I have no idea how this process plays out, but our case was DQ'ed October 2023. Since then, I have been subtracting the number of interviews each month from the number of people who were waiting at that time. CR1.
311550 November
274931 December
229116 January
186965 February
138848 March
Can anyone tell me if this is the right way to look at the backlog? My thinking was that you only need to focus on the number of people not affected by the visa bulletin who were already waiting for an interview. I could be way off, but any ideas would be appreciated.