03/31/2009: USCIS Releases Eye-View of Target Processing Times at 09/30/2009 and Current Backlog by Type of Cases
* The USCIS has released on March 23, 2009 a very helpful eye-view table of the goal/target of the processing times of each type of immigration benefits applications or petitions by September 30, 2009 and the status of backlogs at the end of January 2009. The table reports the following:
o Target/goal of processing times as at 09/30/2009 which were set before the new filing fees schedule took effect under the July 2007 rule. The new fees applied effective August 1, 2007. Accordingly, the target which the USCIS fixed did not reflect most of the FY 2007 July Visa Bulletin fiasco filing.
o Target/goal of processing times as at 09/30/2009 which were set after the new filing fees schedule took effect under the July 2007 rule. The new fees applied beginning from August 1, 2007. Accordingly, the target which the USCIS fixed did reflect all of the FY 2007 July Visa Bulletin fiasco filings and in this regard, this target is considered to be more realistic.
o Target/goal of number of pending (backlog) cases at the end of September 2009, which did not include visa number retrogressed cases.
o Total number of cases (backlogs) estimate that need processing before October 1, 2009.
o Total number of cases (backlogs) at at 01/31/2009.
o Type of cases that have already met the FY 2009 goal. (See bold blue colored boxes)
* The eye-view table relly helps to understand the current processing time issues and predicted processing times and volumes at the end of September 2009, six-mont from now.
http://www.immigration-law.com/
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to Califfish:
It depends what your definition of backlog is. If your AOS has been pending for half an eternity yet you aren't current, (retrogressed that is) wily USCIS doesn't count your application as part of the backlog. So you can rot forever and they can still achieve their rosy processing goals.
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to Califfish:
I see one major issue here.
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o Target/goal of number of pending (backlog) cases at the end of September 2009, which did not include visa number retrogressed cases.
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It depends what your definition of backlog is. If your AOS has been pending for half an eternity yet you aren't current, (retrogressed that is) wily USCIS doesn't count your application as part of the backlog. So you can rot forever and they can still achieve their rosy processing goals.
to Murphydc:
Correct, but the question is whether the retrogressed applications be processed so that they can be approved once the PD becomes current. FYI - It is typical for retrogressed applications that they become current in a particular month and becomes retrogressed again in a month or two. |
to manwithnoname:
How come there "Today" backlog is only 234,043. I thought there were more than 700K.
Could somebody interpret this number please.
Thanks in advance
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to PD4May2006:
I believe it's exactly what all the other posters are saying.
" Target/goal of number of pending (backlog) cases at the end of September 2009, * which did not include visa number retrogressed cases.*"
That would safely avoid the entire 2007 fiasco, wouldn't it?
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to retro:
below note is quite opposite to above.. may be USCIS want to concentrate more on CURRENT cases in last quarter..
Target active pending includes cases pre-adjudicated but which cannot be approved yet because of overall limits on immigration visas.
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to goGreen2008:
Employment-based2*,3 * 6 4 13.9 79558 234,043
1* Where the case priority date is within one year of immigration eligibility based on the petition. We currently have an additional 1,123,058 unripe preference relative petitions awaiting processing.
2* USCIS currently tracks one overall processing time for these adjustment of status applications, but over the course of FY09 will begin to track them individually.
3* Target active pending includes cases pre-adjudicated but which cannot be approved yet because of overall limits on immigration visas.
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to goGreen2008:
so there are 234,043 cases with current PD & processing time, so in theory the bulletin and processing time will not move in 2 years....
http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem...
also the target is to reduce the EB backlog to 79558 by end of FY 09 is totally B.S.
234,043-79558 > 150k.
how in the world can they approve 150k EB visa in the next 6 months while the annually quota is 140k and more than half of them are used already.
USCIS only giving illusion to the public that they are doing a good job and making progress.
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to springaround:
How is this possible - I thought that there were more than 700K pending EB applications?
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to PD4May2006:
The devil is always in the details. In order for USCIS to appear half competent and to have yet another excuse to charge more and do less. USCIS considers a case lo be backlogged ONLY if it (PD) is current. That fact alone eliminates the majority of backlogged cases. The other old strategy still applies, issuing RFEs for anything they feel like, even documents already sent with the filing; therefore those cases are pending but not backlogged. No wonder they boasts themselves as being hard at work with all the cases, when in fact it is all BS. There is less transparency than ever in this agency.
GM does a much better job managing their car company than USCIS our cases. Every USCIS official is unionized and they can only process 10 cases a day so that they wont make those less productive feel bad. BTW, sending out an RFE is processing a case. Maybe we can get Obama to intervene here too!
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