I Think NSC Is Actually Doing What They Said
I am just as frustrated as everyone else with the fact that it is taking in excess of a year, to do what appears to be something less than 15 minutes worth of work.
However, it would seem from what I have gathered is in the past what would happen is that NSC would work a month of RD's and for one reason or another miss people. If you did not get approved within a couple of weeks of when they worked your month then you were in for a looooong wait.
When they moved their official processing date back to April (from August), they made the statement that they were working cases up to 120 days in front of that time.
If you follow the approvals in Rupnet, for the last couple of weeks, you will see approvals in June, July, August and Sept, even though they are officially processing June. This is consistent with their public statements. They seem in fact to be delivering.
This probably sucks if you are a Oct/Nov RD, but overall I think we are all better off if they clear up the backlog and then can do a more thorough job of processing each RD month.
If the number of filers on Rupnet is representative, then once they clear their backlog of cases, and assuming they do not reduce the resources allocated to I-485 adjudications, that a reduction in waiting times could be in the cards for 2003. That would be what they seem to be working towards.
I know it is not fashionable here to be supportive of the SC's, however thats my 2 cents worth.