October Approvals needed.

Congrats USA_GC2004 and good luck with the rest of the process...
I guess the speculations that october applications may be processed concurrently are probably wrong. Probably not a bad thing after all.
 
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ar13 said:
I guess the speculations that october applications may be processed concurrently are probably wrong. Probably not a bad thing after all.
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Yeah, I'd personally just as soon get my I-140 approved asap. I'm not concerned about waiting even 2 more years to get the I-485. I'm not planning on leaving my sponsoring company but I'd like to have AC21 available just in case -- if our company ends up in financial trouble before the I-140 is approved I'll be SOL. That is, assuming the I-140 goes through...

That said, I'm not getting my hopes up too much for a quick I-140 approval. Based on past trends, it sounds like the VSC might get through the bulk of the October cases within 1-3 months -- they still have plenty of Jul / Aug / Sep EB3 and Sep EB2 cases left to process based on the tracker (I no longer trust the immigrationwatch. com numbers).

And, there's always the possibility that they will switch / are in the process of switching to the new guidelines which will probably leave us in the dark as to when things will be processed for at least a while...

ETA
 
dashDurai said:
Jharkhandi:::

just found that USBCIS website is not allowing our scanning scripts more then 30 rows... hereafter this will be very hard to run the script.


dashDurai
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I'm not having any problems running scans of 250+ cases so far. Also, I'm running from dialup (at home now) so I just log in again, get a new IP and I can scan another 250 :).

BTW, I scanned the 10/31/03 cases (see earlier list) again. One new approval

EAC0402252448 Approved 5/25/2004 Approved/Completed 5/25/2004

but it was for a case that had an RFE previously. No other cases changed status.

I've found about 10 I-140 cases from 10/01/03 so far and per my earlier post from today (http://www.immigrationportal.com/showthread.php?t=128054), one of these was approved (no RFE) today.

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I-140 cases with ND of 10/01/03

OK, here's what I've got so far (see attached "search" spreadsheet).

This is the "raw" data for various scans that I did for EAC04001XXXXX in that it includes some cases which are already approved (including the no-RFE case which was approved earlier today) and it shows the ranges which I've scanned so far. This spreadsheet isn't meant to be executed -- it's just a place where I've been dropping scan results.

I can probably fill in the gaps over the next few days, but if someone else wants to scan some of those ranges and post the results I'll add those to the "pending" list and it will save me having to scan those ranges. I split the case ranges into blocks of 250 #'s so it should be possible to scan these without exceeding the limit.

We can drop any additional cases into the attached "pending" spreadsheet (which should probably only include non-approved cases with no RFE) and we can refer back to the "search" spreadsheet if necessary to see the original (as of the first time we scanned it) history for a case.

To scan the known pending I-140 cases with a ND of 10/01/03, load the "pending" spreadsheet (enable macros) and run the I-140 scan macro with 04001 as the date. This will cause the case numbers which are already present to be scanned / updated.

ETA
 
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Guys,
something going on Today my wife's I-485 last update date changed to 5/27/04 but mine remain same no update on I-140 too!

lets see for update.
 
dashDurai said:
Jharkhandi:::

just found that USBCIS website is not allowing our scanning scripts more then 30 rows... hereafter this will be very hard to run the script.


dashDurai
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Maybe your internet connection is thru a firewall/transparent router and someone else in your network is also trying to run scripts.

The IP address that uscis server gets is that of firewall/transparent router, getting impression that you have finished your quota of requests(300/day or so).

This is what happens in one of my networks.
 
ETA-GC said:
OK, here's what I've got so far (see attached "search" spreadsheet).ETA
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Found a few more cases for 10/01/03 then the status site started acting flaky on me. I now have a total of 16 cases (I-140's received but no RFE, don't know which, if any were filed with a concurrent I-485):

EAC0400151408 Received 10/1/2003 Received
EAC0400151422 Received 10/1/2003 Received
EAC0400151473 Received 10/1/2003 Received
EAC0400151529 Received 10/1/2003 Received
EAC0400151590 Received 10/1/2003 Received
EAC0400151689 Received 10/1/2003 Received
EAC0400151839 Received 10/1/2003 Received
EAC0400151871 Received 10/1/2003 Received
EAC0400151980 Received 10/1/2003 Received
EAC0400151999 Received 10/1/2003 Received
EAC0400152095 Received 10/1/2003 Received
EAC0400152177 Received 10/1/2003 Received
EAC0400152233 Received 10/1/2003 Received
EAC0400152239 Received 10/1/2003 Received
EAC0400152282 Received 10/1/2003 Received
EAC0400152315 Received 10/1/2003 Received


This is probably a decent enough sample to know when the VSC starts to hit this date in stride (if they don't switch to the Ohata guidelines any time soon). I can continue to check these periodically and let ppl know when this happens. Again, if anyone knows of additional cases for this day, lemme know and I'll add them to the list.

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Hi Jharkandi,
I have seen some folks having EAC04015 filed sometime in October 21, 22nd, 2003. Can you please run a scan on those EAC numbers to see how many they received on October 22nd, 2003.

I see EAC04001..... received on October 1st, and if its EAC04015, does it mean that it was received on the 15th working day of that particular month.

Appreciate your feedback.

Want GC Soon :)
 
Want GC Soon said:
Hi Jharkandi,
I have seen some folks having EAC04015 filed sometime in October 21, 22nd, 2003. Can you please run a scan on those EAC numbers to see how many they received on October 22nd, 2003.

I see EAC04001..... received on October 1st, and if its EAC04015, does it mean that it was received on the 15th working day of that particular month.

