Spoke to very nice IO at NSC gave lot of info. 3rd IO from past 1 month.
Gave my usual info LINxxx etc.
myself: I had an infopass appointment and they said all my security checks are cleared and case looks good. They suggested to call NSC.
IO: OK Let me look at your case. Everthing looks good. Absolutely no problems. Sitting in an area where it is to be assigned to officer and waiting for Visa.
myself: I have seen lot of cases getting approved whose PD and I -485 RD are later than me. Mine is the old case.
IO is consistently saying she has no idea how they assigned the visa numbers, how they are processing them. It will take months to approve. I asked her whether there is way to send a email to the staging area people to look at my file. They don't have that option in the system.
She said they had a team meeting today. There she asked is there a way to tell the applicants what exactly going with the case. If the case looks good can they communicate with the officer in the staging area.
Management turned down all her ideas.
In the end I was joking with her that if I am lucky I get GC if not wait for ever. The system is not FIFO and it is lucky lottery system.
In the end she is consoling me don't worry you get it.
Atleast there are some IO at NSC who raise they voice and try to make the processing smooth and fair.
Just to recap 1st IO on 6th June: Assigned to an officer and will get an decision in another 120 days.
2nd IO Visa is not assigned. Call after Oct 1st.
Not sure whats going on at NSC. Each IO gives different info. Waiting for my lucky day.
Gave my usual info LINxxx etc.
myself: I had an infopass appointment and they said all my security checks are cleared and case looks good. They suggested to call NSC.
IO: OK Let me look at your case. Everthing looks good. Absolutely no problems. Sitting in an area where it is to be assigned to officer and waiting for Visa.
myself: I have seen lot of cases getting approved whose PD and I -485 RD are later than me. Mine is the old case.
IO is consistently saying she has no idea how they assigned the visa numbers, how they are processing them. It will take months to approve. I asked her whether there is way to send a email to the staging area people to look at my file. They don't have that option in the system.
She said they had a team meeting today. There she asked is there a way to tell the applicants what exactly going with the case. If the case looks good can they communicate with the officer in the staging area.
Management turned down all her ideas.
In the end I was joking with her that if I am lucky I get GC if not wait for ever. The system is not FIFO and it is lucky lottery system.
In the end she is consoling me don't worry you get it.
Atleast there are some IO at NSC who raise they voice and try to make the processing smooth and fair.
Just to recap 1st IO on 6th June: Assigned to an officer and will get an decision in another 120 days.
2nd IO Visa is not assigned. Call after Oct 1st.
Not sure whats going on at NSC. Each IO gives different info. Waiting for my lucky day.