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Per the realCanadian, there are 3 steps for your I485 processing:

1. Staging area, after your 485 received and your case is pending?
2. workload distribution area: the area IIO can pick up anytime
3. assign to IIO

Correct me if I'm wrong.

Please share your guideline with us.
 
Originally posted by kia
Per the realCanadian, there are 3 steps for your I485 processing:

1. Staging area, after your 485 received and your case is pending?
2. workload distribution area: the area IIO can pick up anytime
3. assign to IIO

Correct me if I'm wrong.Please share your guideline with us.
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There's actually a little more than this. When your I-485 package gets received, there's a first stage where your application is checked for basic eligibility; do you have the correct fees, and is there an I-140 attached or LC (for concurrent filings) and a G-325? It's not ajudication, but a cursory check to make sure it's properly filed. Around here is when your case gets entered into CLAIMS and a receipt notice is generated.

From there, your application gets sorted by type, priority date, receipt date and country of eligibility. It gets put into the "File Maintenance stage", where the different aspects of your file are collected. If you're not filig concurrently, your I-140 file and the LC gets requested from the Service Center or NVC. A fingerprint notice is generated, and the results when ready are consolidated into the file. The G-325 gets sent off to your home country's US consulate or embassy for checking, as well as FBI? CIA? etc. The results go back into your file.

Once that's all complete and your I-485 is ready to ajudicate, it gets "purged" from File Maintenance and into Workload Distribution. At this point, it gets staged in the "Ready Work" queue. And here it waits, and waits, and waits until it gets assigned to an officer. At this point, it waits some more until the officer recommends approval, RFE, or intent to deny.

At that point if there's an RFE or ITD, the case may go back to Workload Distribution again for further staging until the response is received, and it goes back through the wait again. :(

If all is well, the AO recommends approval, and requests a visa number from the Department of State. Once this is confirmed, the case is approved and the contractor generates the approval notice. Please note that from all indications, it takes 1-2 days from when approval is recommended to the actual notice getting sent out, so some of you might already be "approved" but don't know it it. Maybe I am in the same boat. :)

Hope this helps.

RD 8/28/01
ND 10/26/01
FP 1/31/02
RFE 8/2/02
RFERECD 8/28/01
AD "When Pigs Fly and Hell Freezes Over"
 
thanks, man, your are super!

You should take a job in INS after your GC aprroval;)

I cann't imagine the heavy workload in INS. Somebody have to go back and forth to update your file phisically. Who will do that? IIOs? just curious.
 
Those were very informative lines from RealCanadian ? Now a MILLION DOLLAR question for you RealCanadian- How do you about all these work steps within INS Center ?


P.S. I did'nt know until your last post that G-325 form was sent to the Home consulate for verification of information ? That will clear some cloud over Why INS takes so long to process I-485 application.
 
Hi Realcanadian,

Man, you did some real good research on this. LIke kia said you should join INS. But I have a question what exactly is G325 ?

thanks
 
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