Service Centers are making headway on processing times

[Captain Ewok 1,871]

There has been some leveling off on processing times indicating that things are moving through the system...

[William33 110]

We have been waiting for the CSC curve to spin downward....about time.

Thanks Captain Ewok.

[samir_shannon 0]

yes they are making headway.. i just got my NOA2 today from CSC. things are moving along!

[Lewis 0]

The thing that confuses me about this data is that the recalled approved petitions may be lumped into together with petitions that are technically "approved" when almost all of the recalled petitions on VJ are actually still waiting for further processing to continue. Please let me know if I am mistaken.

On a big picture view, it is very nice to see that it appears a turning point has been reached, thanks for the encouragement.

[Mew 0]

The thing that confuses me about this data is that the recalled approved petitions may be lumped into together with petitions that are technically "approved" when almost all of the recalled petitions on VJ are actually still waiting for further processing to continue. Please let me know if I am mistaken.

On a big picture view, it is very nice to see that it appears a turning point has been reached, thanks for the encouragement.

You're right. Maybe the right thing for us recalled cases to do would be change our timelines so it would change the average data on the stats collected by VJ - even if there are like, 40 or so of us. Many of us still have our NOA2 dates in our timelines, even though we're waiting for a second NOA2. What do you think?

Edited July 26, 2006 by Mew

[rlt 0]

The thing that confuses me about this data is that the recalled approved petitions may be lumped into together with petitions that are technically "approved" when almost all of the recalled petitions on VJ are actually still waiting for further processing to continue. Please let me know if I am mistaken.

On a big picture view, it is very nice to see that it appears a turning point has been reached, thanks for the encouragement.

You're right. Maybe the right thing for us recalled cases to do would be change our timelines so it would change the average data on the stats collected by VJ - even if there are like, 40 or so of us. Many of us still have our NOA2 dates in our timelines, even though we're waiting for a second NOA2. What do you think?

I agree with Mew.

The recalled cases are no longer considered approved, so we should just change it...

[JenT 0]

The thing that confuses me about this data is that the recalled approved petitions may be lumped into together with petitions that are technically "approved" when almost all of the recalled petitions on VJ are actually still waiting for further processing to continue. Please let me know if I am mistaken.

On a big picture view, it is very nice to see that it appears a turning point has been reached, thanks for the encouragement.

You're right. Maybe the right thing for us recalled cases to do would be change our timelines so it would change the average data on the stats collected by VJ - even if there are like, 40 or so of us. Many of us still have our NOA2 dates in our timelines, even though we're waiting for a second NOA2. What do you think?

I agree with Mew.

The recalled cases are no longer considered approved, so we should just change it...

[William33 110]

That is a sobering point about recalls...

[texasseoul 0]

Processing times and statistical averages mean nothing at this point.

I spoke with an immigration attorney today that is a friend of mine.

In his professional opinon, "OPINION", they will work the cases with RFE's coming in first and not according to NOA1 dates, ie. varying NOA1 dates in the approvals, and the NOA1 dates are not a good indication of the time frame our cases will be worked. He used to work for DOS and has a very good understanding of the internal processes. Also, it depends on the Ajudication Officer assigned your file for the exact order of processing, some will try to work by NOA1 but utlimately they are just trying to reduce the number of cases as quick as possible and not as worried about NOA1's until they get the case load back to a managable level.

Well, maybe we would have better luck guessing winning lottery numbers than guessing the date of our NOA2 approvals......

[JenT 0]

Where are those dice, William? I want snake eyes...

edited because I can't spell 'those'.

Edited July 26, 2006 by JenT

[William33 110]

Damn, that sucks... here we are again with this type of processing:

Processing times and statistical averages mean nothing at this point.

I spoke with an immigration attorney today that is a friend of mine.

In his professional opinon, "OPINION", they will work the cases with RFE's coming in first and not according to NOA1 dates, ie. varying NOA1 dates in the approvals, and the NOA1 dates are not a good indication of the time frame our cases will be worked. He used to work for DOS and has a very good understanding of the internal processes. Also, it depends on the Ajudication Officer assigned your file for the exact order of processing, some will try to work by NOA1 but utlimately they are just trying to reduce the number of cases as quick as possible and not as worried about NOA1's until they get the case load back to a managable level.

Well, maybe we would have better luck guessing winning lottery numbers than guessing the date of our NOA2 approvals......

Edited July 26, 2006 by William33

[Lewis 0]

Very good points about the significance of processing times and NOA1 dates, there is really not much significance at all on a personal level. Everything you mentioned seems to be manifesting itself at this point. The backlog is so tremendous that it really makes no sense to handle it any other way from a management perspective.

[iceyspots 0]

Let's hope they keep moving in that direction

[William33 110]

Here ya go.....

Where are those dice, William? I want snake eyes...

edited because I can't spell 'those'.

[texasseoul 0]

Okay, I am going to be optimistic and may a guess that maybe they will have the backlog cleaned up before labor day weekend. At this point, that would make me happy. Maybe if we all have enough positive thought then we can will it to happen....