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Chutney,
Mine is one of the worst cases. It is just the timing of everything. My labor certification took almost 3 years (Mar/96-Jan/99). RIR was not born when I filed my case. My I-140 took 8 months as opposed to the regular 3 months.
When I filed labor, it was labor that used to take longest and I485 was a breeze(3-6 months, I -140 was just 2 months). When I filed I-485 the situation completely reversed on me, now Labor cert is a joke (under 6 months) and it is I485 that is worst.
Now timing of I485 could be more wrong. It was the time when INS removed backlogs for filing I-485. Result was a flood of 485s filed during that time because of which INS stopped sending FP notices to people who are from Oct99 through Mar-00.
The bottomline is that no matter whose fault it was, I was penalized.
I do not want to sound like a broken record here but probaboly no one knows the pain of people like me (I am sure there are others like me). For INS it is just another file.
Goodluck everyone!