Philadelphia Backlog Elimination Center Tracking

spidey said:
juntha

I believe the response is affirmative.
Only cases that made it to Regional and were TR from 2001 if my deduction is correct, this is based on my conversation from Friday of last week with the person at the PBEC.

She said, they are working on Apr 2002 TR cases now and 2001 RIR cases. Of course they cannot be working on adjucating TR cases that have NOT completed supervised recruitment. And most cases (not all mind you) that finished supervised recruitment should be in BEC.

Also, I remember one of the very first bits of information we had received from the BEC's was that they would work on their respective REgional case loads before they take up anything else.
While this may be unfair for many, I suspect the rationale was that all Regional cases had to be older than SWA cases; of course when the entire country is taken into account, we know this is not accurate and therefore unfair. But who said life was fair :mad:

So - I believe PBEC is working on cases that made it to regional and the dates they are working on are the PD's mentioned before.

But we'll see how accurate this information is. Information has been wrong and BEC's have changed course many times before.

But didn't we also hear from someone that Philly Regional cases would be processed first. The rescuing mission has become a recovering one now.
 
well, if you said there is 138 employee in Philly. Then out of this 138, 10 security guards, 5 human resources, 10 secretaries, 5 directors, 5 director's assistants, 2 parking reinforcement, etc. :p Just a guess!
 
Spidey - Does Old Fed DOL Cases take precedence over SWA's?

Spidey,
Do u mean RIR / TR from Philly (Old Fed DOL) will be processed b4 State SWA's (RIR / TR) @ PBEC?

Well I don't see any movement @ PBEC at all. They still keep saying 'We r into Data Entry Phase now and will start adjudicating once it is completed'?

Anyway let's hope for the best.

Iam tired of waiting both physically & mentally.



spidey said:
juntha

I believe the response is affirmative.
Only cases that made it to Regional and were TR from 2001 if my deduction is correct, this is based on my conversation from Friday of last week with the person at the PBEC.

She said, they are working on Apr 2002 TR cases now and 2001 RIR cases. Of course they cannot be working on adjucating TR cases that have NOT completed supervised recruitment. And most cases (not all mind you) that finished supervised recruitment should be in BEC.

Also, I remember one of the very first bits of information we had received from the BEC's was that they would work on their respective REgional case loads before they take up anything else.
While this may be unfair for many, I suspect the rationale was that all Regional cases had to be older than SWA cases; of course when the entire country is taken into account, we know this is not accurate and therefore unfair. But who said life was fair :mad:

So - I believe PBEC is working on cases that made it to regional and the dates they are working on are the PD's mentioned before.

But we'll see how accurate this information is. Information has been wrong and BEC's have changed course many times before.
 
What is a TR?

More approvals seen from DBEC. Someone filed sep.02 got approved.

When are we seeing anything from PBEC?
 
TR = non-RIR

I know TR means non-RIR, where the recruitment is done under the supervision of DOL.
TR=Traditional Recruitment?

Beam said:
More approvals seen from DBEC. Someone filed sep.02 got approved.

When are we seeing anything from PBEC?
 
Stewart__Rogers said:
Thanks for the letter WaitingonLC. Correct me if I am wrong but the 45-day letter does not contain the new case number. right?

Thanks for your help and sharing ur experience.

Stewart

45 days will have new case number.The number next to the ETA Case number is your new case number.
 
Retrogression

1. Disaster Hits the EB-3 Category; Could EB-2 Be Next?

Absent Congressional action, employment-based (EB) immigration to the U.S.
is flirting with disaster.

Almost 30 years ago, when I became an immigration attorney, there were only
two EB categories, the 3rd (professional) and the 6th (nonprofessional)
preference categories. For some countries, the 3rd preference category was
backlogged over a dozen years. The trick then was to switch professionals
from the 3rd category into the less-backlogged 6th category. This enabled
hundreds of our clients to obtain green cards in 90 days or less.

