Ciba, what I mean is that I don\'t beleive the AVM is updated....
...in a consistent and reliable way, and I really think that the purpose of the AVM is to give people that are waiting (and waiting, and waiting...) a number to call, to keep them calm so that they don\'t bother the "working" people at INS.
If the AVM did not exist, these (waiting) people who are also quite smart would figure out the phone numbers and call the clerks that are supposed to handle their applications...
Now, wouldn\'t that be unbearable...! All these people that have been waiting for months and years calling and calling every day, wanting some real answers about what is happening with their applications. It would be really unconvenient to have to answer all these questions!
So someone at INS came up with the bright idea of AVM. Now everyone could get back to their slowmotion world, being protected from the reality by this ingenious AVM system...that keeps those alien idiots out there happy...
Something to think about.