The Center acknowledges that the processing date of employment-based Forms I-485 has not moved much since early 2003. The Center indicated that it has taken a 75% cut in officers assigned to this product line. The Center currently only has five officers working on this product line. The Center stated that it anticipates that it will return to pre-cut levels of production by October 1st and that its planning to augment the staff on the product line by three officers at that time bringing the total number of officers on that product line to 19. However, these officers will also have to focus on asylee and religious worker adjustment of status applications. The Center did indicate that if the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) initiates its PERM program which then increases the number of Form I-140 filings, the Center may have to transfer some of the officers from the Form I-485 product line to the Form I-140 product line to keep processing times relatively current.
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