The big change came with the passage of the Immigration Act of 1990. The
number of EB categories expanded from two to five (EB-1 Priority Workers, EB-2
Advanced Degreed Professionals, EB-3 Professionals and Other Workers, EB-4
Special Immigrants and EB-5 Investors). The number of persons who could
immigrate under the EB categories more than doubled from 54,000 to 140,000
annually.

The new system contained one major flaw. If less than 140,000 EB workers
and their spouses and children obtained permanent residence in a fiscal year
(October 1 - September 30), the numbers were lost forever, and backlogs
developed in future years.

This was not a problem in the early 1990s as the INS processed most
applications for adjustment of status in 90 days or less. Since most EB
applicants are already working in the U.S. in temporary working status, most
of the processing is done stateside by the INS.

However, with the passage of section 245(i) in 1994, the birth of the World
Wide Web in 1995 and the subsequent dotcom explosion, the H-1B cap was raised
from 65,000 to 115,000 and again to 195,000. Hundreds of thousands of
computer professionals as well as business professionals, healthcare
professionals, teachers, scientists, engineers and accountants all applied for
permanent residence.

INS could not keep up with the ever-increasing demand for green cards, and
multi-year backlogs developed in the EB-3, EB-2 and even the EB-1 category.
In 2000, former President Clinton signed the American Competitiveness in the
21st Century Act (AC-21) which, among other things, allowed over a quarter
of a million "lost" EB adjustment applications to be "recaptured". See

http://shusterman.com/toc-h1b.html#1

AC-21 saved EB immigration, especially after September 11, 2001 when INS
processing of EB adjustment applications ground to a virtual halt. The
combination of AC-21 and the INS slowdown in application processing had a
strange, but predictable, effect on the State Department's monthly Visa
Bulletin. Since so few EB green cards were issued by the INS in 2001-2003
despite hundreds of thousands of additional numbers provided by AC-21, all of
the EB categories became "current". As more and more labor certifications and
I-140 visa petitions were approved, INS was deluged with hundreds of thousands
of EB adjustment applications, most of which remained unadjudicated at Service
Centers.

In 2004, the number of approvals increased dramatically. This resulted in a
three-year "retrogression" in the EB-3 category for persons born in India,
China and the Philippines on January 1, 2005.

In early 2005, the CIS approved over 20,000 EB adjustments monthly. This
number increased to 30,000 per month in the spring. As a result the EB-3
category ran out of numbers and became "unavailable" starting on July 1, 2005,
not just for some persons, but for everyone. This means that if you are in
the EB-3 category, you can not apply for permanent residence until October 1st
at the earliest. If your EB-3 adjustment application is currently pending,
you will not be receiving your green card this summer.

What happens to the EB-3 category on October 1st, the beginning of the new
fiscal year? This is anybody's guess, but we do know that all of the green
cards "recaptured" by AC-21 have already been used up. Just as the H-1B cap
fell from 195,000 to 65,000 last October, the total number of EB green cards
will fall from 249,000 this fiscal year to 140,000 in the coming fiscal year.
And just like the 20,000 extra H-1B visas which were added by Congress this
year (which are only available to persons with advanced degrees from U.S.
universities), Congress added 50,000 extra green cards (which are only
available to persons in the Schedule A category - registered nurses, physical
therapists and persons of exceptional ability). We believe that these extra
visas will be used over a period of three years. In all probability, persons
in the EB-3 category will face multi-year retrogressions. This means that
only people with extremely old EB-3 priority dates will be able to adjust
their status.

Since the CIS can no longer approve EB-3 adjustment applications, Service
Centers have turned their attention to processing adjustment applications in
the EB-2 category (persons of exceptional ability or those whose jobs require
advanced degrees). The predictable result will be that the EB-2 category, at
least for persons born in India and China, will soon retrogress, possibly as
early as August 1st. We will know for sure when the August Visa Bulletin is
released in mid-July.


Source: Shusterman newsletter. www.shusterman.com
 
Hi,

PD : May 2004
SWA : Harrisburg, PA

Did any one with similar PD from harrisburg get their 45 day letter?

Thanks.
 
