Suggestions for Mr. Rajiv Khanna

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rsrgc

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Mr. Rajiv Khanna

Recently I have noticed that monica@immigration.com has posted a message asking for suggestions to improve the immitracker.

Yes I would like to give my suggestions. And I request you to give your viewpoints also. By this I would like to open a dialogue with either you and/or an individual from your office or a team of people who would not only review suggestions but also update us as to what is your opinion about our suggestions.

You have asked us to give suggestions – Yes I shall do so but I do not want to give suggestions to a blank wall and do not know if my suggestions have created an effect.

The greatest compliment that an individual can have is to feel that his work/suggestion has been heard and appreciated and has been implemented. I would feel it to be a great honor that I have made an effect.

What is the reason that your immitracker does not have any data compared to the immitracker of ciba or pcee. I hope that you have seen both their trackers.

In case you have not seen their tracker please respond and I shall provide you the links.

Hoping to open a dialogue with you or one or more of your staff.

Respectfully

Rsrgc
 
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We are listening. Your message appears to be a bit angry:-). I am not sure if we have given you any reason to doubt that we are listening. Nevertheless, please give your opnion and suggestions. Also give us the links to the trackers.

Let me make one thing clear though. We are not in competition with any one. Nor is it a concern whose tracker is populated and whose is not. My aim is to provide the best possible forum we can for the benefit of the people. If we make money in the process - great. If not, I am not concerned.

Everone who comes here is a welcome guest - including other lawyers, as long as we are working toward the same goal.

We appreciate your time.

Regards. Rajiv.
 
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Well – The dialogue continues.

Dialogue is different from monologue.

The links to the trackers are

a) http://pc485.tripod.com
b) http://pceegcee.tripod.com/
c) http://www.geocities.com/ciba_2/I485/WebCSC.htm
d) http://www.immitracker.com

The a and b are the same website but because of bandwidth problems site b is constantly going down.

Sorry – If I sounded angry – I guess my case number is WAC-01-270 which is nearing approval and I am waiting patiently/impatiently at times.

I apologize

Also I hope that apart from reading my message that You will respond and post your viewpoints also.

There are three major areas and some minor ones which make up a good system.

Major areas

a) Input screen
b) Data Collection
c) Reports

Minor areas being speed, fonts, collection methods, timely updates, improvements etc etc

B ) Data Collection
There are different methods of collecting data
i) Where the work is assigned to people and they read all messages and collect data. PCee is currently doing that in the CSC section.
Good points – He is painstaking and thorough.
Negative points - Imagine if an individual(s) has to do that for all the sections CSC,NSC,TSC,VSC and for all other areas like after green card, H1, Labor,I-140, Citizenship etc etc.
ii) Where the work is done by the individuals themselves – They are presented an input screen and they update their own data.
        Good Points – The initial money and time is spent on development and a little more on maintaining the tracker. But people generally do not punch in their data because either the input screen is not good or too much effort or it is buggy or they do not know about it.

Suggestion - You could try two techniques - One, when the person reaches your website a popup screen asks him if he would like to update his records in the tracker and or second - Just like you have a disclaimer at the top of every page You could provide a link to the input screen of your tracker.

Waiting for your response
 
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Cool. I will have Monica and a couple of other team members go over this and your suggestions.

Monica, one immediate measure, let people know if they send you the files at monica@immigration.com, you will post the info on our site. That way, the bandwidth problem is gone. Once we implement the Links Software, people can do it themselves.

One more point in addition Monica. I want our team members to post our experience also. We have clients in all 50 states. We pretty much know every city in USA. So if we can somehow get our gang to contribute also, it would be really good. You can do the System Analysis plus development or better still we get the development done from BG\'s team. You supervise.

Monica, discuss these ideas with me tomorrow. If you cannot find me, call me on my cell phone at 1:45 PM.
 
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To Mr. Rajiv Khanna

I have sent my email id to Monica

If possible we could communicate through email and maybe u could try beta testing on a few of us like
maybe on PCee and myself or maybe a few others also.
 
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I am lost! What is the aim of these multitude of trackers ? Are they a predictor of ... lemme guess... INS approvals ? You couldn\'t be serious about the reports, graphs, etc. That\'s fine for financial analysis but INS processing... ??

