My wife's 485 was approved today. I kid you not. She was a derivative asylee who got her asylum in 1999; other than the asylum grant date her timeline is exactly the same as mine. We mailed the original applications and the RFE's in the same envelopes. Of course, she did not have to do a I-602 like me.
Her status was 'unavailable' online last night with a LUD of 12/20, and I said to myself 'can't be.. must be some technical glitch or transfer to TSC' but sure enough, email at 5:45 AM, and online status also shows approved.
I am only 21 numbers behind her in the LIN queue, but being a male (not to mention my I-602) I suppose I am going through the full background checks.
This confirms my suspicion that CIS is doing some last-in, first-out processing. While I consider myself very fortunate that my wife was the beneficiary of that, I am truly sorry for all the people stuck in the hellhole of CIS backlog (including myself)
BTW, we received 3 copies of the following email.
-Floyd
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The following is the latest information on your case status
Receipt Number: LIN05221xxxxx
Application Type: I485 , Application to Register Permanent Residence or to Adjust Status
Current Status:
This case has been approved. On December 21, 2005, an approval notice was mailed. If 14 days have passed and you have not received this notice, you may wish to verify or update your address. To update your address, please call the National Customer Service Center at (800) 375-5283.
If you have questions or concerns about your application or the case status results listed above, or if you have not received a decision or advice from USCIS within the projected processing time frame*, please contact the National Customer Service Center.
National Customer Service Center (800) 375-5283.
*The projected processing time frame can be found on the receipt notice that you received from the USCIS.
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Her status was 'unavailable' online last night with a LUD of 12/20, and I said to myself 'can't be.. must be some technical glitch or transfer to TSC' but sure enough, email at 5:45 AM, and online status also shows approved.
I am only 21 numbers behind her in the LIN queue, but being a male (not to mention my I-602) I suppose I am going through the full background checks.
This confirms my suspicion that CIS is doing some last-in, first-out processing. While I consider myself very fortunate that my wife was the beneficiary of that, I am truly sorry for all the people stuck in the hellhole of CIS backlog (including myself)
BTW, we received 3 copies of the following email.
-Floyd
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*** DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS E-MAIL ***
The following is the latest information on your case status
Receipt Number: LIN05221xxxxx
Application Type: I485 , Application to Register Permanent Residence or to Adjust Status
Current Status:
This case has been approved. On December 21, 2005, an approval notice was mailed. If 14 days have passed and you have not received this notice, you may wish to verify or update your address. To update your address, please call the National Customer Service Center at (800) 375-5283.
If you have questions or concerns about your application or the case status results listed above, or if you have not received a decision or advice from USCIS within the projected processing time frame*, please contact the National Customer Service Center.
National Customer Service Center (800) 375-5283.
*The projected processing time frame can be found on the receipt notice that you received from the USCIS.
*** Please do not respond to this e-mail message.
Sincerely,
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
I was just gonna say that since the DV Lottery is to be eliminated, hopefully they'll have more time and people working on other types of I-485. I have a feeling the way they manage approvals is as follows - they added 174,000 asylum based I-485 from previous years to a backlog elimination but at the same time they decided to approve right away all new cases with ND 07/2005 and on, while working on the old cases (some people with ND 2000 are not approved yet). I am glad for the new applicants but it's certainly not fair for those people who have been waiting for years.