Anyone know how reliable the data at www.immigrationwatch.com is?
I wanted to track the VSC's progress with 10/03 I-140 cases so I looked at the % approved for each of the days in October using immigrationwatch.
The results make sense (decreasing consistently from 30.71% for October 01 to 24.28% for October 31 -- see attached spreadsheet) but I'm a little skeptical. While I expected to see an overall trend of decreasing %, I would have expected a bit more "randomness" in the numbers because the # cases received and the # cases approved should vary quite a bit for any given day.
Anyone know how and how often immigrationwatch updates it's numbers? (I tried emailing them with no result so far). Maybe the numbers I'm seeing have been "extrapolated" somehow based on a small / out of date sample?
Ideally, if the data is fairly reliable and up to date wrt the actual USCIS data, I could update my results on, say, a weekly basis, and we should hopefully start to see the %'s climb as the VSC gets to more 10/03 cases.
[ Alternatively, if, as has been suggested elsewhere, the VSC is switching to the new guidelines as of 10/01/03 cases, then these numbers won't climb as quickly since concurrently filed I-140 / I-485 cases won't be approved until the I-485 is ready. It seems reasonable to assume that this would mean a delay of at least several months given that fingerprinting etc. hasn't even been ordered for these cases yet... ]
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I wanted to track the VSC's progress with 10/03 I-140 cases so I looked at the % approved for each of the days in October using immigrationwatch.
The results make sense (decreasing consistently from 30.71% for October 01 to 24.28% for October 31 -- see attached spreadsheet) but I'm a little skeptical. While I expected to see an overall trend of decreasing %, I would have expected a bit more "randomness" in the numbers because the # cases received and the # cases approved should vary quite a bit for any given day.
Anyone know how and how often immigrationwatch updates it's numbers? (I tried emailing them with no result so far). Maybe the numbers I'm seeing have been "extrapolated" somehow based on a small / out of date sample?
Ideally, if the data is fairly reliable and up to date wrt the actual USCIS data, I could update my results on, say, a weekly basis, and we should hopefully start to see the %'s climb as the VSC gets to more 10/03 cases.
[ Alternatively, if, as has been suggested elsewhere, the VSC is switching to the new guidelines as of 10/01/03 cases, then these numbers won't climb as quickly since concurrently filed I-140 / I-485 cases won't be approved until the I-485 is ready. It seems reasonable to assume that this would mean a delay of at least several months given that fingerprinting etc. hasn't even been ordered for these cases yet... ]
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