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Opening case after 10 months

Gurus, Question for you.

I had applied for my LC in Dec 2001, EB3 Non-RIR from Company A. After leaving the Company A in April 04, my Company A received the 45-day letter in Dec 05. At that time I was in India visiting my family. So, my employer didnt send the 45-day letter back to USCIS, by which my case was closed.

Now, I want to know:
If I can open the case again after 10 months.
If Yes, and If I can join the company A, can I continue my I-140 from Company A with the same labor.

Please help.
 
ETA # analysis

My guess is that the last 5 digits are running sequence numbers.

Let us divide the ETA as 3 parts
P-XXXXX-YYYYY

Part 1 - P or D
Part 2 - XXXXX - Part 2 (year and day of the year, when the case was entered into PBEC)
Part 3 - YYYYY - Running seq. no , gets reset to 00001 , when it reaches 99999. gets carried over between years.

If you analyze the ETA numbers, first digit (YYYYY) of part 3 is always greater or equal to, if Part 2 (XXXXX) is greater, (esp, the last 3 digits of the Part 2) when two ETA numbers are compared from the same year

Sample cases :

P-05011-1XXXX
P-05013-26XXX
P-05014-275XX
P-05031-45XXX
P-05032-458XX
P-05032-47XXX
P-05033-48XXX
P-05108-58XXX
P-05123-89XXX
P-05124-93XXX
P-05129-99XXX - Reset after this

P-05132-10XXX
P-05137-19XXX
P-05138-2XXXX
P-05144-38XXX
T-05146-44XXX
P-05161-62XXX
P-05165-6XXXX
P-05166-6XXXX

P-05193-1XXXX - Reset to start again with 1XXX
P-05207-44XXX

P-05223-02XXX - Reset again
P-05227-05XXX
P-05236-069XX
P-05241-151XX

P-06086-11XXX

This way you can estimate that every 28-30 working days, there were 100000 entered into the system
 
thyramax said:
My guess is that the last 5 digits are running sequence numbers.

Let us divide the ETA as 3 parts
P-XXXXX-YYYYY

Part 1 - P or D
Part 2 - XXXXX - Part 2 (year and day of the year, when the case was entered into PBEC)
Part 3 - YYYYY - Running seq. no , gets reset to 00001 , when it reaches 99999. gets carried over between years.

If you analyze the ETA numbers, first digit (YYYYY) of part 3 is always greater or equal to, if Part 2 (XXXXX) is greater, (esp, the last 3 digits of the Part 2) when two ETA numbers are compared from the same year

Sample cases :

P-05011-1XXXX
P-05013-26XXX
P-05014-275XX
P-05031-45XXX
P-05032-458XX
P-05032-47XXX
P-05033-48XXX
P-05108-58XXX
P-05123-89XXX
P-05124-93XXX
P-05129-99XXX - Reset after this

P-05132-10XXX
P-05137-19XXX
P-05138-2XXXX
P-05144-38XXX
T-05146-44XXX
P-05161-62XXX
P-05165-6XXXX
P-05166-6XXXX

P-05193-1XXXX - Reset to start again with 1XXX
P-05207-44XXX

P-05223-02XXX - Reset again
P-05227-05XXX
P-05236-069XX
P-05241-151XX

P-06086-11XXX

This way you can estimate that every 28-30 working days, there were 100000 entered into the system
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Wow, my number fits the pattern, P-05215-7XXXX.
 
Great studies for the numbers. My ETA case # fit that too.
Gurus, would anybody be kind to tell me how to get the screen shot many people mentioned here in the forum. I am new here and please forgive my ignorance.
 
It took about 130 days to enter the first 100k records, then
40 days for the next 100k then 30 days for the next 100k. Show how PBEC has improved its efficiency. The first 130 is a over kill.


thyramax said:
P-05011-1XXXX
P-05013-26XXX
P-05014-275XX
P-05031-45XXX
P-05032-458XX
P-05032-47XXX
P-05033-48XXX
P-05108-58XXX
P-05123-89XXX
P-05124-93XXX
P-05129-99XXX - Reset after this

P-05132-10XXX
P-05137-19XXX
P-05138-2XXXX
P-05144-38XXX
T-05146-44XXX
P-05161-62XXX
P-05165-6XXXX
P-05166-6XXXX

P-05193-1XXXX - Reset to start again with 1XXX
P-05207-44XXX

P-05223-02XXX - Reset again
P-05227-05XXX
P-05236-069XX
P-05241-151XX

P-06086-11XXX
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kopguy said:
I am in the same boat

CA-EB3 RIR
PD :9th Sept 2003
State approval Sept 2004
SF-DOL to Back Log center on Jan 21 2005.
ETA Case No - P-04302-xxxxx
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They might skip CA Cases at this point. I didn't see any CA approval lately.
 
