Last Week @ NSC From Rupnet

[paulclarke1]

Approvals: June 2, July 1, Aug 2, Sept 2, Oct 4, Nov 4
RFE: June 1, July 1, Aug 0, Sept 1, Oct 1, Nov 3
Cases Worked: June 83.7%, July 87.8%, Aug 82.2%, Sept 84.6%, Oct 69.9%, Nov 44.5%.

Painfully slow progress @ NSC last week with only 6 new cases worked. (Approval on a case with no RFE or 1st RFE on case. This is the lowest activity level that I have seen since I started keeping track of this last Nov (including during the freeze). I Don't know what they are working on, but it does not seem to be AOS cases last week.

 

[haibo]

Hi:

Thanks for your tracking service. I am wondering if you have tracked the percentage of I-485 filers gets the RFE. It seems very common. Is this the standard practices right now?

Thanks again

haibo

 

[sivajhu]

paulclarke1:

First of all, thanks for your regular weekly updates.

Throughout last week, I noticed the fact that most of the NSC approvals were for cases with a prior RFE. In fact every single one of them (there are 17 approvals total on Rupnet, though your post seems to suggest 15), as indicated by Rupnet "last week approvals" link. Also, I hardly noticed any significant (fresh) RFE activity and your analysis confirms that.

On the contrary, except 3, all 31 of the approvals from VSC last week has been w/o any RFE.

Although it is good to see people waiting for anywhere from one to several months after an RFE to finally get approved, it would be nice if NSC had simultaneously been making progress on newer cases (fresh RFEs or approvals w/o RFEs). NSC certainly seems to be painfully slow as you indicated. At this rate, I am not sure if NSC would get to December 01 cases even by mid May.

KS