All arguments notwithstanding (about unfairness being more a norm than the exception in this real world), I have to say that it really really SUCKS the way INS has been doing business. I don't care what the modalities/permutations are -- be it a 140 standalone case, a 140/CP case, a 140/485 (concurrent, but yet not, i.e. 485 filed at a later date) case, or a 140/485 (truly concurrent) case -- it just isn't done to adjudicate in any fashion other than a "first-in-first-out" framework. For starters, it's nothing but making mockery of anything and everything when a processing time is assigned as 90-300 days. Come to think of it, that's a standard deviation of infinity around the mean for all practical purposes!
Reverting to my first remark, I'm sure you all couldn't have helped but notice applicants from Dec'02/Jan'03 being approved while folks from as back as Apr/May'02 still languishing. It's one thing to be unfair by processing someone from say Oct'02 before someone from Aug'02 (even though it's unfair, it's perhaps a "to-live-with" thing) -- it's on a totally different plane when the gulf of unfairness is as huge as 6-7 months.
Anyways, I've rambled on enough. Not that this is something outrightly new or informative that I'm talking about; it does, though, definitely help a little to speak out and feel slightly lesser knotty.
Reverting to my first remark, I'm sure you all couldn't have helped but notice applicants from Dec'02/Jan'03 being approved while folks from as back as Apr/May'02 still languishing. It's one thing to be unfair by processing someone from say Oct'02 before someone from Aug'02 (even though it's unfair, it's perhaps a "to-live-with" thing) -- it's on a totally different plane when the gulf of unfairness is as huge as 6-7 months.
Anyways, I've rambled on enough. Not that this is something outrightly new or informative that I'm talking about; it does, though, definitely help a little to speak out and feel slightly lesser knotty.