Why don't they just tell us things like this, either on the status web page that now says '900-999 days', or trough a meeting with AILA, or through the 1-800 number when people call to ask why processing is so slow?
Before this, based on the information they gave us, all we could do is assume that the '900-999 days' number that we get now would be '1265-1364 days' next year... Everything else is pure speculation.
Now at least it seems to us that there really is a tangible _reason_ for the unprecedented tremendous slowdown, so we can at least hope that as soon as the reason clears up the processing speed should be back to what it was earlier. If you just read the other thread, then you can see how many people are actually relieved when they heard this news.
Also, reading the many posts in this forum, the disinformation has generated a lot of badly aimed anger, for example directed at the workers in the service centers doing the adjunctiations. If this rumor is true, then they do not deserve to be scalded for being lazy or plain slow, because given this new information, that is really not fair to them.
Why did they keep us in the dark wondering? Why?