about PD and receipted date
Our priority date should be around the date of our original filing date. If you filed on 4/27/2001, the PD date should be couple of days after that date. The receipted date probably refers to the date the SESA enters into their computer system. Because of the huge piles of cases filed in April, 2001, it took them long time to just enter the cases into their computer system. I am not encouraged by the processing time movement into 4/30/2001. Actually 4/28 and 4/29 are weekends, that is why you see the jump. I was told by SESA that there are still a huge backlog on 4/30/2001 alone, if I remembered it correctly, it might represent 2,000 cases filed on that day. There are total of 7,000 cases filed in April 2001. If May cases can be processed at the end of the year, that is already a blessing.