hai_yeh_gc
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Called TSC today and the IO told me clearly that they are processing cases based on Receipt Date. Nothing new other than that, same old, no #s available, wait til Oct blah blah blah....
Called TSC today and the IO told me clearly that they are processing cases based on Receipt Date. Nothing new other than that, same old, no #s available, wait til Oct blah blah blah....
all bulllll*********shit, i am still sitting here Barking with receipt date of 12/12/03 and PD 16/10/02.
I'm betting the delay in your case was caused by expired FPs.
For whatever reason, USCIS/TSC didn't do anything till April/May '07. Then they realized there are a truckload of visas that haven't been used up. So they set about opening up files, found out that lots of cases have expired FPs, tried to send them FP notices (and in many cases, those notices never went out), and processed all those cases first whose FPs came back in as expected. While they were waiting for those FPs, they went ahead and processed those cases whose FPs *were* current (in most cases, anyway, since there are always exceptions).
The point being that the people who benefited earliest from this approval wave were those whose FPs were current and whose security checks had been cleared when their files were picked up. Everyone else then ended up in a queue behind those lucky cases. This meant that most old filers were left out because the prolonged retrogression caused all the old filers' FPs to expire. Also, because of the retrogression, USCIS didn't bother to send FP renewal notices (why bother getting FPs when the PD isn't current).
No one would want USCIS to just sit on their thumbs and wait for all old cases to come back with new FPs and stop processing later cases till the old ones are cleared.
By the same token, I think we would all like to see that as soon as the old filers provide their FPs, their cases go back into the RD/PD-ordered queue to be assigned to an officer. Unfortunately, that's what hasn't happened, and that is what has caused all this frustration. The re-placement (based on RD order) of a file into its correct place in the queue of "to-be-adjudicated" cases is just not happening. There is way too much manual processing involved there, and is most likely the cause of the randomness of approvals.
I'm betting the delay in your case was caused by expired FPs.
For whatever reason, USCIS/TSC didn't do anything till April/May '07. Then they realized there are a truckload of visas that haven't been used up. So they set about opening up files, found out that lots of cases have expired FPs, tried to send them FP notices (and in many cases, those notices never went out), and processed all those cases first whose FPs came back in as expected. While they were waiting for those FPs, they went ahead and processed those cases whose FPs *were* current (in most cases, anyway, since there are always exceptions).
The point being that the people who benefited earliest from this approval wave were those whose FPs were current and whose security checks had been cleared when their files were picked up. Everyone else then ended up in a queue behind those lucky cases. This meant that most old filers were left out because the prolonged retrogression caused all the old filers' FPs to expire. Also, because of the retrogression, USCIS didn't bother to send FP renewal notices (why bother getting FPs when the PD isn't current).
No one would want USCIS to just sit on their thumbs and wait for all old cases to come back with new FPs and stop processing later cases till the old ones are cleared.
By the same token, I think we would all like to see that as soon as the old filers provide their FPs, their cases go back into the RD/PD-ordered queue to be assigned to an officer. Unfortunately, that's what hasn't happened, and that is what has caused all this frustration. The re-placement (based on RD order) of a file into its correct place in the queue of "to-be-adjudicated" cases is just not happening. There is way too much manual processing involved there, and is most likely the cause of the randomness of approvals.
I'm betting the delay in your case was caused by expired FPs.
For whatever reason, USCIS/TSC didn't do anything till April/May '07. Then they realized there are a truckload of visas that haven't been used up. So they set about opening up files, found out that lots of cases have expired FPs, tried to send them FP notices (and in many cases, those notices never went out), and processed all those cases first whose FPs came back in as expected. While they were waiting for those FPs, they went ahead and processed those cases whose FPs *were* current (in most cases, anyway, since there are always exceptions).
The point being that the people who benefited earliest from this approval wave were those whose FPs were current and whose security checks had been cleared when their files were picked up. Everyone else then ended up in a queue behind those lucky cases. This meant that most old filers were left out because the prolonged retrogression caused all the old filers' FPs to expire. Also, because of the retrogression, USCIS didn't bother to send FP renewal notices (why bother getting FPs when the PD isn't current).
No one would want USCIS to just sit on their thumbs and wait for all old cases to come back with new FPs and stop processing later cases till the old ones are cleared.
By the same token, I think we would all like to see that as soon as the old filers provide their FPs, their cases go back into the RD/PD-ordered queue to be assigned to an officer. Unfortunately, that's what hasn't happened, and that is what has caused all this frustration. The re-placement (based on RD order) of a file into its correct place in the queue of "to-be-adjudicated" cases is just not happening. There is way too much manual processing involved there, and is most likely the cause of the randomness of approvals.
No man...Its not question about who is getting approved and who is not....the main question is the integrity of USCIS rules and regulations...do IO or adjudicators actually follow them....not sure about...
Called TSC today and the IO told me clearly that they are processing cases based on Receipt Date. Nothing new other than that, same old, no #s available, wait til Oct blah blah blah....
Called TSC today and the IO told me clearly that they are processing cases based on Receipt Date. Nothing new other than that, same old, no #s available, wait til Oct blah blah blah....