With my senator's help, my I-140 which has been pending since July, 2003 has been finally approved. My LC was filed in January 2002 and was approved in March 2003. But my lawyer never received the LC approval notice. In July 2003, my I-140 was filed with a copy of the LC approval. Surprisingly, in October 2004, after one and a half years, my lawyer received the LC approval notice in the mail (probably when DOL was boxing up cases to be sent to Backlog Reduction Centers, they came across the missing document and mailed it out). The LC approval notice was sent to NSC. But there was no progress on my case even after that. Recently I got in touch with Senator Debbie Stabenow and provided her the details about my case. Today I was pleasantly surprised to see that my I-140 was finally approved on May 4, 2005. Hopefully my I485 will also be approved soon.