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Similar thoughts hang over me, too sometimes. Especially, in this state of economy job loss might become imminent and new job prospects with similar job description are next to rare.
I heard (this is unconfirmed and might be rumor - so don't panic) that even if they start approvals, cases will be delayed too much. FBI was used to notifying INS only for "criminal record may exist" cases. For other cases, FBI would communicate nothing to the INS and the INS used to approve such cases. Now (according to this rumor) INS will not approve a case until a definite (yes or no record type) response from the FBI is received. This could add up another couple of months I guess.
Again, this is not a confirmed information. Let's see if anyone else here has any first hand "kind of" information either from their attorenys or from the IIOs.
Best wishes,
Jigesh