joyd said:
For 485, it's still 2002 and not 2004 as you mentioned. ETA where's your analysis?
Sorry -- I was out of the office today (and I wasn't expecting another update this soon
). Here's the "analysis"
:
Update 07/21/04 +9 days
I-765 (AOS) 05/27/04 +48 days
I-131 (AP) 04/26/04 +0 days
I-140 (EB2 excep. ability) 11/20/03 +1 days
I-140 (EB2 excep. ability NIW) 09/03/02 +0 days
I-140 (EB3 skilled worker) 01/03/04 +57 days
I-485 06/04/02 +48 days
Nice jump in the I-485 date (109 days over the last 2 updates) and in the I-140 (EB3) date (hard to believe these are down to about 7 months now). The I-485 jump is especially impressive given that prior to the 2 most recent updates it had only moved 15 days in 6+ earlier updates.
Still, as far as the I-485 date goes, this isn't a huge surprise -- we've been seeing a number of I-485 approvals for ND's of June, July 2002 (or even later) for some time now (there have even been a trickle of approvals for ND's of Jan/Feb 2003 or later).
Unfortunately, I'd bet that the huge numbers of transfers that we are seeing are contributing to the average processing date -- i.e. from the VSC's point of view, I'm guessing that a transferred case is considered to have been "processed", even though it could take a long time for the local centers to actually approve (or deny) the case.
Also, in case anyone is interested, I attached the simple spreadsheet which I'm using to track VSC updates (it goes back to the beginning of March 2004).
Go VSC Go....
ETA