Why are some people getting approved despite retrogression?

[shadyhtown]

I was on rupnet.com immigration page, and I noticed people who noted down their information after being approved. In the records for the past month and a half, atleast 5 people were EB3 from India (a retrogressed country) who had priority dates that were not yet current - usually PD of May, July, even October 2002. Why did they get approved then?

Maybe these people did not write their Priority dates correctly - or they might have written the dates of when their Labor was approved, rather than filed - but I doubt that's the reason.

One note: these people usually had a 485 receipt notice date for early/mid 2003 or so, only about 6-8 months away from their Priority dates. I suppose the PD must have been for their 140s, and some of them got approved despite retrogression because their 485s had been pending for a long time.

I suppose this was one of the times where the 485 ND, rather than the PD, came into play. Processing had probably started on their application before the retrogression took place.

 

[shadyhtown]

In a perfect world, the cases would be handled in a perfect chronological manner, even an April 12 case wouldn't be handled before an April 11 case, etc. But this isn't a perfect world - oh well. If that was the case, we'd be done with all 2002 PD cases by now and into 2003.

By the way, I actually contacted one of those people, who had a PD of May 22, 2002, and was approved in March, when the PD was current for cases before March 1 2002. He said he probably just got lucky because his PD wasn't too far away from the current.

It's one of those rare situations. I suppose that happened because he is in NSC, which is processing cases much faster that other SC's, so maybe it's going over the PD a couple times.