Very good and to the point analysis. Well done, I might say.

thyramax said:
My guess is that the last 5 digits are running sequence numbers.

Let us divide the ETA as 3 parts
P-XXXXX-YYYYY

Part 1 - P or D
Part 2 - XXXXX - Part 2 (year and day of the year, when the case was entered into PBEC)
Part 3 - YYYYY - Running seq. no , gets reset to 00001 , when it reaches 99999. gets carried over between years.

If you analyze the ETA numbers, first digit (YYYYY) of part 3 is always greater or equal to, if Part 2 (XXXXX) is greater, (esp, the last 3 digits of the Part 2) when two ETA numbers are compared from the same year

Sample cases :

P-05011-1XXXX
P-05013-26XXX
P-05014-275XX
P-05031-45XXX
P-05032-458XX
P-05032-47XXX
P-05033-48XXX
P-05108-58XXX
P-05123-89XXX
P-05124-93XXX
P-05129-99XXX - Reset after this

P-05132-10XXX
P-05137-19XXX
P-05138-2XXXX
P-05144-38XXX
T-05146-44XXX
P-05161-62XXX
P-05165-6XXXX
P-05166-6XXXX

P-05193-1XXXX - Reset to start again with 1XXX
P-05207-44XXX

P-05223-02XXX - Reset again
P-05227-05XXX
P-05236-069XX
P-05241-151XX

P-06086-11XXX

This way you can estimate that every 28-30 working days, there were 100000 entered into the system
Click to expand...
 
Advice Requested

Friends

I have a question about EB2 vs EB3. Will you please answer?

My question is:

My employer filed my Labor petition in 2003 and that petition got approved yesterday Oct 18, 2006. I have Masters Degree from India and I have about 10 years of IT experience.

I saw in the Immigration Portal forum that all the people classify their cases as EB2 or EB3 even before their Labor is approved. I asked my company's legal person, who prepared the paperwork for my Labor Petition, as to what classification (EB2 or EB3) he filed me under. But he says that only when applying for I-140 do my case get classified and until Labor is approved there is neither EB2 nor EB3. I am not sure if that guy is right.

I would greatly appreciate if some kind hearted member in this forum could send an email to ababu27@hotmail.com and give some advice about this.

Sincerely
Babu.

---------------------------------------
Jul 2003 GA Labor filed
Oct 2003 Labor Forwarded to Federal
45 Day Letter never received
Case Certified October 18, 2006 (as per Backlog Website)
P_05013_xxxxx
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It is not what you have , it is about what the JOB requires. You may have Phd, but if the job requires only UG degree with 4 or less exp, then your job qualifies only for EB3.

Check your ETA section, look for Job requirments, that would say whether it is EB3 or EB2.

Your HR guy may be correct. there is a probability for DOL to reject the EB2 category while processing. Like you cannot ask for MS + 2 for a junior level position. That would be sent with NOF.So unless it is approved, it is not certain that your ETA is EB2 or EB3.

Check your ETA document.

I am not an attorney. this is just my thought.

Bob_Philips said:
Friends

I have a question about EB2 vs EB3. Will you please answer?

My question is:

My employer filed my Labor petition in 2003 and that petition got approved yesterday Oct 18, 2006. I have Masters Degree from India and I have about 10 years of IT experience.

I saw in the Immigration Portal forum that all the people classify their cases as EB2 or EB3 even before their Labor is approved. I asked my company's legal person, who prepared the paperwork for my Labor Petition, as to what classification (EB2 or EB3) he filed me under. But he says that only when applying for I-140 do my case get classified and until Labor is approved there is neither EB2 nor EB3. I am not sure if that guy is right.

I would greatly appreciate if some kind hearted member in this forum could send an email to ababu27@hotmail.com and give some advice about this.

Sincerely
Babu.

---------------------------------------
Jul 2003 GA Labor filed
Oct 2003 Labor Forwarded to Federal
45 Day Letter never received
Case Certified October 18, 2006 (as per Backlog Website)
P_05013_xxxxx
---------------------------------------
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good observation!

good observation! my case sequence no. starts with 00.

case no. added to the below list.


thyramax said:
My guess is that the last 5 digits are running sequence numbers.

