal Year starts on October 1, 2004. Additionally, by the end of this year, the USCIS will have installed a system which will capture and store the fingerprints, allowing the agency to obtain new pringer print results without 485 applicants being reprinted. Accordingly, in the near future, refingerprinting may be totally eliminated. Such change will allow the agency to reduce I-485 to 6 months by the end of FY 2006 (September 30, 2006).
All in all, the six-month I-485 processing times is at quite distance away, but we may, hopefully, see some level of processing time reduction within the year. Let's cross our fingers.
05/07/2004: 05/07/2004: New 485 Filing and Processing Agenda
USCIS has yet to announce the backlog reduction agenda which they scheduled in May or June 2004. However, USCIS Service Center sources gave us a glimpse of the direction towards which the USCIS were heading. According to the sourcs, USCIS implemented a nine-month delay in fingerprint scheduling this year to alleviate the problem of fingerprints expiring prior to adjudication of the case. Reportedly, however, the Service Centers have been recently directed by the USCIS HQ to schedule fingerprinting upon receiving of I-485 applications, even though there is an anticipation that some of those cases may still experience some delays due to the backlogs at the Application Support Centers. This fingerprint agenda change is implemented with a targeted 485 processing time reduction to the period of validity of fingerprint (Fingerprint is valid for 15 months) by early next fiscal year. Fiscal Year starts on October 1, 2004. Additionally, by the end of this year, the USCIS will have installed a system which will capture and store the fingerprints, allowing the agency to obtain new pringer print results without 485 applicants being reprinted. Accordingly, in the near future, refingerprinting may be totally eliminated. Such change will allow the agency to reduce I-485 to 6 months by the end of FY 2006 (September 30, 2006).
All in all, the six-month I-485 processing times is at quite distance away, but we may, hopefully, see some level of processing time reduction within the year. Let's cross our fingers.
USCIS has yet to announce the backlog reduction agenda which they scheduled in May or June 2004. However, USCIS Service Center sources gave us a glimpse of the direction towards which the USCIS were heading. According to the sourcs, USCIS implemented a nine-month delay in fingerprint scheduling this year to alleviate the problem of fingerprints expiring prior to adjudication of the case. Reportedly, however, the Service Centers have been recently directed by the USCIS HQ to schedule fingerprinting upon receiving of I-485 applications, even though there is an anticipation that some of those cases may still experience some delays due to the backlogs at the Application Support Centers. This fingerprint agenda change is implemented with a targeted 485 processing time reduction to the period of validity of fingerprint (Fingerprint is valid for 15 months) by early next fiscal year. Fiscal Year starts on October 1, 2004. Additionally, by the end of this year, the USCIS will have installed a system which will capture and store the fingerprints, allowing the agency to obtain new pringer print results without 485 applicants being reprinted. Accordingly, in the near future, refingerprinting may be totally eliminated. Such change will allow the agency to reduce I-485 to 6 months by the end of FY 2006 (September 30, 2006).
All in all, the six-month I-485 processing times is at quite distance away, but we may, hopefully, see some level of processing time reduction within the year. Let's cross our fingers.