TSC processing date jumps to April 04 !!

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saras76

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Guys and Gals,

Check out the latest dates released by AILA. Please note that these are for all employment based categories (EB1/EB2/EB3)

http://www.aila.org/content/default.aspx?bc=6726|17086

PS- I had posted an earlier message that stated that this date was for EB3s only. That was a mistake and hence I deleted the thread.

regards,

saras
 
I found this information too. But I haven't heard too many approvals in here, so kinda wonder how it worked out so fast in two weeks. I believe similar things happened before at VSC for I-140 petitions, it had been back and forth for a while, and then really became much faster. Hope it would happen in here at TSC.

But I am a little bit nervous since I just called to change address and the timeframe is close to my date (08/2004). Don't know how long it takes for them to update my address, I heard the lady was typing while talking to me on the phone, so hope the change was instant. Anybody please share similar experience.

Have a nice day!
 
Here is what I believe happened

Guys and Gals,

I have been following approvals at TSC for a few years now and this is what happened. In mid to late 04 TSC approved a ton of 140-485 applications together with RDs ranging from July 03 to April 04. They ignored everything else at that time. Why they chose those particular dates remains a mystery. Until last month the official TSC processing date was in Mid 03. Since they have already approved a lot of mid 03s and early 04s the date jumped to Mid 04 (April 04). It makes little sense but this is what has happened.

For EB3s this is not going to have any immediate relief because our approvals now depend solely on the PDs (PD is the date the labor was originaly filed and can be found on the approved 140 notice). If your EB3 application RD is before April 04 but your PD is not current the case cannot be approved. This will help those EB3s that have a current PD in October and their RD is before the processing date. We will find out the PD cutoff when the USCIS releases the new PD date in September. I have heard rumors that the EB3 PD will be set anywhere between OCT 01 to OCT 02.

regards,

saras
 
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Saras

What about me. I filed my EB1 petition in September 2004 under Outstanding profressor category. This category does not require labor. Please suggest. MY I140 is approved and also I have compled mine and my wife's fingerprinting. No LUD has changed after I did my fingerprinting.
Jai
 
Concurrent processing made the dates move faster

Saras76 is right. They approved the concurrent processing cases applied after July 03 and approved them before approving the pending cases from 2001,2002 and early 2003. Which is one of the reason for the PD to be so far behind otherwise it could have been in Jan 2003 or later. Any way hopefully it moves ahead in Sep. I hope it will atleast remain the same [For retrogessed countries] as June 02 or move forward a little bit like Aug 02 and then move a month or two every month which will atleast work good for all.
 
PD's in October

someone asked Murthy to make a prediction on the PD movement for EB3 category...here is her response.....

Chat User : Hello, Murthyji. If you were to make a guess, in October 2005, what do you think the retrogressed EB3 might open back with?

Attorney Murthy : Generally, the U.S. Department of State will release the October figures in mid September 2005. Then the effective date is October 1, 2005, if the PDs for Indian nationals will become current at that time. The expectation is that the PDs will become current for most nationals in EB3 except for India and China, possibly (since even the Philippines mostly had nurses who will now be covered under the new 50,000 quota for nurses). So don't expect an Indian national to enjoy the same PD cutoff as the rest of the world by October 1, 2005.

my guess isthat PD's for EB3 will around late 2002 or early 2003 but we will have to wait and watch. it all depends on how fast BEC are approving the backlogged labor cases.


saras76 said:
Guys and Gals,

I have been following approvals at TSC for a few years now and this is what happened. In mid to late 04 TSC approved a ton of 140-485 applications together with RDs ranging from July 03 to April 04. They ignored everything else at that time. Why they chose those particular dates remains a mystery. Until last month the official TSC processing date was in Mid 03. Since they have already approved a lot of mid 03s and early 04s the date jumped to Mid 04 (April 04). It makes little sense but this is what has happened.

For EB3s this is not going to have any immediate relief because our approvals now depend solely on the PDs (PD is the date the labor was originaly filed and can be found on the approved 140 notice). If your EB3 application RD is before April 04 but your PD is not current the case cannot be approved. This will help those EB3s that have a current PD in October and their RD is before the processing date. We will find out the PD cutoff when the USCIS releases the new PD date in September. I have heard rumors that the EB3 PD will be set anywhere between OCT 01 to OCT 02.

regards,

saras
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jai_GC said:
What about me. I filed my EB1 petition in September 2004 under Outstanding profressor category. This category does not require labor. Please suggest. MY I140 is approved and also I have compled mine and my wife's fingerprinting. No LUD has changed after I did my fingerprinting.
Jai
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Since you are EB1, you have nothing to worry. If there is no RFE and if your name check is complete then your case should see approval soon. Although your date is Sept 04 which is beyond the current processing date they are currently only dealing with EB1 and EB2 cases so you should hear some good news shortly.

regards,

saras
 
saras76 said:
Since you are EB1, you have nothing to worry. If there is no RFE and if your name check is complete then your case should see approval soon. Although your date is Sept 04 which is beyond the current processing date they are currently only dealing with EB1 and EB2 cases so you should hear some good news shortly.

regards,

saras
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A lot of my friends got their I485 approved in past 2 months from TSC. They are most in EB1 or NIW category filed last year cocurrently or not. However, I am still waiting for mine :(
 
LCMSD,

Your timeline is exactly the same as mine (see my signature). Let's keep each other posted.

