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Member Profile: littlegreenman (159 posts)
 
Hello, I'm littlegreenman
My nationality is Romania
I last logged in 18 hours 34 minutes ago
I have been a member since 12 Mar 2007
I have added 159 posts in trackitt forums
I added my last post on 07 Dec 2008
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littlegreenman's Immigration Cases
 
I-140 case: Approved in 400 days (105 days more than average*)  (0 comments)  (View approval trend)
User: littlegreenman Labor Filing Date: 16 Aug 2006
Service Center: Nebraska Processing Type: regular
Category: EB3 Filing Type: non-concurrent
Application Mailed: USCIS Received Date: 08 Mar 2007
USCIS Notice Date: 09 Mar 2007 RFE: no
RFE Reply Date: I-140 Status: approved
Approval Date: 11 Apr 2008 Nationality: Romania
Last Updated: 11 Apr 2008
Notes: I got approved on 04/11/2008. Had an LUD on 03/02/2008.

*This is the average approval time in the last one year for cases with no RFE. (RFE = Request For Evidence)
I-485 case: Pending for 546 days (175 days more than average*)  (12 comments)  (View approval trend)
User: littlegreenman Priority Date: 16 Aug 2006
Service Center: Nebraska Category: EB3
Application Mailed: 11 Jul 2007 USCIS Received Date: 12 Jul 2007
USCIS Notice Date: 10 Sep 2007 Filing Type: non-concurrent
I-140 Processing: regular I-140 Approval Date: 11 Apr 2008
Fingerprinting Date 1: 13 May 2008 Fingerprinting Date 2:
RFE: no RFE Reply Date:
Name Check Status: approved Name Check Approval Date: 24 Sep 2007
I-485 Status: pending Approval/Denial Date: N/A
Card Ordered Date: Card Received Date:
EAD Applied: yes AP Applied: yes
EAD Approval Date: 24 Sep 2007 AP Approval Date: 03 Oct 2007
Nationality: Romania Country of Chargeability: Romania
Applicant Type: dependent Last Updated: 05 Jan 2009
Notes: RD 07/12/2007 @ NSC, ND 09/10/2007 @ TSC. 03/25/2008 TSC -> NSC. 05/13/2008 FP LUDs: 12/22/2007, 03/25/2008, 03/26/2008, 04/07/2008, 04/09/2008, 04/10/2008, 04/28/2008 (FP), 04/29/2008; 07/18/2008, 07/20/2008; 07/21/2008

*This is the average approval time in the last one year for cases with no RFE. (RFE = Request For Evidence)

littlegreenman's Recent Posts

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Posted in I-485 Forum on 07 Dec 2008
Topic: Could it be more of a fire drill?


Is it me or are they actually creating work for themselves through enormous inefficiencies?



That's a very polite way of putting it.
Posted in I-485 Forum on 22 Nov 2008
Topic: EB3-India... Why So Serious?

This goes to show you how getting a stupid green card changes people... or makes them show their true colors. A few months ago this moron was a nobody waiting in line for a green card but now he's all american, red white and blue, ready to close the door on EB immigration and set policy. I suggest you get a reality check.
Just know that most people in EB3, including myself, do qualify for EB2 and better but because of circumstances beyond their control are stuck here... And trust me, I've seen my share of "miserable level" EB2 & EB1 and judging by your recent posts you fit very nicely into that category as well.


I think it should be removed because of miserable level of EB3 immigrants. So, we agree on this one. Good.

Posted in I-485 Forum on 20 Nov 2008
Topic: EB3 ROW Time to wake up

In March I made an excel spreadsheet with data from Trackitt (copy/paste) of all pending EB3-ROW cases (there were around 700 at that time). I then made this little chart to see how priority dates are distributed. Feel free to take a look: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=d0fc418280f23735d2db6fb9a8902bda
Posted in I-485 Forum on 20 Nov 2008
Topic: EB3 ROW Time to wake up

I'm glad you're still optimistic... July 07 will not happen again but what will happen again is July 08, i.e. running out of visa #s in the middle of the year because we're no longer getting unused numbers from EB-2 ROW.

