Friends,
Kindly bear with me for posting a yet another hypothesis on why negligible number of approvals since last 7-8 days. I hate to indulge in this kind of self-consoling gestures, but may be, that's what we need now for the sake of our blood-pressures!!
Before audit began, INS had pre-distributed workload so that processing could continue at "usual" speed. During audit no file movements were to take place though RFEs would continue. The period of audit was almost like current period - negligible approvals. During audit, officers adjudicated all assigned files and that's why immediately after audit, we saw a good number of approvals before the current famine began. Now since audit is over and internal file movements have begun, they should now be in process of work-load re-distribution or might just have assigned new audited files for adjudication to the officers and, say, officers started evaluating cases again sometime this week. Adjudicated files take time (say a couple of days) for generating approval notices and RFEs. AVM/online status would get updated only after generation of approval notices and RFEs - hopefully, later this week they will be generating notices! That means new approvals should start trickling down from next week onwards or from Friday this week onwards. The processing speed may not be as much as we saw immediately in few post-audit days though.
They should really concentrate on pending Aug/Sept/Oct cases; only then real November can start (may be around/after second/third week next month? I would be happy to be wrong if they start earlier though).
It's probably a better idea to extend EAD/AP for borderline RD cases before it's too late.
Bottonline: Try to invent ways of feeling less helpless and spend more time on job or on job-search sites than this one (easier said than done).
Best wishes,
Jigesh
Kindly bear with me for posting a yet another hypothesis on why negligible number of approvals since last 7-8 days. I hate to indulge in this kind of self-consoling gestures, but may be, that's what we need now for the sake of our blood-pressures!!
Before audit began, INS had pre-distributed workload so that processing could continue at "usual" speed. During audit no file movements were to take place though RFEs would continue. The period of audit was almost like current period - negligible approvals. During audit, officers adjudicated all assigned files and that's why immediately after audit, we saw a good number of approvals before the current famine began. Now since audit is over and internal file movements have begun, they should now be in process of work-load re-distribution or might just have assigned new audited files for adjudication to the officers and, say, officers started evaluating cases again sometime this week. Adjudicated files take time (say a couple of days) for generating approval notices and RFEs. AVM/online status would get updated only after generation of approval notices and RFEs - hopefully, later this week they will be generating notices! That means new approvals should start trickling down from next week onwards or from Friday this week onwards. The processing speed may not be as much as we saw immediately in few post-audit days though.
They should really concentrate on pending Aug/Sept/Oct cases; only then real November can start (may be around/after second/third week next month? I would be happy to be wrong if they start earlier though).
It's probably a better idea to extend EAD/AP for borderline RD cases before it's too late.
Bottonline: Try to invent ways of feeling less helpless and spend more time on job or on job-search sites than this one (easier said than done).
Best wishes,
Jigesh
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