Let us divide the ETA as 3 parts
P-XXXXX-YYYYY

Part 1 - P or D
Part 2 - XXXXX - Part 2 (year and day of the year, when the case was entered into PBEC)
Part 3 - YYYYY - Running seq. no , gets reset to 00001 , when it reaches 99999. gets carried over between years.

If you analyze the ETA numbers, first digit (YYYYY) of part 3 is always greater or equal to, if Part 2 (XXXXX) is greater, (esp, the last 3 digits of the Part 2) when two ETA numbers are compared from the same year

Sample cases :

P-05011-1XXXX
P-05013-26XXX
P-05014-275XX
P-05031-45XXX
P-05032-458XX
P-05032-47XXX
P-05033-48XXX
P-05108-58XXX
P-05123-89XXX
P-05124-93XXX
P-05129-99XXX - Reset after this

P-05132-10XXX
P-05137-19XXX
P-05138-2XXXX
P-05144-38XXX
T-05146-44XXX
P-05161-62XXX
P-05165-6XXXX
P-05166-6XXXX

p-05187-00XXX - Reset to start again with 0XXXX?
P-05193-1XXXX -
P-05207-44XXX

P-05223-02XXX - Reset again
P-05227-05XXX
P-05236-069XX
P-05241-151XX

P-06086-11XXX

This way you can estimate that every 28-30 working days, there were 100000 entered into the system
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Another May 2003 CA EB3 RIR

I have all fields filed out as of July
P-04295-2***8


suryam said:
PBEC processing is totally Random. We can't predict. My PD is June 2003 from CA, reached SFO DOL in 2004.. Online Status I still see as "In process"
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Well my husbands is 04289-21***
So if I understand this correct it was entered on the 289 th day of 2004 or more precisely October15, 2004.
What's up with the rest of the numbers?
His made it from SWA to regional in 6 months and was it not for this crazy PBEC system we would have been out of it long time ago. Because the old system was working pretty good here in PA. One of his collegues started the process exactly 1 year before we did in Feb 2003. His went from SWA to regional in August of 2003 and by the time we started in Feb of 2004, this guy had already had his medical done and fingerprinting. So we thought ours would be as smooth as this one. But gosh were we WRONG!!!!
I keep on checking the boards and see people getting certified for PD Jan 2004. We are Feb 2004, but I am not sure about this RIR or non-RIR.
Can someone explain that to me. All I know is that his employer had to run the ads in the different papers advertising the job.
Thanks.



thyramax said:
My guess is that the last 5 digits are running sequence numbers.

Let us divide the ETA as 3 parts
P-XXXXX-YYYYY

Part 1 - P or D
Part 2 - XXXXX - Part 2 (year and day of the year, when the case was entered into PBEC)
Part 3 - YYYYY - Running seq. no , gets reset to 00001 , when it reaches 99999. gets carried over between years.

If you analyze the ETA numbers, first digit (YYYYY) of part 3 is always greater or equal to, if Part 2 (XXXXX) is greater, (esp, the last 3 digits of the Part 2) when two ETA numbers are compared from the same year

Sample cases :

P-05011-1XXXX
P-05013-26XXX
P-05014-275XX
P-05031-45XXX
P-05032-458XX
P-05032-47XXX
P-05033-48XXX
P-05108-58XXX
P-05123-89XXX
P-05124-93XXX
P-05129-99XXX - Reset after this

P-05132-10XXX
P-05137-19XXX
P-05138-2XXXX
P-05144-38XXX
T-05146-44XXX
P-05161-62XXX
P-05165-6XXXX
P-05166-6XXXX

P-05193-1XXXX - Reset to start again with 1XXX
P-05207-44XXX

P-05223-02XXX - Reset again
P-05227-05XXX
P-05236-069XX
P-05241-151XX

P-06086-11XXX

This way you can estimate that every 28-30 working days, there were 100000 entered into the system
Click to expand...
 
If the employer had to post ads then your application is in RIR queue.

agron said:
Well my husbands is 04289-21***
So if I understand this correct it was entered on the 289 th day of 2004 or more precisely October15, 2004.
What's up with the rest of the numbers?
His made it from SWA to regional in 6 months and was it not for this crazy PBEC system we would have been out of it long time ago. Because the old system was working pretty good here in PA. One of his collegues started the process exactly 1 year before we did in Feb 2003. His went from SWA to regional in August of 2003 and by the time we started in Feb of 2004, this guy had already had his medical done and fingerprinting. So we thought ours would be as smooth as this one. But gosh were we WRONG!!!!
I keep on checking the boards and see people getting certified for PD Jan 2004. We are Feb 2004, but I am not sure about this RIR or non-RIR.
Can someone explain that to me. All I know is that his employer had to run the ads in the different papers advertising the job.
Thanks.
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Thanks for the info Thyramax

Thanks for the info Thyramax

thyramax said:
It is not what you have , it is about what the JOB requires. You may have Phd, but if the job requires only UG degree with 4 or less exp, then your job qualifies only for EB3.

