I remember in early 2002, some cases were treated almost like April 2004 cases. One of the members, rajum, was in that lot. That lot was delayed considerably. Why? No one knows. This is a definite feature in VSC. Some cases of October 2003 faced the same thing and some of the Dec 2003 cases are still hanging. Don't ask me why it happens! I have no idea. For these applicants EAD,AP,FP and 485 - everything is delayed. Let us hope April 2004 guys do not face it. Well, I do not like to comment on negatives of trends that often but I see one more definite patch in 2004 where it looks like an island with respect to processing and wait is growing.
I want to be wrong on this point - I would love to be wrong here.
Going by data that we have, I see a trend that people get FP notice first and then 140 followed by 485. Wish all April folks get the second path - if they cannot get freedom of using AC-21.