Dallas Backlog Elimination Center Tracking

ziv711 said:
Hey Icarus,

What do you mean "we're human"? I thought you guys were a bunch of robots processing cases like there's no tomorrow... :)

Kidding aside, I have a question regarding your 11:30am task: So you're saying there was a snafu early in the process and some people didn't get the 45 day letters. If that's the case, I bet my friend is in that category, as well as LC4ever, as both cases have similar PDs and were forwarded to DOL regional from Oklahoma (and hence probably were part of this "snafu").

Are these cases going to be fixed (and letters generated AND mailed out) as their processing time approaches? If so, then since my friend's PD is December '01, he should get a letter any day now...

Could these cases "fall between the cracks" and be closed by an analyst who is not as alert to the issue as you are? What can be done in such a case?

As always, your help and updates are greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Incidents such as these are dwindling off as processing moves forward. If a case is closed due to "lack of response" a letter is automatically generated notifying the agent/employer of case closure. If it can be shown that this was in error (never receiving letters, able to provide proof of delivery, etc.) The case is re-entered, maintaining PD, and a new case number is assigned with notifying letters sent advising of the new case number. Once the response is received to the 45-day letter, the case will be placed into the queue by PD, despite the delay.
 
ram_ram said:
From the approvals, It looks like Dallas BEC has currently moved to NON-RIR cases. Will it process NON-RIR cases for a while to get that queue(which is at Apr 2001) in sync with RIR date(May/June 2002)? Should watch the trend..DOL is unpredictable..:)
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Nope...still processing both. RIR queue is now over 17,000 waiting analysis, while TR is only about 1500.
 
RAYDHAN said:
ICARUS,
When you visit this forum in the next day or two, can you please enlighten us on the following concerns?

1) What priority dates are being "analyzed" :) currently for RIR cases and non-RIR cases at Dallas?
2) Any idea what dates are being "approved" :D by the COs currently? We are getting some irregular reports of RIR cases with PDs of April 2002 being approved, where as RIR cases like mine (PD of Jan 2002) and others before me have not yet received any approvals. Is that possible? If yes, how?

I hope you could imagine how much we appreciate your updates.

Regards,
Raydhan
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See my prior (today) post re RIR analysis dates. As for approvals, don't have access to that data, but FIFO is followed at this point as well. When the CO is reviewing cases for certification, they pull from a computer maintained queue similar to RIR and TR. This date will float as well, depending on PD's approved for final review by RIR/TR analysts in the interim since the last case pulled by the CO.
 
Zany_Brainy said:
Icarus,
Please please spare a minute and tell us
1) We got an approval new from user tgunukula PD 04/02
http://www.immigrationportal.com/showpost.php?p=1147244&postcount=50
and an RFE news from another user PD 05/02..
http://www.immigrationportal.com/showpost.php?p=1150274&postcount=100
Does this mean that the Dallas RIR queue has reached May 2002? In a word, yes. Obviously with the exception of the stray case being put in the queue with a prior PD.

2) Can you tell us if the number of CO personnel has increased or not and how many cases they are approving and sending out on an average? The CO's have brought on board additional help in reviewing cases for certification.

3) At what stage is an RFE/NOF being issued ? At the analysis stage or at the CO stage. NOF's are just getting underway. As with the 45-day letters, shortcomings in programming melding PBLS with the letter generation program have held this up. Recent work-arounds have enabled analysts to begin generating NOF's for review. Once a NOF has been confirmed by a CO, it will be sent to the agent/employer for review/remedy.

Thanks in advance for your insights

ZB
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sleepless_in_IN said:
1. How many SWA/SESA cases have been entered? Can you tell us which states roughly?

2. When can SWA/SESA cases that HAVE been entered expect 45 day letters?

3. How many SWA/SESA cases must be entered before Dallas sends out 45 day letters? Is there a number they wait to accumulate each time?

4. How many cases must be ready to process before Dallas believes they have a large enough queue to start processing SWA/SESA cases?

5. DOL reported that Philly is ahead of Dallas in entering cases - does Dallas have any plans to catch up?
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1. SWA cases responding to 45-day letter that have made it to analysis queue currently number in the low hundreds. 2. Once data entry is completed on a SWA case, the letter goes out the door within 24 hours just like regional cases. 3. No magic number, they're generated and sent as they are entered 4. Same deal, as cases are put into the queue, they are analyzed in FIFO order. 5. Numbers between Philly and Dallas are relative and are a result of different management teams at each location. Although both are technically the same company, they are not carbon copies of each other. While Philly may be ahead in data entry, Dallas is currently ahead in actual certifications.
 
Thanks

I am silent reader of this message board. Just wanted to acknowledge the fine work done by Icarus, it means a lot to us.
 
For ICARUS ....please let us know


Thanks ICarus for your update....

Now as you mentioned in other thread that 7/2002 (July cases) are being analyzed currently....so could you please tell me that approximately how many cases are waiting for certification....and like how many cases are being certified daily.........Just give a rough number so that we can get an idea.

thanks much!!
 
For Icarus

ICARUS,
Thanks for your weekly updates. Just one quick question, any idea if there is a possibility in the near future that the number of COs in Dallas BPC will increase in number to speed up the final approval process? How soon?

Regards,
Raydhan
 
guys,

If you're from SF DOL and your case were transfered to Dallas, you just got the lottery, especially if your PD is 2002. It seems your case will be cleared in a couple of weeks.

