cantstandit
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StressTestInUSA said:
I agree it won't hurt to write to those people, but I can tell you letters won't do much. I had a friend of mine (American, lawyer from Harvard) write a long letter to the secretary of the DOL (the Asian woman, don't remember her name).
I listed all the problems, and he wrote the letter using the concept of "I'm an American citizen concerned with immigration and waste of my tax dollars".
The DOL replied (through an assistant) with a personal letter, basically explaining their efforts to enter the data, and clear the backlog in 2 years, yada yada yada.
The explanation for the FIFO problem was that they had promised "processing using FIFO, not completion using FIFO", meaning that, for example, my application (PD 11/2002) indeed started before another from 2003, but that one could be adjudicated before mine, because of the how the cases are processed !! for example, a NOF or RFE would delay one application, while the other would continue.
That could make some sense if the delay was about 1 month, but when we see cases from 2003 being approved in Dallas while we're stuck in Philly, we realize it's total BS.
I think I'm gonna ask him to write again, now that they've supposedly completed the temporary data entry.
My main question is: if BEC now knows which applications are from 2002, 2003, etc, they could focus on processing 2001, 2002, without waiting to do full data entry for 2003, 2004 !!! it makes no sense to put everybody on hold while they do the full data entry.
bottomline: yes, let's write to them, but don't expect any procedural changes based solely on that.
