My husband and I filed our I-485 applications on November 30 2004 and have had similar experiences. Our I-140 petition was approved by the time we filed the I-485 at the VSC. We got our fingerprinting done on March 15th 2005. The LUD on our cases changed to and continues to be March 23, 2005...which is on account of the fingerprinting clearance that was communicated and noted on our apps. But thereafter there have been no updates. I called at the number available for fingerprinting check confirmation and the lady said that the results were ok and relayed the same day to VSC, however, I would need to call the FBI NNCP number to find out the status of the other security check that needs to occur. The case status on USCIS does not even reflect the fact that the fingerprinting stage has been crossed (for some folks it does). The FBI NNCP program as you know no longer entertains phone calls, so I emailed them after waiting till August 2005. As you must have read about the wait-time in other posts, there has been no response to the email...I am told there is a 6 month average wait time even for that. Anyway, persistent, I tried juggling through some random numbers in the FBI NNCP DC office and got through to the receptionist, who after assuring me that a 10 month delay wasn't unusual and that folks have to wait a couple of years sometimes, at least told me that the FBI analysts were working on the 2002-2003 files; now my PD is in July 2003 and my notice date is in 2004, so I don't know which one applies. Meanwhile, in October 2005, the India EB-2 category retrogressed to Nov 99 (Currently is at Jan 01 2002, thank god). Fortunately, the VSC processing time for I-485 went 30 days past my notice date so I was able to refer my case through the customer service at USCIS for an inquiry at VSC and of course got a response 45 days later that my case was delayed because of mandatory security check. Now the anticipated processing time for I-485 cases is 365-540 days at VSC for EB apps and for me that will be May 30 2006, if the security clearance comes through by then, it would be great and I am not sure if my PD wud be current by then too. Meanwhile have also made a FOIA request to FBI to get records on me in the Central Record system serving NNCP to see whats wrong. Frankly, keep inquiring on your case every 60 days after its past processing time, email that NNCP address, take help of ur state senator...those are the ways!!! Hope this helps, I really needed to vent tonite!!
If you find another novel way to obtain the information, please do not forget to share it with me...can use all the help I can get.
