Vk and other folks,
I am tracking this forum since almost more than one and half year now. My file date was 06/26/02. At some point and time when I had seen lots of people contributing to the forum and VA-labor was moving very quick. And based on that I expected that my case will be done by end of September.
But, now since as someone posted that only one guy is working on RIR, I had seen tremendous fall in the speed. Also, I am seeing that people are loosing their interest from the forum.
VK- I am agree with you that we must do something to have more people(staff) back on to RIR cases at VA labor as now they are already done with April backlog for NON-RIR. For that, I think moderator of this forum, or Rajiv needs to step up to have another petition for VA-RIR Labor posted so we all can sign up.
Or, we can have a letter drafted to send it to VA-DOL office.
Or, I think because of lower phone call volume they may have thought that RIR applicants are not in rush, and that could be the another reason that why they had slowed the process of RIR, so what if we increase a call volume of at least 3 times in a week instead only once in a week.
I had also seen that MD-DOL have added more staff and since then they are on the target of finishing 3days of cases on 1 workday.
This all are just the ideas.
Post your suggestions to improve VA-DOL performance.
tp