Any Latest news from PBEC

Hi,

My Case - VA EB2, RIR 7/2002. State Approval 08/2002. 45 days letter --> 02/2005.

Its been 3 years and seems to me that it will minimum 1 more year to get it through PBEC. April 2001 almost killed the process first there was huge delay at state level now its PBEC. By the time it will go through there will be huge delay at 485!


Thanks
 
spidey and others ?

U all say that all TR cases for 2001 that made it to regional are approved .. mine is may-2001 TR case recvd in Regional in feb 2004... recvd 45 day letter and replied in mar-05 .... should i be worried ?
 
Dont Worry

shalinilulla said:
U all say that all TR cases for 2001 that made it to regional are approved .. mine is may-2001 TR case recvd in Regional in feb 2004... recvd 45 day letter and replied in mar-05 .... should i be worried ?

Mine is PD April 2001 , Regional Dec2004 , 45 days letter Mar09 and no certification yet :( :(
 
Update from my lawyer ...

First of all ...has this thread been moved or it is the wait of LC doing its magic to me :confused:

I spoke to my lawyer today ( cant believe he actually spent 15min with me). Nothing specific, but still wannna share with you guys. I asked him about the discrepency between DBEC and PBEC. He says those two centers are working together to be in sync ( which may mean more delay). He also told me that that both centers are supported by same contracting company, so they can not be very different.

He is also seeing some approvals from Apr'01. As far as my case is considered he is saying it can be anywhere between 3months to 9 months :(

I know its nothing new and encouraging ..but whatever I could get out of him.
 
krish68 said:
Is there any update on bringing our problems to the media like CNN, FoxNews, News Papers etc. :confused:

Please use "AILA take action" page to send your story or letter (I have some sample letters listed out) to media. It might take you less than 5 minutes to send it. Everyday we see lot of news on illegal-legal immigration (go to google news and search for "immigration" and news source "U.S."). Its about time we will have big story on labor backlogs.

Do you work, collectively it will make huge difference.
 
USCISisMockery said:
Please use "AILA take action" page to send your story or letter (I have some sample letters listed out) to media. It might take you less than 5 minutes to send it. Everyday we see lot of news on illegal-legal immigration (go to google news and search for "immigration" and news source "U.S."). Its about time we will have big story on labor backlogs.

Do you work, collectively it will make huge difference.
Thanks so much. I checked out Mockery's page this weekend and it is very helpful informations and he updated it frequently. I strongly encourage our Philly folks to check it out or send your own story there, I mean if you cares about the situation and don't want to wait silently.
 
3 to 9 months

that is a wide range ....

atyagi73 said:
First of all ...has this thread been moved or it is the wait of LC doing its magic to me :confused:

I spoke to my lawyer today ( cant believe he actually spent 15min with me). Nothing specific, but still wannna share with you guys. I asked him about the discrepency between DBEC and PBEC. He says those two centers are working together to be in sync ( which may mean more delay). He also told me that that both centers are supported by same contracting company, so they can not be very different.

He is also seeing some approvals from Apr'01. As far as my case is considered he is saying it can be anywhere between 3months to 9 months :(

I know its nothing new and encouraging ..but whatever I could get out of him.
 
What in sync !!

they are totally asynchronous !! No relationship !! They are false !!


How can they be in sync ?
 
Can anybody can tell when are we getting Labor cleared-NY

My labor was applied in 03/29/02; haven't got the labor cleared. I am on 8th Year Extension..... Help God... Help us.....
 
Why Attorneys are doing nothing

Typical scenario using my attorney legal fees:

Year 2001 H1b: filing fees $ 1,500+ legal fees $ 3,500 + premiun process $ 1,000 = $ 6,000

year 2004 H1b renewal= legal fees $ 2,500+ $ 500 filing fees= $ 3,000

year 2003 RIR labor cert fees+ $ 5,000

year 2005 PERM labor cert= $ 5,000 ( i did not apply yet)
after year 6, every year additional renewal
Thats why attorneys are doing nothing, why kill golden egg hen.

If you know a inmigrant office with better legal fees , (Florida) please let me know
 
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