concurrent 485 approved in 8.5 months

[Leta Prama]

Canadian living in WA
Concurrent Filing, EB3, Nebraska Service Center
Priority Date: 12/31/2001
Labor Cert Transfer from WA ESD to SF USDOL: 05/01/2003
Labor Cert Approved Date: 12/18/2003
Received Date: 02/05/2004
Notice Date: 02/09/2004
I-765 Approved Date: 03/25/04
Fingerprint Date: 05/12/2004
I-131 Approved Date: 05/14/2004
I-140 Approved Date: 09/22/2004
I-485 Approved Date: 10/22/2004

I noticed on Rupnet a bunch of approvals with RD's of feb 04 such as mine (not sure if the other approvals shown there are also concurrent).
I know about NSC seeming to put concurrent filers on a fast track as of April this year, so to my surprise this appears to have worked for me. I was expecting to have to wait around 2 more years.

So for me the only real hitch in the GC process was my Labor Cert taking almost exactly 2 years due to the huge spike in LC applications that happened in April 2001 due to a law change. But even if this delay didn't happen, I suppose my GC still would have taken at least this long, as it seems I'm just lucky now that NSC has started this fast-track processing.

Good luck to others.

-Leta

 

[MrSkyMour]

That's great news,,, I almost have the same dates, except the I-485 which is not approved yet...
So what's your next mod/project? I'm thinking once I get the green card from the US, I should move to another country and start a similar process from scratch