The processing dates should be equal to the Receipt Date on your Receipt Notice. For example: after you file I-485, the service center will send you a receipt notice, now the date on that notice is equal to the processing dates.
At least this is what I assume. I hope this helps.
I don't know...according to my attorney, the Notice Date is the date at which USCIS
acknowledge in a notice that they received the application. So, if they receive it today, and there is a
Receipt Date of today, it can take them from one day to God knows how many months to send a note acknowledging that they indeed receive it, which is a complete ludicrous. He also told me that the Notice date of my I-140 approval equals to the Notice Date of my I-485 because we filled concurrently. Now
that doesn't make sense at all, becuase the I-140 was approved 10 months after the
Receipt date...I don't know, this is just way too confusing.
The reason I started with this question is that I received a letter from TSC last week (I am one of those VSC applicants who were transferred to TSC few weeks ago) in response to an inquiry that I initiated to the service center on 1/4/07. I haven't heard from them for 45 days so I called again mid February. Few days later we received the note about the transfer.
So last week, this letter comes in response to my 1/4/07 inquiry....first of all, thanks for getting back to me three months later
. Second - they didn't even include
my application, they sent two letters for my wife and daughter. Third, the letter says that
Our review indicates that this case is acually within our current processing time
...so I looked on-line and TSC is now processing
September 2006...can you believe this? They are telling me that this is within processing time when my dates are (any date you wish to look at - PD, ND, RD...) 2002, 2003 and 2004 (the last one is January 2004). Some kind of nerve these people have to tell me that this is
within....unbelievable.