Do we interpret LIN numbers correctly?

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Sankrityayan

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I have till now understood that the characters 6 through 8 in the LIN numbers represented the workday in the fiscal year of INS on which NSC has collected the fees that also became the notice date. After seeing a couple of rupnet entries today, my understanding of this scheme is back to square one.

To illustrate this predicament, I have reproduced a couple of entries from rupnet below that have recently received RFEs. The order of the fields is user id, LIN no., RD and then ND:

ashu LIN-02-102-xxxxx 01/24/2002 02/04/2002
Nirav Shah LIN-02-103-xxxxx 02/05/2002 02/09/2002

As can be noted from the above, it appears that two folks that have Feb. 04, 2002 and Feb. 09, 2002 as their NDs have consecutive digits in their LIN nos. (102 and 103). So what happens to Feb. 05, 06, 07, and 08.

Not that this really matters; Seldom do the actions of the service appear to have any rhyme or reason, but for the fact that most of us believed we had this nailed.
 
Are we assuming...

incorrectly that users in Rupnet have been accurate in updating NDs and RDs. I am a little fuzzy about my RD and ND as well. Anyway this response should placate "cmr" who is looking forward to some action on this board.
 
It really happens. E.g. Scanning particular series you can find it. This will be more visible with I-140 cases as message never changes until case is decided or get an RFE. I was scanning Vermont service center for series EAC02-202. All other cases had date May 30 2002 where three cases has June 6 2002 as date.
 
Some more recent RFE cases from rupnet that do not seem to agree:

Reddy LIN-02-101-5XXXX 01/28/2002 02/05/2002
Hassan LIN-02-103-xxxxx 01/28/2002 02/05/2002
JAck LIN-02-105-xxxxx 01/31/2002 02/05/2002

As you can see, all the three cases have the same ND but have different LIN Nos.:confused:

Is there a method here? Not that it matters, but it just bothers me. Anybody out there that can educate us on this?
 
looks like it is based on RD

JAck LIN-02-105-xxxxx 01/31/2002 02/05/2002
and my RD is 02/06/2002 and LIN is 02-109-xxxx.

My RD is exactly 4 th working day after user id jack's


waiting_4_485
 
My LIN number is 02-012-xxxxx and my notice date is 10/16/01 which makes it exactly the 12th working day in the month of October. Interestingly, for some reason, all my notices tend to refer to my receipt date as 10/16/01, which according to the initial 485 receipt notice was actually my notice date, with the receipt date being 9/13/01. Could well therefore be that the NSC uses the receipt date as the index, and as is typical of its screwed up ways, got my receipt date mixed up with my notice date.
 
Here is the theory..

02- First two digits year (02 starts at 2001 october)
111- Next three digits working day (ie from october 1st)
Some times same recieving day can have next number since they only assaign only certain numbers for this 3 digits.
For example on 111 it can take only upto 59999. After that it would be 112-50001.

Hope this helps.
 
first two - Number of years BCIS requires to approve the case
nect three - Add this many days to # of years.

for example:
LIN-02111*****: approval after 2years 111 days
LIN-03111*****: approval after 3years 111 days
... ...
... ...
LIN-10111***** approval after 10years 111 days or after death, whichever comes earlier!

:D
 
Thats funny. I really laughed hard. :D

I don't what I would have done without this forum. It keeps me hopeful and deal with the fact that I filed GC 5+ years ago and all my friends got GC except me.... (waited 2 years for Priority date to get current..) and now I am in another l....o.....n.....g queue.

Mugdha.
 
Re: Here is the theory..

Originally posted by Seth_Chamaklal
02- First two digits year (02 starts at 2001 october)
111- Next three digits working day (ie from october 1st)
Some times same recieving day can have next number since they only assaign only certain numbers for this 3 digits.
For example on 111 it can take only upto 59999. After that it would be 112-50001.

Hope this helps.
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It is a theory alright; but it does not seem to work. If you are correct, NSC processed in excess of 40,000 applications on Feb. 05, 2002. I find that hard to believe.:rolleyes:
 
Sanskrit, actually NSC messes up

RD on hard copy, AVM and Online Status separately in whatever manner they choose.
Mine for example: hard copy receipt says RD of 02/01 and AVM and Online says it is 02/08! There is a difference of 7 days. I am sure those who posted on rupnet got totally confused about which date to choose for their particular LIN numbers. I guess we haven't nailed this down this completely yet. In my case I if someone asks me what is my ND, I usually say 02/01 half of the time and 02/08 rest of the time......
 
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