Good luck!
 
Don't know what's true, these dates are always in ????s, you can only rely when one will get the GC. From long time I stop trusting these dates. Lets see.
 
True .. but

KGY said:
Don't know what's true, these dates are always in ????s, you can only rely when one will get the GC. From long time I stop trusting these dates. Lets see.
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I understand what you are saying. A lot of times these dates mean nothing. My colleague who applied in March 04 got his approval in Jan 05. His case had nothing to do with the dates. The only advantage is that if your case RD is before the processing date you have levarage to write to your congressman or senator. If the RD is after the publihsed processing date you can bet that TSC will never give you any information on your case. They will always state that your RD is well after the published date and hence "there is no delay". With the RD being before the official processing date one can put some pressure on the TSC to act or to atleast provide a reason for the delay. So in a way this is good. Other than that these dates mean nothing.

At this time there is a mad rush to get the dates to within 6 months of the current month. I am not sure if you remeber but during his first term in office, George Bush had promised that 2006 he would make sure that the GC process would be reduced to a 6 month process. Since he is still in office the USCIS is scampering to make sure they get their current processing dates to within 6 months of the current date. They will do this by hook or by crook. Its a dirty political game.

regards,

saras
 
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Trust these dates?

I agree with KGY!
At one point in time I was following these dates very closely. My I-140 should have been approved by 03/2004 by those dates. Eventually got approved in 11/2004 after followup through Senator Cornyn.
Eventhough mine is an employment based I-485 and I work for the same employer, TSC in all their wisdom decided to transfer the case to Dallas local office for scheduling an interview (Thank God it was not to Miami ;) ). Based on the feedback in this forum, I believed the average time to schedule an interview was 4 months. Now it is almost 9 months and I am still waiting.

Along the way, they misplaced the AP application of my son resulting in his loosing one year of College studies. Standard reply for followups through Attorney as well as Senator. Eventually applied again for AP which got approved in 2 months and a few months later TSC found the misplaced application and sent us more copies of the same AP!

Saras, I think it is my day to rave and rant about TSC :)

PD:03/2002
EB3 Concurrent Filing
I-140/I-485 RD 02/14/2003 ND 02/18/2003
Name Check cleared in 03/2003
FP1: 06/24/04 FP2: 07/27/05
I-140 AD 11/08/04 (after followup thro Senator Cornyn)
I-485 Transfer to Dallas local office: 11/08/04
3 EADs
Awaiting 3rd AP
I-485 AD: ????
 
TSC is bad .. there is no doubt about that

Dallas03096,

I understand your frustration. Certain cases like ours have been screwed over so badly that nothing makes sense. For us official processing dates and current trends have no meaning because our files have been pushed to some far of corner waiting for someone to stumble upon and do something. All we can do is keep seeking updates utilizing different channels and eventually they will act .. as pathetic as that sounds, thats our only option.

I hope you will receive the interview letter soon.

Good luck,

saras
 
These dates mean something if not messed up!

Hi All
I was reading this thread and let me say these dates have some meaning .
1.How these dates are published?
They go to the last clear case which has been cleared .They ignore the problem cases for date calculation(like saras).So suppose on 1st August they cleared a case of 10th march 2005 and yet they are processing 10th Feb 2005 (RFE etc) ,they will publish 10th Feb 2005 not 10th March 2005.In normal and lucky case your case will be approved before you actually read these dates.Let me insist ,in normal and lucky cases. Say your case is 5th march 2005.it will be done before u read processing times.You folks can recall ur H1b Exp or 140 exp.
2.After the date is published and your RD is before that then you can enquire about ur case and they will entertain.Here the customer rep will note down the details and foraward it to some Joker and advice u to wait for 30 days. You can call back after 30 days and he or she will ask again to come back after 30 days till it get cleared. As Saras said if RD is after published date ,just forget to call them.

3.My exp:my Lobor was got stuck in state labor dept at one point of time.When they published the date which was after my date ,I asked them .They took my phone number .After 45 minutes they cleared it and called me .I was very glad and since she could make out thru my number that I was working in same office building (govt building) ,she chatted with me for 10 minutes and explained me in detailed about these dates.
 
Dates are only to Impress higher officials or to show it on paper.

TSC screwed up my case real bad and I have lost faith in Immigration system.
And i long back forgot to look for processing dates which USCIS publishes.
I am not sure why the USCIS filks are trying to COOK some thing which they cannot do.
 
Saras76
WOW! thanks for the info. It is an incredible jump in processing time. My PD is 06/26/02 and my I485 ND 07/28/03.... so according to predictions my case should be approved as soon as new FY starts in October. The thing is that I think TSC is not very good in following date order. Thay seem to jump many cases, then go back a little, then take super jumps and approve 2005 cases while there still 2002 cases waiting!!! So I really don't know what to believe anymore.
 
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