July 2009 saw a huge spike in completed I-129F applications at CSC - why?

[hobokenworkingman 4]

The USCIS processing times website (http://dashboard.uscis.gov/index.cfm?formtype=6&office=2&charttype=1) saw a huge spike in completed I-129F applications at the CSC. Just wondering if anyone knew what happened during this month causing this spike in processed applications (and how can we repeat it?!!).

[Kathryn41 3,205]

According to a former USCIS worker who was a member here (still may be, don't know), he reported that there are times when everyone would be pulled in to work specifically on certain visas, then would leave those types of visas to go and work on another type of visa. Not all visa types are apparently being worked on every day of the year, but go through 'waves' where one visa type is worked on, then another visa type is selected and so on and so on. I suspect that in July, the focus for USCIS CSC employees was to work on I-129f visas, thus there are larger numbers of them processed as that was the visa of priority at the time.

Since the decision for which type of visa USCIS workers work on is determined by such things as back logs, number of applications of that type filed, and the time of year (some work visas are time of year dependent) among other things, I doubt there is any way someone unaffiliated with the higher levels of USCIS management could exert influence to cause a similar spike.

Edited January 10, 2010 by Kathryn41