2003 Consolidated Tracker ONLY (140/EAD/AP/FP/485)
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indianexpert
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How come 372 days remaining in tracker for my 485 ETA reply please
The tracker for me :the first person in EB1 category shows expected 372 days remaining...Please make me understand why so many days as compare to other people..EB1A manager
The tracker for me :the first person in EB1 category shows expected 372 days remaining...Please make me understand why so many days as compare to other people..EB1A manager
speedy1027
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RFE - Should it be a source of concern?
Hakoonamatata, myself and a very few others seem to have got the RFEs on 485...mostly for the same reason (ie., secondary evidence of birth,EVL,past tax forms etc...).
Should this be of concern?
Your (and other's) thoughts on this?
cheers
speedy1027
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Hakoonamatata, myself and a very few others seem to have got the RFEs on 485...mostly for the same reason (ie., secondary evidence of birth,EVL,past tax forms etc...).
Should this be of concern?
Your (and other's) thoughts on this?
cheers
speedy1027
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indianexpert said:
Sure
.There's info on the expected days remaining stat earlier in this thread but in a nutshell, this is just a very rough guesstimate so don't put a lot of weight on it.
The estimate is based on the average time for approvals (or transfers) within your EB catagory relative to your I-140 ND.
There's plenty wrong with this approach, the main one being that the VSC has sped up their processing enormously compared to 1 year (or even 6 months ago) and cases are probably not going to take anywhere as long to process on average as they did in the past. Also, because the estimate is based on the I-140 ND, this could be misleading for separately filed cases (as is the case with yours).
The "good" news in your case is that it's not showing 372 days *remaining* -- (372) means that based on the other approvals, you should have been approved 372 days *ago*.
I'm starting to think though that for separately filed cases, they must be going off of the I-485 ND (unless they decide to process the I-140 / I-485 concurrently but we're only starting to see this recently, mostly for 2004 cases). If this is correct, then your expected time for approval would actually be 66 days.
Does everyone else agree with the above conclusion? If so, I could change the stats to go off the I-485 ND if it's different from the I-140 ND so the estimate would be a little more accurate for those cases.
Note: ideally the entire spreadsheet would have been using the *RDs* for stats but for many cases people only gave their *NDs* and in general, these only differ by a bit so the numbers are probably accurate enough.
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speedy1027 said:
It's generally better not to get an RFE these days as this can slow your case down (although in *some* cases it can actually speed things up if you get an early RFE and they adjucate your case as soon as you respond).
As long as you are able to give the USCIS what they asked for I wouldn't worry.
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uNeverKnow
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its (372), means you should have been approved 372 days ago, again this is a calculation based on estimation for the current senario and not on specific case situation.
formula is: IF(ISNUMBER(Z8), V$451 - Z8, "")
today-day you filed 140 - (avg EB1 485 approval time) which is 503 days.
Hence its been 874 days since you recd ND for 140 Minus avg EB1:485 processing time which is 874-503 which means you should have been approved almost a year ago - but then again individual cases vary and this is just a ball park estimate based on the data collected and processed within this XL file only, which ofcourse has a possibility of lot of E&OE's... but still does a very good job Vs. anything out there for estimation.
hope this helps!!!
formula is: IF(ISNUMBER(Z8), V$451 - Z8, "")
today-day you filed 140 - (avg EB1 485 approval time) which is 503 days.
Hence its been 874 days since you recd ND for 140 Minus avg EB1:485 processing time which is 874-503 which means you should have been approved almost a year ago - but then again individual cases vary and this is just a ball park estimate based on the data collected and processed within this XL file only, which ofcourse has a possibility of lot of E&OE's... but still does a very good job Vs. anything out there for estimation.
hope this helps!!!
indianexpert said:
uNeverKnow
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ETA-GC said:Sure
The estimate is based on the average time for approvals (or transfers) within your EB catagory relative to your I-140 ND.
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You might want to add additional columns to base estimation off 140ND, 485ND and anymore as req. to give choice of #'s estimation basis.
One or the other will make us feel better
in the quest to be gc'd...any views...uNeverKnow
uNeverKnow said:You might want to add additional columns to base estimation off 140ND, 485ND and anymore as req. to give choice of #'s estimation basis.
One or the other will make us feel better
uNeverKnow
Obviously, using the I-485 ND for separately filed cases is always going to make the estimate higher (since the I-485 ND is always >= the I-140 ND).
Also, note that the I-485 time and therefore all the averages at the bottom was already going off the I-485 ND so allowing for both scenarios would get complicated -- we'd end up having to compute averages for I-485 times based off both scenarios.
Maybe I'll add a min / max time at some point (ideally we'd try to find out if they really do go off the I-485 RD) but for now, for those relatively few separately filed cases, people can just subtract the number of days between the 2 NDs of the estimate if they want.
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Tracker Updated
Moved kotha2003 to the correct position (my error checking code caught this nicely).
Added I-485 approval for devadoss (ND: 09/23/03 AD: 12/01/04).
Kind of a slow day so far -- hopefully things will pick up...
% TRANSFERRED (OUT OF ALL CASES ) 1.6%
% COMPLETED (OUT OF CASES WITH FP AND I-140 DATES GIVEN...) 59.0%
% COMPLETED (OUT OF CASES WITH FP DATE GIVEN...) 53.6%
% COMPLETED (OUT OF CASES WITH I-140 APPROVAL DATE GIVEN...) 37.8%
% COMPLETED (OUT OF ALL CASES) 28.4%
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Moved kotha2003 to the correct position (my error checking code caught this nicely
).Added I-485 approval for devadoss (ND: 09/23/03 AD: 12/01/04).
Kind of a slow day so far -- hopefully things will pick up...
% TRANSFERRED (OUT OF ALL CASES ) 1.6%
% COMPLETED (OUT OF CASES WITH FP AND I-140 DATES GIVEN...) 59.0%
% COMPLETED (OUT OF CASES WITH FP DATE GIVEN...) 53.6%
% COMPLETED (OUT OF CASES WITH I-140 APPROVAL DATE GIVEN...) 37.8%
% COMPLETED (OUT OF ALL CASES) 28.4%
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I think USCIS is approving few cases from each month at random so that people will stop complaining. No wonder we see cases between Apr 03 and Apr 04 getting approved with few approvals from each month. May be there are many whose applications filed before Apr 2003 that have not been approved. Thats what it could be...
Help
Hi,
My I-140 case not even touched after ND 12/29/2003.
My lawyer told me he called in Aug 2004 and he told me that an inquiry has been initiated (regular customer service) and no response with in 30 days.
I checked in some of the discussion forums here, next time we (Lawyer or Employer) can ask customer service to connect to Service Center to find status about my case, which my employer called, but they refused to connect to service center,but they initiated another inquiry.same 30 days story.
How to ask customer service to get connected to service center?
are some kind of special words we need to say?
help is greatly appreciated
Thanks
Hi,
My I-140 case not even touched after ND 12/29/2003.
My lawyer told me he called in Aug 2004 and he told me that an inquiry has been initiated (regular customer service) and no response with in 30 days.
I checked in some of the discussion forums here, next time we (Lawyer or Employer) can ask customer service to connect to Service Center to find status about my case, which my employer called, but they refused to connect to service center,but they initiated another inquiry.same 30 days story.
How to ask customer service to get connected to service center?
are some kind of special words we need to say?
help is greatly appreciated
Thanks
uNeverKnow
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