I-485 November Case....

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davinder

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Folks I watch this site frequently but today is my first day that I am going to post the message here.

My I-485 information is:

RD: November 26, 2001
ND: December 03, 2001
FP: June 21, 2002
EAC # is: EAC02053XXXXX

Can anybody please let me know how long more it can take............Just the guess....

Thanks,
 
I am on the same boat with Rd 11/23/2001. Hopefully we can start to see a lot of Nov approvals beginning at Mar 1st. According to the processing speed for the last a few months, it takes three month to clear one month files. So I guess Nov cases will be processed starting from Mar 1st and ending at May 31st. Of course there is always no ending. I mean most of the cases will fit into the time frame I mentioned above.

Good luck for all of us.
 
October 2001 was an extremely heavy month.

I ran the scanner for a few days in October versus a few days in January and November. The average number of I485 on a day in October is 3-4 times the average number per day in January and 2-3 times the average number per day in November.

Therefore, I don't think that November will take 3 months to process - the majority of November I485s will probably be completed in about one month. January seems to be very light and could be finished in less than a month - maybe in just two weeks.

RD 01/28/2002
 
Don't set your expectation too high

Many people have looked at the statistics, run all kinds of extrapolation ... but there are always invisible and unpredictable factors such as mandates from the congress, sudden changes in priority and policy, etc...
 
November is half of Oct from INS statistic report. The trick is how many officiers they assign to 485 task. Recently it has been slowed down dramatically(beginning from 2/20).Don't know why, but hopefully March can be at normal speed. If at normal speed, November should be finished in 1.5 months.

INS is such a blackbox that you really don't know what's going on and that really pissed you off.
 
Don't expect INS to start in March

If your reasonable guess is that in March INS should start to process Nov, then you should add 2 more months. INS never works your way. The INS pace is slow recently, possibly there is some policy change which is not made public, like "US needs few immigration", or something like that. This policy cannot be made public, and must use other tricks to carry it out. Wait till April or May to see real flood of Nov approvals.
 
They can't afford huge backlogs. Right now it takes 16 months to process a case. The longer time it is, the more RFE, the more work they need to do. The longest allowed time is 540 days for a case. I have a creepy feeling that after all this, they have to give everyone green card because it takes too long, like, if the processing time over 2 years, you automatically get a temporary green card.
 
Automatic greencard after 2 years of pending? Are you dreaming?
With security checks tighter than ever before .. this won't happen!
What they will do is leave us in limbo and anxiety ...

BTW, there is no law requiring them to finish a case in 540 days. They can easily change it to 999 days with all kinds of excuse they can come up with..
 
It should not be more than three months..

Even if they process at the current rate I think Nov. should complete by the end of May at the most..
 
that's right..! the INS can come up with an excuses they can dream of. :confused:

top of it, they were/are supposed to be absorbed into the homeland security dept. i don't know if it has happened yet...:confused: if yes.. then things will become dead slow (if not stalled) for sometime so as they can settle down in the new dept.

let's see....

cheers.!
 
INS doesn't need to come up with execuse

Did INS inform you, or your lawyer, or the public of reasons why they are slow recently? INS doesn't even need an execuse to be slow. Slow is normal, and deadly slow is also normal, backlog is normal and backlog can bring INS more money from Congress.
 
I think gwpeng is right.
Backlog brings money to INS -- people will have to extend EAD, apply for a new AP, etc .... Sweet deal! :D
 
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