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My lawyers received certified labor on Friday. The actual date of approval is 9-28-06. Certifying officer is Barbara Shelly. Thanks a lot for maintaining the tracker.
Also, for all those who have priority date from 2001/2002 and are stuck, I suggest that you write letters to Elaine Chao/William Carlson/Senators/Congress men etc. I patiently waited all these years not wanting to rock the boat. A few months ago, when I started seeing July 2002 approvals from PBEC, I got very hopeful and waited for some news on my case. Soon PBEC went past July 2002 and then July 2003 and still no news about my case. Finally fed up, I wrote a letter to Elaine Chao. In response I got a standard canned replyfrom William Carlson. I wrote back to him reminding him of FIFO and all other BS. My letter was delivered to his office on 9/26/06. The approval stamp on certified labor is for 9/28/06. What surprised me most was that some corrections on the labor certification were done with hand on 9/29/06 after approval (my company changed law firm during the process and new lawyers sent for change in correspondence address with reply to 45-day letter). From this it seems to me that no one had even touched my application until then. In the last few months when approvals were coming for cases with priority dates in 2003/2004, there were rumors goign around that all cases left from 2001/2002 were going to get NOF. I think that is all BS. I feel that the only reason those cases are stuck is because no one has looked at them. If they had looked at them, they would have already issued NOF if it was needed. PBEC is simply processing some cases, skipping some and moving along. If you are one of those unlucky ones who have been skipped, you will be better off doing something about it rather than hoping that they will come back to your case soon. I wish all the best to all of you. Hope you all will get your approvals soon.
