I have inserted my comments in to the body of your email in the interest of contextual juxtaposition; I do not really disagree with you; I am just being the devil's advocate!
Originally posted by gc_howlong
I know my remarks were little off the mark. But look at the randomness of the approvals.
[INS knows this but does not want to acknowledge this is happening. That is why they deliberately hold the official procesing dates at Aug. 2001]
Originally posted by gc_howlong
I don't mind waiting for another six months if I know for sure that my case would be worked on by then
[How about if they told you that the wait is six years; would that knowledge make the wait any more palatable? In fact, that is exactly the approach INS seems to be adopting when they tell callers on their customer service line that approvals are taking 27 month, even though many cases get approved before that].
Originally posted by gc_howlong
The inconsistency in the approval process and the complete intransparency on BCIS' part is freaking me out
[it is non-transparent only because you have access to rupnet and boards such as these. As far as the INS bureaucrats are concerned, they are processing Aug. 2001 cases and have consistently been giving a 27 month response to callers. they do not acknowledge the existence of forums like these and hence in their bounded world, they are able to convince themselves that they are being consistent and transparent].
Originally posted by gc_howlong
I believe you all agree that we all have a basic right to know the modus operandi of the 485 processing
[apparently not; we have not seen many people assert this right if it is indeed a right].
Originally posted by gc_howlong
Leaving the derivatives and other cases aside, if you take the employment based cases do you see any specific pattern on the basis of which you can make an intelligent guess that your case would be approved or denied in a given time frame?
[You need to be a mensa member to be able to do this. User paulclarke1 has made a couple of attempts at future gazing, but I am not sure how prescient his/her forecasts turned out to be]
Originally posted by gc_howlong
On one end of the spectrum there are people with Aug, Sep and Oct RDs still waiting desparately and on the end there are quite a few people with Jan'02 RD got approved within two to three weeks after replying their RFEs. In between there are tons of candidates like me who replied their RFEs, did the second FP, applied for the third EAD and waiting to see some light around the corner. But it seems the corner prefers to stay dark for don't know how long.
I understand that BCIS is resource crunched and due to the security checks and all the cases are taking long time to get processed
[INS actually has more resources than it ever had in the past. They are just being deployed under a system of priorities that does not align with the interests of the employment-based immigrants, while the number of such immigrants keeps growing rapidly].
Originally posted by gc_howlong
To me, all this makes perfect sense. Let them take 26 month to process..... I don't mind. But is it guaranteed that your case will be approved in 26 months. No.
Do any of us or our lawyers know how the cases are processed.... how the priorities are set.....after how long the RFE responses are looked into..... If we know the pattern and if we can predict the approval date with some degree of precision then I beleive most of our desparation will vanish.
I don't think BCIS needs any resources to publish how the cases are processed and what the applicants can expect from them. As you all know information is power. With no information you are like a blind person with no knowledge of what's going on around you.
Imagine what would have happened to all of us if we didn't have Rupnet and this forum
[exactly; so we do have information, except that it is not complete and INS will neither confirm it nor deny it].
Originally posted by gc_howlong
We would have been going crazy by now to see the same processing dates for more than a year if we were depending on BCIS' published dates only
[remember the catch-22 situation? if you know you are crazy, you should be sane!].
Originally posted by gc_howlong
I am not asking for a big favor from BCIS. All that I want is a little bit of transperancy and minimum customer service from them. That would make my day a better one. You may are may not agree with my argument but I would definitely want to hear your views on it.
Chill; INS has power over you only if you willingly give it to them.