Remember this thread: http://www.trackitt.com/discussion-forums/i485-1/233650049/
Posted in I-485 Forum on 06 Nov 2008
Topic: So...how far am I from getting greened?

Cartoondude, see my post here: http://www.trackitt.com/discussion-forums/i485-1/233650049/

This was my estimate based on how many cases there are here on Trackitt. Just keep in mind that PD does NOT matter once you are current. They seem to process and approve applications at random, so once you're current it's anyone's guess when you will be approved. It's very possible that you will be current during this fiscal year even if a for a few months. Every year is the same and it starts with slow movement from Oct. - March and then they start jacking up PDs to avoid visa number wastage. Just look at how PDs moved in FY2007 & 2008.
Posted in I-485 Forum on 30 Oct 2008
Topic: EB3 ROW Cases on Trackitt

Yep, sometimes I scare myself too :) The point is: forget about your GC, stop checking your USCIS online case status, quit visiting this forum and get along with your life. With or without your green card life goes on and I hear that GCs are overrated too... Most of my friends got their GCs already and for the life of me, I really didn't notice them being any happier or less stressed or having had their lives significantly improved.

I'm really trying to do the same thing but for some reason I keep coming back here out of boredom and lack of something better to do at the time... My advice is to get a hobby! It really works.... mine is photography and I'm telling you, when I'm out there on some remote place in the mountains shooting a beautiful sunrise, the last thing that comes to my mind is this stupid green card...





I said up to three years. We're not discussing individual cases. You might get your tomorrow for all it's worth, but the worst case scenario is 3 years, yes.



Hey leprechaun (aka littlegreenman)
YOU ARE SCARING THE LIVING LIFE OF ME and mabe others...



Posted in I-485 Forum on 30 Oct 2008
Topic: EB3 ROW Cases on Trackitt

I said up to three years. We're not discussing individual cases. You might get your tomorrow for all it's worth, but the worst case scenario is 3 years, yes.
Posted in I-485 Forum on 30 Oct 2008
Topic: EB3 ROW Cases on Trackitt

It's just about right. There are 5048 pending cases on Trackitt (EB1,2,3,3-I, etc...). Please see here (http://immigration-information.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6468). Gotcher and Oh say that there are around 400k pending EB cases.

% = 5048 * 100 / 400000

% = 1.26

On trackitt EB3 ROW are 21% of all pending apps which based on the % representation above would be ~ 84k.

The % allocation of visa #s for EB3 ROW is 28.6 % based on the visa bulletin. So that means 40040 EB3-ROW visas per year.

But it's gets complicated, because dependents are also counted against the quota and those dependents are not represented here on trackitt. Let's assume that on average there are 1.5 visa #s allocated per EB main applicant. That makes the 84k become 126k.

Essentially, if your case is pending right now, it will take up to three years for you to get your GC.
Posted in I-485 Forum on 30 Oct 2008
Topic: EB3 ROW Cases on Trackitt

It's easy,
USCIS says that they have ~450k EB cases pending. See how many pending cases there are on Trackitt and do the math. It's around 1%.
Posted in I-485 Forum on 16 Oct 2008
Topic: November 2008 Visa bulletin EB3 ROW

Depends on who is making the statement and in this case it's the State Department. From DOS's point of view, "demand" is requests for visa #s made by USCIS. Remember, it's DOS who issues the Visa Bulletin and they are supposedly adjusting priority dates based on the number of cases and PDs for which the USCIS requests visa numbers.

If for example, they're getting 1000 visa # requests per day and there are 10000 visas left they will try to retrogress the PD so that it curbs demand and visa #s are not consumed very very quickly.
The other opposite happens when PDs are so much retrogressed that USCIS doesn't ask for any visa #s because they either do not currently work on these older cases or there aren't any cases that have such an old PD. In this scenario because demand is low, DOS will advance cut-off dates so that visa #s are not wasted.

If DOS advances PDs by too much then visa numbers will be gone in a couple of weeks and if they do it to slow then visa #s get wasted at the end of the fiscal year. Call it a lose, lose situation.