Check your ETA section, look for Job requirments, that would say whether it is EB3 or EB2.

Your HR guy may be correct. there is a probability for DOL to reject the EB2 category while processing. Like you cannot ask for MS + 2 for a junior level position. That would be sent with NOF.So unless it is approved, it is not certain that your ETA is EB2 or EB3.

Check your ETA document.

I am not an attorney. this is just my thought.
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Almost after a month since I sent a request for case status update, I received a surprise response from PBEC this morning. Screen Shot showed pretty much everything filled up. But one field added from the last update is " Case Status : Final Review". Does this mean anything in PBEC world. Are there any missing fields. Find my Case details below.

ETA Case Number : P-05012-XXXXX
Priority Date : 03/13/2003
Processing Type : RIR
Case Source : REGION
Employer Name : XXXXXXXXXXXX
Business Activity: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Occupation Title:XXXXXXXXXXXXX
Occupation Code : XXXXXXXXX
Rate of Pay : XXXXXXXXxx
Prevailing Wage : XXXXXXXXXXXx
Alien Name : XXXXXXXXXXx
Visa Type : XXXXXXXX
Nationality or Citizenship:
Case Received Date: 07/02/2003
Processing Center: Philadelphia Backlog Elimination Center
Case Status : Final Review
----------------------------------------------------------------
RIR GA EB3
SWA PD: March 13,2003
DOL RD: July 02,2003
45 day letter Received/sent: February 2005
Case # P-05012-XXXXX
Case Status : RIR
 
GREENWAYS said:
Almost after a month since I sent a request for case status update, I received a surprise response from PBEC this morning. Screen Shot showed pretty much everything filled up. But one field added from the last update is " Case Status : Final Review". Does this mean anything in PBEC world. Are there any missing fields. Find my Case details below.

ETA Case Number : P-05012-XXXXX
Priority Date : 03/13/2003
Processing Type : RIR
Case Source : REGION
Employer Name : XXXXXXXXXXXX
Business Activity: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Occupation Title:XXXXXXXXXXXXX
Occupation Code : XXXXXXXXX
Rate of Pay : XXXXXXXXxx
Prevailing Wage : XXXXXXXXXXXx
Alien Name : XXXXXXXXXXx
Visa Type : XXXXXXXX
Nationality or Citizenship:
Case Received Date: 07/02/2003
Processing Center: Philadelphia Backlog Elimination Center
Case Status : Final Review
----------------------------------------------------------------
RIR GA EB3
SWA PD: March 13,2003
DOL RD: July 02,2003
45 day letter Received/sent: February 2005
Case # P-05012-XXXXX
Case Status : RIR
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This indicates that you might celebrate your Diwali (tomorrow) with approved labor. It is really close.
 
Hmmm

GREENWAYS said:
Almost after a month since I sent a request for case status update, I received a surprise response from PBEC this morning. Screen Shot showed pretty much everything filled up. But one field added from the last update is " Case Status : Final Review". Does this mean anything in PBEC world. Are there any missing fields. Find my Case details below.

ETA Case Number : P-05012-XXXXX
Priority Date : 03/13/2003
Processing Type : RIR
Case Source : REGION
Employer Name : XXXXXXXXXXXX
Business Activity: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Occupation Title:XXXXXXXXXXXXX
Occupation Code : XXXXXXXXX
Rate of Pay : XXXXXXXXxx
Prevailing Wage : XXXXXXXXXXXx
Alien Name : XXXXXXXXXXx
Visa Type : XXXXXXXX
Nationality or Citizenship:
Case Received Date: 07/02/2003
Processing Center: Philadelphia Backlog Elimination Center
Case Status : Final Review
----------------------------------------------------------------
RIR GA EB3
SWA PD: March 13,2003
DOL RD: July 02,2003
45 day letter Received/sent: February 2005
Case # P-05012-XXXXX
Case Status : RIR
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Greeways/other member - Can you tell me where in the Screen shot do you see the case status? In my screen shot from Sept, i see all the fields entered above except that there was no field for case status. However, when i called the 202# the guy told me that it was under final review, but that was 1.5 months ago :confused:
 
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