The story of what happens after the case is assigned to an Adjudication officer
9. If the officer is satisfied, the application is marked approved on the application. The officer does not have the time to print the recipt and put it in an envelope and lick the envelope to seal it because they do not like the taste of the glue.
10. Approved applications are moved to contractors, who enter the data in the system and print the recipt and update the AVM with approved messages. This is when your application is finally approved. -- This explains why mail room plays so important part in approval. Mail room backlog means that although you are approved by the officer, you will not hear about your approval.
When INS reports its processing times to AILA, it reports of processing time based on what files are being worked on by Adjudication officer. These are based on RD.
Immigration information officer (IIO) are different from Adjudication officers and generally dont have a clue of what is going on except for a memo that comes around every 15 days about processing times.
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cincy485 "Sherlock Holmes investigates SC processing for 485. Recruiting Dr. Watson for further investigations..." 5/3/02 5:52pm