More Bad news for the old timers

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Sorry to be the one posting it here - In case its not already been posted


http://www.murthy.com/chatlogs/chat0510.html

Chat User : Good evening, Murthy. With the new I-140/I-485 procedure as of April 30th, what does this mean for pending CP I-140 cases?

Attorney Murthy : No one knows for sure, as we have written in our MurthyBulletin article, since it is too early to tell. We hope that it does not mean putting existing cases on the slow track, but that seems to be the plan. We had a meeting on Friday, May 7th, 2004 with a senior USCIS official in Washington, D.C. where I was speaking on labor certifications with the Chief of the U.S. Department of Labor for the U.S. The USCIS official mentioned that the game plan is to catch up and bring along all newly filed cases so that they are processed within the 180-day timeframe and then slowly go back to playing catch-up with the previously filed cases. That is their backlog reduction plan.
 
I don't know what to say... How stupid is that! Meaning, they think that people who have already waited long enough can wait for some more time, but people who have filed recently will have the 'feel-good' feeling about INS backlog reduction plan!!
 
Don't know how much of it is true and how much BS! Haven't been seeing too many concurrent approvals in the near past. Scan the approval thread for confirmation. I still feel that they will put more IIO's on older cases and fewer on newer ones. But since new cases all have current FP's and employment information in most cases will be current, there won't be too many RFE's and approvals might seem faster. But current trend definitely indicates that INS is clearing out old cases.

Have hope people, and if you haven't done so already do something to speed up the entire process for old cases. If you don't help your selves, NO ONE WILL!
 
A check on recent queries (fax/mail) to CSC reveals that no case is being approved on applicant’s request unless it is behind JIT (especially FP expiry). Generally, applications being approved are with a few months of JIT. Although there are some cases quite far from JIT being approved, these are a small percentage.
TSC on the other hand, seems to approve a case where FP is about to expire if the applicant brings it to their attention.
I have seen some post talking about conflict of new pilot of concurrent adjudications being against internal USCIS rules, It even gives the rule number. I haven't been able find it later, can some who knows, post the link? (Not sure as to which forum it was posted in. I searched using the keywords I could thing of) I am trying to collect some legal basis for fighting for FIFO enforcement.
BTW, Oct 2004 is fast approaching and meeting the goal of reducing the back log to a year is out of question, however, will CSC be able to show that backlog is *not growing* as seen at the end of the year? to do that, JIT will have to move to Dec 2002!
 
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