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- Thread starter tombaan
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09/26/2003: Mystery of Processing Times Report
- We often encounter callers who express anger over alleged mistreatment of his/her case by the Service Centers. Typically, they argue that according to the Service Center processing times report, they are processing "certain date" of cases but the caller filed their cases much earlier. Usually, such callers misunderstand that the processing and adjudication of cases at the Service Centers are produced in a matter of production beltline in the manufacturing plant. The following explanation of one Service Center should help the immigrant community to understand the reality of the work process within the Service Center buildings: "Some Officers are working on dates that are ahead of published times, but not every officer is working on same date. SC must report the oldest dates of each type of application being worked so even if they are working ahead, it may not be reflected by the current processing time list if there is even one case from the older date pending." When the SC adjudicates older cases to reduce the backlog in the processing times report, they have to keep adjudicating cases which they had received in much later dates because the SC cannot let new ones fall further behind.
- The foregoing should answer the common mystery why the later cases of other colleagues receive decision earlier than his or her's. People should understand the limit of the Processing Times Reports of the Service Centers when it comes to understanding of waiting time for a specific individual case. Again, it is not a beltline in an automated production process in a manufacturing facility.
Source: http://www.immigration-law.com/Archive VIII.html
- We often encounter callers who express anger over alleged mistreatment of his/her case by the Service Centers. Typically, they argue that according to the Service Center processing times report, they are processing "certain date" of cases but the caller filed their cases much earlier. Usually, such callers misunderstand that the processing and adjudication of cases at the Service Centers are produced in a matter of production beltline in the manufacturing plant. The following explanation of one Service Center should help the immigrant community to understand the reality of the work process within the Service Center buildings: "Some Officers are working on dates that are ahead of published times, but not every officer is working on same date. SC must report the oldest dates of each type of application being worked so even if they are working ahead, it may not be reflected by the current processing time list if there is even one case from the older date pending." When the SC adjudicates older cases to reduce the backlog in the processing times report, they have to keep adjudicating cases which they had received in much later dates because the SC cannot let new ones fall further behind.
- The foregoing should answer the common mystery why the later cases of other colleagues receive decision earlier than his or her's. People should understand the limit of the Processing Times Reports of the Service Centers when it comes to understanding of waiting time for a specific individual case. Again, it is not a beltline in an automated production process in a manufacturing facility.
Source: http://www.immigration-law.com/Archive VIII.html
Dates movement means nothing for frustrated people like me.
Filed my I-485 sometime back in Sep'01. ND Nov '01. Fp Apr'03.
Already filed for 3-EAD's and 3-AP's. My 3rd EAD and 3rd AP is still pending. Not sure when I will get my approval.
Frustration is not only due to I-485 delay but also due to EAD and AP delay. Filed my 3rd -EAD on 11/14/03. Now the current processing date is Feb'04. Already sent Expediate processing fax to TSC. Filed two online CIS enquiries, Contacted Congressmen. Still no effect. Got a stupid letter from TSC explaining the same thing(this will take 90-120 days to process your case). It is all your fate(Example is people filed in 2002 and 2003 getting approved and people filed in May '01 still not approved.). One of my friend filed his case in Mar'03 got approved. Nothing like anything called dates in TSC. TSC really sucks.
Filed my I-485 sometime back in Sep'01. ND Nov '01. Fp Apr'03.
Already filed for 3-EAD's and 3-AP's. My 3rd EAD and 3rd AP is still pending. Not sure when I will get my approval.
Frustration is not only due to I-485 delay but also due to EAD and AP delay. Filed my 3rd -EAD on 11/14/03. Now the current processing date is Feb'04. Already sent Expediate processing fax to TSC. Filed two online CIS enquiries, Contacted Congressmen. Still no effect. Got a stupid letter from TSC explaining the same thing(this will take 90-120 days to process your case). It is all your fate(Example is people filed in 2002 and 2003 getting approved and people filed in May '01 still not approved.). One of my friend filed his case in Mar'03 got approved. Nothing like anything called dates in TSC. TSC really sucks.
jvk just a suggestion,if you have still not received your EAD you could probably go to local office and get an interim EAD- a little inconvenience but atleast you won't lose your salary. I was asked to do that when I called the 800 number. you could probably get your AP too just check.