This is from usvisanews.com.....not good.
By Misty Carroll Wednesday, February 5, 2003
In a phone call yesterday to the Texas Service Center, one of the employees of Latour and Lleras was informed that the Center had halted processing on all applications except for I-765 and Premium Processing applications. The representative from the Service Center explained that this halt occurred shortly before Christmas (late December, 2002) and they expect that it will continue for at least another two to three more weeks as they have more than 9,000 Premium Processing and Temporary Protected Status (I-765) cases which need to be processed. As soon as the Center eliminates this backlog, we fully expect them to resume processing all other cases (e.g. I-130s and I-140s) that have been placed on hold.