Is the Approval Rate Speeding up?

[FairIsFair]

Would it be correct to say that there have been more approvals this month than previous months? There are currently 31 approvals posted on this forum for this month. That seems more than previous months to me. Any thoughts?

 

[ruxrux]

Yes, they are approving as many cases per week now as they used to approve per month - still not enough to reduce backlog significantly.

 

[140_takes_4ever]

The past few months have seen about 25 approvals a month, this month we have 31.

According to Project Kashmir, if I am not mistaken, CSC was approving 200 odd cases a month, going by the above numbers I would put the approval for the current month around 250 cases. We need to reduce the backlog from 1.2 million, which needs atleast 2000 approvals a month, a 10 fold increase, to make any significant dents.

Join the fax campaigns and help us put pressure on INS to reduce the backlogs.

 

[ECGC]

We are asking for a regular meal and they are giving us popcorn!!

 

[hussein]

I think they are giving you corn and you have to make pocorn
Can someone tell me: Are they like ignoring 02-062 series or something.....

 

[gopher97]

Originally posted by 140_takes_4ever
We need to reduce the backlog from 1.2 million,

140,

Where did u get the 1.2 million from? 1.2 million I485 cases at CSC seems unrealistic to me.

 

[140_takes_4ever]

Originally posted by gopher97
Where did u get the 1.2 million from? 1.2 million I485 cases at CSC seems unrealistic to me.

Sorry for the confusion. They are two different things, CSC is processing approximately 200+ cases every month. And the total backlog at INS is 1.2 million cases for 485 adjustments.

Here is a USCIS Blurb about 1.2 million backlogs:

http://uscis.gov/graphics/shared/aboutus/statistics/msrnov03/BENEFIT.HTM

 

[kashmir]

http://immigrationportal.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=730265#post730265

The CSC has been receiving about 3,000 I-485 cases every month in average.

Don Neufeld's goal is:
"to reduce the processing time for Adjustment of Status applications
to 12 months or less by the end of September 2004".

This means the CSC has to process 21 months of I-485 applications filed between Jan 2002 and Sep 2003 during next 6 months.
So, the CSC plans to process 3,000 x 21 / 6 = 10,500 cases / month in average for next 6 months.

The CSC has been processed about 350-400 cases per month for last one year.
Even though the CSC has approved 200+ cases last week, it is far less than his goal.
The resource increase must be SIGNIFICANT as he wrote to Anna Eshoo.
This is why we have to keep putting pressure on him so that he would keep his promise.