Appreciate your feedback.

Want GC Soon :)
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ETA-GC is the scan man! ETA-GC, will you?

I have heard one 140 case(concurrent filer) of Nov 06, 2004 from VSC being approved and FP done. Not sure if it is random or something is happening really! I don't know that person myself - got this info thru another member of this portal. That case is of original LC(no substitute), from Phili, software person, RIR, EB2. Also the person who passed me this info is not sure if Nov 06, 2004 is ND or RD, but he feels it is ND.
 
Jharkhandi said:
ETA-GC is the scan man! ETA-GC, will you?
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Gah -- it takes forever for me to run scans via my dialup and last night I started running into problems where even though I had logged off/on, I couldn't scan more than a few cases before getting blocked (possibly I somehow kept the same IP -- I don't know).

I might do a few more searches for 04001 cases and I can scan the cases that I already found for updates, but I can't commit to more than this :(.

Want GC Soon: yes, I believe that the xxx in EAC 04 xxx is the # of working days since (and including) October 1. The people with late September 03 NDs had something like EAC 03 260 which seems to reinforce this theory.

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can someone please point me to the place where the tracking tool is?? I will try to run from my machine. Appreciate, if you can also write few lines on how to use it.

Thanks,
aks
 
Want GC Soon said:
HI ETA,
Can you do a scan to find the number of cases on Oct 22, 2003.

Appreciate all your work.

Want GC Soon :)
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Hi Want GC Soon.

I wish I could but see earlier reply -- this would literally take me several hours (with logging off/on between each group of 250 cases). Plus I seem to be locked out right now for some reason...

My own ND is 10/23/03 and I haven't even scanned that day (I figured that by watching 10/01/03 cases we'd have a good enough idea / warning if / how the VSC was processing October 03 cases).

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Aug 15 Here

Guys ...I have my EB3 RD Aug 15 and no activity yet.

any idea..how much time it may take more.


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Keen4GC said:
Guys ...I have my EB3 RD Aug 15 and no activity yet.

any idea..how much time it may take more.


:confused:
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The easy answer is that nobody knows because the VSC is potentially changing their handling of I-140 cases as we speak (due to the "FO memo" from March 31, 2004).

If we assume the VSC is processing cases as before (prior to the last couple weeks this seemed to be the case) then per the 2003 tracker, there are still lots of Aug EB3 cases which haven't been approved yet and I'd say you could be approved either any day now or in 1-2 months or so.

If your case gets handled under the new guidelines, it's anybody's guess. I'd say this could range from an extremely optimistic 1-2 months (to get the I-140 and I-485 if you filed concurrently) to a (possibly) pessimistic 1-2 years from now.

Technically, you could have your lawyer / company initiate an inquiry since the VSC says they are more than 30 days past your ND... IMO there's not much point in doing this as we can clearly see they haven't got to a lot of the August cases yet (EB2 seems to be a bit further along maybe).

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Good to be optimistic

OCtober 2003 guys it is good to be optimistic but trust me only nominal July/August 2003 cases have been touched let alone october. Yes ! There are few random cases approved out of blues but it is some where around May/June 2003 .Do not trust CIS processing times which says october 1, for EB 2 cases.
 
pipladi said:
OCtober 2003 guys it is good to be optimistic but trust me only nominal July/August 2003 cases have been touched let alone october. Yes ! There are few random cases approved out of blues but it is some where around May/June 2003 .Do not trust CIS processing times which says october 1, for EB 2 cases.
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I don't think it's quite as bad as you say -- from the tracker about 50% of the Jul/Aug/Sep EB3 cases are approved and the EB2 guys are mostly done through August.

Your point about not being optimistic is well taken though -- I'm certainly assuming my own I-140 (ND 10/23/03) could be 1-3 months more (or longer if they change the processing approach).

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PS: I almost panicked when I checked the tracker just now and saw that hardly any cases were approved at all. Then I realized I was at the start of that thread -- I had the tracker from a few months ago :rolleyes:
 
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Here's a random sampling of a few October cases that I scan once in a while to monitor "progress".... you may want to include these in your tracking.

EAC0400151590 Received 10/1/2003
EAC0400151689 Received 10/1/2003
EAC0400151529 Received 10/1/2003
EAC0400251206 Received 10/2/2003
EAC0400251260 Received 10/2/2003
EAC0400251288 Received 10/2/2003
EAC0400351218 Received 10/3/2003
EAC0400351340 Received 10/3/2003
EAC0400351368 Received 10/3/2003
EAC0400451250 Received 10/6/2003
EAC0400451287 Received 10/6/2003
EAC0400451309 Received 10/6/2003
EAC0400451326 Received 10/6/2003
EAC0400451338 Received 10/6/2003
EAC0400551215 Received 10/7/2003
EAC0400551231 Received 10/7/2003
EAC0400551274 Received 10/7/2003
EAC0400551364 Received 10/7/2003
EAC0400551392 Received 10/7/2003
EAC0400651282 Received 10/8/2003
EAC0400651293 Received 10/8/2003
EAC0400651374 Received 10/8/2003
EAC0400851281 Received 10/10/2003
EAC0400851287 Received 10/10/2003
EAC0400851303 Received 10/10/2003
EAC0400851313 Received 10/10/2003
EAC0400851334 Received 10/10/2003
EAC0400851349 Received 10/10/2003
EAC0400851375 Received 10/10/2003
EAC0401151249 Received 10/16/2003
EAC0401451413 Received 10/21/2003
EAC0401451420 Received 10/21/2003
EAC0401451426 Received 10/21/2003
 
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