Look at me, even I have same PD, jun 2002, from CA, my case is doomed just because it is allocted to Philly. From availabe infomation, it looks Phil BEC will not adjudicate a single case before all 45-day letter being input, let alone that SWA cases are still keep pouring (no one know when is the end), and already bunches of 2001 NY cases queued ahead us. If Philly sticks to strict FIFO, and it seems intends to, there won't be single case certified before all cases got shipped from other agencies and finished input.

FIFO is great. Fairness is great! Nonetheless, I just don't see the necessity to delay those old cases, while committing all resources to input those 2005 cases.

Darn bad luck!



gp111 said:
Thanks Icarus..
Keep on Visiting us once a week with this kinda Positive News.
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Thanks ICARUS, For keeping our hopes still alive.
If each analyst is clearing 10/20 cases per day, Over the last eight weeks there must be 4k to 8k cases lined up at the C.O desk(Only RIR). We have seen only a few approvals/NOF's so far.
It is not adding up. Have some analysts moved over to data entry?
--MC
 
45-day letter

First, thank the knowledgable experts here.

My priority date was Sept. 2002. The case was filed in California. I haven't received the 45-day letter yet. Should I be worried about it? Have they sent out the letters for most of the cases?

Any answer will be appreciated.
 
LC Filed in California on Aug 2004...

My wife's LC is filed in California (Local not Regional yet) on Aug 2004...We still have not heard about our 45 days letter(love letter). We called our lawyers and they say that they have not heard anything...We are in a dilema because I'm on H4 and would love to move to another place so that I can get someone to sponsor me on H1...My wife is willing to give up her greencard so that we can be on the Perm....My question is whether it will be better to go find another company or wait here for my wife's greencard and then I will get EAD to work....She is an OT and I guess it is easy for her to find job anywhere....Please advice....If anyone know of H1 sponsor opportunity, please let me know....Haes75@yahoo.com

Thanks for all the post on this great website.
 
Asib said:
Hello Icarus,
Do the special handling cases receive 45 days letter as well?
Thank you,
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Yes, all cases transferred to BEC received a 45-day letter once Data Entry is complete
 
m_chundi said:
Thanks ICARUS, For keeping our hopes still alive.
If each analyst is clearing 10/20 cases per day, Over the last eight weeks there must be 4k to 8k cases lined up at the C.O desk(Only RIR). We have seen only a few approvals/NOF's so far.
It is not adding up. Have some analysts moved over to data entry?
--MC
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Revising the clear rate down to an average of 4/day (currently) would bring the total down closer to the actual figure of around 1600 cases.
 
sleepless_in_IN said:
If there are SWA cases in the analysis queue - why is it that we have yet to see a single person report reciept of a 45 day letter from Dallas for a SWA/SESA case? :confused:

You did not say how many SWA cases were entered. Can you give us some STATE specific info:
# of SWA/SESA cases entered by State {complete or not - as in, assigned case #'s (temp or not) and ready (or in the process of getting ready) to have 45 day letter mailed out??}
# of 45 day letters sent out by State for SWA/SESA cases?
# of SWA/SESA cases in the analysis queue by State? PD's of those cases?

Do you even have access to that info.??No, unfortunately not.

For those of us with State cases with PDs in 2001 wish Dallas would have spent time entering our cases rather than approve 2002 cases, while proclaiming FIFO. The excuse that Regional cases were recieved first does not cut it, BEC needs to clearly state that FIFO is sperate for Regional vs. State cases, they have failed to do so, and hence failed FIFO.
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Regional cases were given priority at DOL's direction, as it was assumed that these had been in the system longer, more processing had been accomplished on these cases and they would be cleared more quickly. To meet your criteria for FIFO, all cases (both regional and SWA) would have had to be entered simultaneously if not instantaneously(unlikely).Or, worse, as it had been feared, all case processing would have been put on hold until ALL data entry had been completed(fair?)
 
Icarus said:
Regional cases were given priority at DOL's direction, as it was assumed that these had been in the system longer, more processing had been accomplished on these cases and they would be cleared more quickly. To meet your criteria for FIFO, all cases (both regional and SWA) would have had to be entered simultaneously if not instantaneously(unlikely).Or, worse, as it had been feared, all case processing would have been put on hold until ALL data entry had been completed(fair?)
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Icarus,

i'm now really confused. u said in a message before that only few hundreds of SWA were in the system and in this last message u say u don't have information about SWA cases. there is something not clear here. also if there r 20 analysts in total for processing, where r the other people of BEC (total around 100). what r they doing? they shouldn't enter SWA cases meanwhile?

u said before that by march 2006 all cases should be entered. at this current rate of entering data, BEC will never finish entering data by that time.can u pls clarify?
 
Give the guy a break..

antonioa77 said:
Icarus,

i'm now really confused. u said in a message before that only few hundreds of SWA were in the system and in this last message u say u don't have information about SWA cases. there is something not clear here. also if there r 20 analysts in total for processing, where r the other people of BEC (total around 100). what r they doing? they shouldn't enter SWA cases meanwhile?

u said before that by march 2006 all cases should be entered. at this current rate of entering data, BEC will never finish entering data by that time.can u pls clarify?
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I cannot believe this. Icarus goes out of his way to provide us information from inside the BEC BLACK HOLE and you guys are sending him insuniating messages like this..

He is reporting what he knows and circumstances are changing daily. I think in place of trying to blame him or pointing a finger we should all be ever grateful that we found a friend like him in the Dallas BEC who provides us with all this insights..

The same thing happens to me, I do all this analysis and I get only insults in return.. grow up boys..

ZB
 
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