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The concurrent filing will definitely help reducing overall backlog of the INS adjudication performance. However, initially it is expected that the concurrent filing will inflate the number of EB-485 cases that the Service Centers will receive, temporarily adding further pressure to the current backlogs and delays in EB-485 processing. People are particularly worrying about its impact on 485 processing times in the Texas Service Center which is already experiencing close to two-year of backlog. The Bush 5-year Plan promised $100 million funding for processing times reduction each year, but the state of technology of the current Service Centers, particularly TSC, may not be quite ready to accomodate additional workloads. The Service Centers have been hiring new people during the past one year, but as usual the new hires need training and initially reveal a poor performance, creating a unusual number of RFEs. The AILA should address this issue to the INS.
We discussed yesterday two potential senarios of the processing of concurrently filed I-140/485 cases by the Service Centers: One is concurrent adjudication in one step and the other is bifurcation of adjudications, processing I-140 and EB-485 the way they have been handling upto now. However, each scenario has its own issue. For instance, one-step adjudication will help the INS to save time and workloads, but unless the processing time is reduced to six months, we have the issue of portability of I-140 after filing EB-485 180 days. On the other hand, bifurcation of adjudication of I-140 and EB-485 will not help much in reducing the workloads for the Service Centers and rather result in increasing workloads, but bifurcation will certain help in resolving the I-140 portability. This issue should also have to be addressed by the INS soon. It appears that the immigration system needs to accelerate technological improvement of processing system and increase automation of filing and processing systems as quickly as possible.
The concurrent filing will definitely help reducing overall backlog of the INS adjudication performance. However, initially it is expected that the concurrent filing will inflate the number of EB-485 cases that the Service Centers will receive, temporarily adding further pressure to the current backlogs and delays in EB-485 processing. People are particularly worrying about its impact on 485 processing times in the Texas Service Center which is already experiencing close to two-year of backlog. The Bush 5-year Plan promised $100 million funding for processing times reduction each year, but the state of technology of the current Service Centers, particularly TSC, may not be quite ready to accomodate additional workloads. The Service Centers have been hiring new people during the past one year, but as usual the new hires need training and initially reveal a poor performance, creating a unusual number of RFEs. The AILA should address this issue to the INS.
We discussed yesterday two potential senarios of the processing of concurrently filed I-140/485 cases by the Service Centers: One is concurrent adjudication in one step and the other is bifurcation of adjudications, processing I-140 and EB-485 the way they have been handling upto now. However, each scenario has its own issue. For instance, one-step adjudication will help the INS to save time and workloads, but unless the processing time is reduced to six months, we have the issue of portability of I-140 after filing EB-485 180 days. On the other hand, bifurcation of adjudication of I-140 and EB-485 will not help much in reducing the workloads for the Service Centers and rather result in increasing workloads, but bifurcation will certain help in resolving the I-140 portability. This issue should also have to be addressed by the INS soon. It appears that the immigration system needs to accelerate technological improvement of processing system and increase automation of filing and processing systems as quickly as possible.
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