atldolwait,
Don't worry to much about these LUD changes. So far (JULY) LUD changes have not lead to anything for any of us. There is defenitely something going on at TSC but there is no way we will ever find out whats going on.
Today I was reading Murthys weekly bulletin and there she states that they have started seeing 485 approvals in record times (3 months, 6 months etc). This is the part that really pisses me of. The processing has become so erratic that there is no telling when any of us EB3s may see our approvals. It might be in Oct 05 or a year from then. That is the worst part of this damn process. Most of the service centers have determined that fixing problems with older cases and trying to catch up with them is going to take to much time and is not worth the effort right now. The ironic part is that they messed up most of the older cases. They are not putting to many of their resourrces into older cases. Presently they (especially TSC) continue to process new cases in record times. They are more concenrned about improving their processing numbers and showing these of to Congress. Approving newer cases is improving their numbers and they could care less for the older cases that are not hurting their numbers. If they approve enough newer cases the older pending cases become less relevant to their all important processing numbers. Its sad that this process has been reduced to manipulating numbers but they do not care for what any of us have to go through.
Personally, TSC can't even approve my AP that has been pending for over 6 months. How can I expect them to get to my 485 anytime soon.
regards,
saras