Originally posted by 4gc
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I-485 Employment based 11/01/2002 08/01/2001
I-485 Employment based 11/15/2002 08/01/2001
I-485 Employment based 01/01/2003 08/01/2001
I-485 Employment based 01/15/2003 08/01/2001
I-485 Employment based 02/01/2003 08/01/2001
I-485 Employment based 02/15/2003 08/01/2001
I-485 Employment based 03/01/2003 08/01/2001
I-485 Employment based 03/15/2003 08/01/2001
I-485 Employment based 04/15/2003 08/22/2001
I-485 Employment based 05/01/2003 08/22/2001
Good Analysis, this date is not exactly correct date, if you checked on www.rupnet.com, you can see lots of approval for september/ octomber as well, but INS want to give very conservative date, if you rember in past, like last year once date was 08/01/2001 and next month date went back to 04/01/01, becuase they found some case from april'01, so although they were working on 08/01 cases, becuase they found some back log from some storage area (!! ?) they moved date back, I think to reduce phone call from tne people they are publish very very conservative number
other thing I am guessing there might be large number of case filed from July to Dec'01, so i think once they complete upto dec'01 or jan'02 the process will became faster becuase of few cases filed around those time.
The one more thing might be becuase department change to BCIS or other screening process may taking longer time compar to year ago.
Looks like NSC is processing anything other than I-485.
Any idea WHY?