245(i) is an act which allows you to apply for GC if you're illegal - expired visa etc, but are full-time employed. They "opened" it for about 4 months (could be wrong) back in 2001, and gave people chance to use it. I know people that got approved this way, already more than 6 months ago.
I don't know how would affect people, from my observations this kind of cases have most of the time RFEs, and are transferred to local office. Not mine, and I have no clue what the issue is. At the end, maybe there's no issue since they are processing cases with ND Feb 2002, and I am right there.
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I-140 AD 12/23/2001
I-485 RD 01/24/2002
FP1 03/23/2002
FP2 11/01/2003
3 EAD (don't have the dates) approved
No RFE
Tracker messages last updated 01/21/2003 regarding the FP1
No messages changes regarding FP2
No notification that case was transferred to local office