The Graphs are headed in the right direction!!

yes somewhat good

The red line.. cases pending.. has levelled off... meaning at a minimum they are processing at the same rate of reciepts...

eventually we shd see the gap between the green line and the red line reduce....

thats when we can start to have some hope of the 6 month mandate becoming a reality
 
Latest increase in speed of touching more no. of case

than actually approving the old cases is only beacuse, lately they are receiving lesser new cases. Atleast from this report we can assume that there is new fund allocation for backlog reduction program.
 
i agree with the default statement. could the effects of the economy be showing up?

unless the green goes above the blue considerably, i dont see the red coming down fast. leveling off just means that it will be 2 years and not the ideal 6 months.
 
Not so quick...

As I see it, the graphs are still not in control.

From the Blue Line: NSC is today processing cases filed generally between Nov 01 to Apr 02. During these times, as seen from graph, they received approx 550,000 cases/month.

From the Green Line: As observed from graph, they are approving only 400,000 cases/month since the last few months.

Bottomline: USCIS would continue to fall behind for another 2-3 yrs, as it works its way thru having received 550k cases/month in the months that it is currently working upon, and being able to process only 400k of them. Only after they have cleared all these cases, would they reach the stage where they received 400k cases/month and approve 400k/month.

Not trying to paint a grim picture.. just being realistic when looking at numbers.

goodluck to all of us.

-ab
 
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The glass is half empty. The latest report posted on the USCIS website shows that pending cases are increasing.
 
My observation:
Recipts (blue) and approvals (Green) almost fluctuate in the same manner, but approvals have a dip in one or two places along the curve. Why...??? when reciepts have fallen down by 2 steps , approvals too have fallen down by 2 steps....,

The last 3 data points on the red show a decline in pending cases, this cannot be attributed to increase in approvals, this can be attributed to decrease in reciepts. Sep 2003 has 600K reciepts and Nov 2003 has < 400K recipts...., the consequece is a two month delayed effect on the red curve...that had decreased by nearly 100K....
Inference: Rate of approval is just steadystate.... reciepts are more than approvals...., continues to increase in backlog....
 
Going only by pending I-485 applications, which I guess is what most of us in this particular group are interested, the backlog has increased by 2672 from Nov 2003. There were 1,240,111
I-485 pending as of Nov 03' and it is now 1,242,783. Numbers speaks for itself!!!
 
Atlanbhoplai is right

At the point we can't say it is realy moving anywhere. While there is a start (maybe....) of a new direction, I do not see any sign of NSC catching up for the next couple of years...I would give them 3-4 months and them see.
Not to discourage anybody, but assuming they have started to make a differrence, we won't see real affects for several months.
The main thing is good luck to all of us, and hold tight,
 
Atlanbhoplai is right

At the point we can't say it is realy moving anywhere. While there is a start (maybe....) of a new direction, I do not see any sign of NSC catching up for the next couple of years...I would give them 3-4 months and them see.
Not to discourage anybody, but assuming they have started to make a differrence, we won't see real affects for several months.
The main thing is good luck to all of us, and hold tight,
 
Atlanbhoplai is right

At the point we can't say it is realy moving anywhere. While there is a start (maybe....) of a new direction, I do not see any sign of NSC catching up for the next couple of years...I would give them 3-4 months and them see.
Not to discourage anybody, but assuming they have started to make a differrence, we won't see real affects for several months.
The main thing is good luck to all of us, and hold tight,
 
Not very hopeful

During the whole year, the approved numbers were always below the recieved number. I could not see how the pending cases are levelling off unless they have more denied applications. For as long as there are more recieved cases than the approved cases, the backlogs will never be reduced. We have to wait and see how the first quarter of 2004 plays out. But I am not very hopeful.
 
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