I value this site for the exchange of knowledge and experience. Trackers are for people who believe in crystal balls. I ain\'t a believer and am happy with the discussion boards.
 
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Good point, but the trackers do give you some idea of the time ranges. They are not good at a micro level. But they help. IMHO.
 
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I guess they are ok at a macro level. Personally I go by the SC board to get a sense for what\'s going on. Anyways the original poster has plenty of steam to vent and he is rather passionate about trackers! Not me!!
 
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Suggestions were asked from all the different sections of this website for information on how to improve the existing tracker.

Definitely there is scope for improvement.

By looking at the data and sorting it in different ways many people have analysed and understood quite a lot of things about INS.

PCee was able to predict when the next batch of fingerprint notices would arrive.

I have analysed the data of CSC and come to a conclusion.

Generally speaking CSC adjudicates based on case number.

However when fp has been done late the adjudication is delayed.

Currently CSC is processing WAC-01-260 to WAC-01-269 cases.
and has completed 80 percent of them.

They have also completed 25 percent of the
wac-01-270 to wac-01-279 series.

To make a good analysis you need data and tools to sort it and look at them from different angles.

This helps us know more about INS and also helps people in their expectation of when they expect their case to be adjudicated.
 
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HI,

Thanks, those are good suggestions, we shall definitely consider them when revising our INS tracekrs.
 
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I present below a copy of the message that I have posted in the
csc section of the website.

I hope that this will illustrate my viewpoint of what an immigration tracker could help towards case status information.

Also it would be nice if this could be represented graphically

Maybe the pages could be static pages or dynamically generated based on a search criteria input by the user.

Pie charts and bar graphs illustrate the same information in a much better and easier method.

I request You Mr. Rajiv Khanna and Ms. Monica to please respond.

I love it when there is a healthy discussion and an exchange of views.

Respectfully

rsrgc

PS. The link given below shall take you to the recent approvals
thread that I maintain regularly

"Recent approvals for March 2002 part 3"

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b CSC weekly/fortnight/pending summary and analysis

b --------------------------------------------------------

The summary of this week (from Monday March 18 to Sunday March 25 is a total of 41
approvals.

This includes all handles (old handles in PCee\'s list and new handles)
Old approvals
 
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DikJr,

Regarding Trackers... You may view it as a "crystal ball" if you don\'t know how to use the information or how to interpret it. Who said tracker is just to guess "approvals"? You could use it in so many ways...

First of all have you seen the tracker we are maintaining? If not I request you to go and see it once at any of the following URLs...
http://pceegcee.tripod.com/
http://pc485.tripod.com/

Yes, we are here to share our experiences and ideas especially whenever there is a question "What to do..." Note that most of the people here on this board are not professionals (I mean in legal field). So at what stage they are in the specific processing, and what is their experience, to what extent it is useful to me etc. etc. maters most. Tracker/SummaryPages gives you exactly that kind of information.

For e.g. Let\'s say some one has question related to RFE in AOS stage. Here in our CSC I-485 tracker you can easily find out the list of people who got RFEs and by clicking on their names one can go through their experiences etc.

Let me give you another example, some one filed for AOS in CSC in April and didn\'t get FPs yet. The lawyer says yah, send a fax enquiry and there is nothing else we can do apart from just waiting! That person comes to this board and wants to get experiences of people in somewhat similar position or people who went through. By looking into trackers one can find out exactly those people and get to their experiences...

Now back to approvals, yes, what is wrong in expecting when exactly one will get approvals? I think to some extent (yes let it be at macro level) it is predictable to expect when one will get AP/EAD/AOS approvals by looking in to trackers.

- PCee

PS: Information is knowledge. If it is properly formatted and made accessible and usable then it becomes very powerful tool.
 
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Rajiv,

Let me know if I can be of any help in revising these screens, formatting etc. Until now while I was going through this GC process, based on mine and my fellow applicants needs I kept on improving these summary pages. I would like to share my experience and knowledge if it can be any helpful for you in improving trackers on this board.

Thanks
PCee

Summary pages:
http://pceegcee.tripod.com/
http://pc485.tripod.com/
 
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