Congrats to Rustem & Katerina!!!!!woohoo

As well as Chutima & Merrill. Congratulations to all!!!

That's cool, I assumed you ment ! instead of ?. Thanks



Mmmm..... So Good!!!

Hmmm, it may have been one or both filers that triggered my little script that email me when there's a new approval. In any case, congrats all!

Pretty strange to have so many approvals at the end of last week, but none for today. Gotta say, never a lack of excitement with CSC.

So glad you're enjoying the brownies. They're *special.*

Not that strange really. As we've seen before CSC issues most notices closer to the end of the week. Plus right now their online system is especially sucky, as it doesn't seem to notify some people of approvals. As in my case we get them by snail mail, which is to say the following week.

Waaaiiiiiit!!! what's going on wif mah hands. Oooohhhh these lites. Groooovy man.

What did you put into those brownies?!?

Это секрет!

wow, some great news overnight! congratulations to all recent approvals, but especially Igor & Elina

Thanks StP! Means a lot coming from you.

*mulls this over suspiciously*

*concludes am mean old woman who no one likes*

No! Quite the opposite, I'm glad to have you as a friend! I also greatly appreciate all the work you've been doing on your lists.

Haha - gratzies on all the approvals!!! Is nice to see some movement!! What is our count for last week now?! Has that blown Moxie's averages out of the water?!

Now to finish up the rest of the July-ers...

WTG folks... CONGRATULATIONS
have a GREAT day
Tracy
:-)

Wow....Wonderful news. Congratulations....

Congratulations to people recently approved

How is that there have been all these approvals, but yet my estimated date keeps moving down?

Because as people who have been waiting longer get approved it increases the average number of days to receive NOA2, hence making your date later

* shouting from way at the bottom of the list *

But we loves you, oh Unibrowed one! Brownie?

*grovel*
*grovel*
*grovel*


Yeah, it sure has. 2.4 approvals per day is starting to get close to pre-December averages. Let's hope it keeps trending up!

Defo - that is a great improvement!!

Oh...2.6 actually. Another August filer just got his notice in the mail (CRIS never updated). He's not in the timeline but I'm gonna count him anyway.

Yay!!

Oh - in the afternoon when I am busy the boards wake up!! Damn American times!! Ah well - I'll be able to board-hover while I await for EAD *and* people will actually be up

First CSC approval of the week. No timeline (second time this morning, when it rains it pours) but I'll count it. Love 'em or hate 'em, CSC always makes the week interesting. (and by interesting I mean "GAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!")

Kewlies!! So we're on a count of two now?

Only one for this week. The other non-timeliner was approved last week.

(Unless there's another approval this week I haven't seen.)

Hiya, This is the CSC K1 list as of today and it started with the (Sep 4 until July 19) all the rest they filed after Sep 4 none of them has received NOA2 so I didn't include them:

Sorry it doesn't look good but that's my first try and I coudn't figure how to keep the pix on the origenal size!!:















Done

GO CSC!!!! *cheering with a mouthful of browinies and one in each hand*

MOX - make more!

Conclusion:

July (19-31) total of= 63 approved

August (1-31) total 0f= 12 approved

September (1-30) = 0

please correct it if somebody has accurate info

No more brownies until I get taken off the bottom of the list! Embargo ON!


Just to continue my streak of 100% incorrect predictions, I have a really good feeling that we'll see our first September CSC filer approved this week.

and hopefully first October filer by 3rd week of February....or am I too optimistic

Laurence

Filers approved per service center by month. Percentage is % of filers approved. (larger is better)

Heres a couple articles postulating that the slowdown at USCIS is actually a plot by the Republicans and the current Administration to prevent applicants from voting in the upcoming presidential elections.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...8012502997.html

http://www.ilw.com/articles/2008,0128-lee.shtm

I wouldnt put it past our government to do it...

I don't buy it. Hispanics are voting Republican in droves these days, and many of the Republican candidates are counting on the Hispanic vote. Nothing would lose this election faster for the Republicans than if it were to come out that they were blocking immigration efforts.

I think the problem is much simpler to identify: Incompetence. Emilio Gonzalez is a Bush appointee, and like many Bush appointees, seems to have no idea how to do his job. Congress *wants* to throw money at USCIS, but Gonzalez has turned it down. He does not believe there is a resource problem and has placed the blame fully on the FBI. (the FBI, meanwhile, are going "huh? We have an average 2-week turn-around!")

I'm not so sure about your first point, however, I'm not sure so I'm not saying you're wrong .

I had wondered myself what motivation Gonzalez had for refusing financial aid. It is a very compelling argument that maybe Gonzalez has an ulterior motive driven by politics rather than being thoroughly incompetent. He accepted there were issues, blamed the FBI but never suggested a resolution other than that people would have to stomach the delays. Why on earth would anyone refuse financial help when the service has faced the largest volume of petitions in their history and are still offering a p!$$ poor service despite the revenue increase in the latter part of the year?

I am still amazed that NVC, who handle every single immigrant visa petition, can turn them around in 2 to 4 weeks on average. There's summat wrong somewhere.

If I had to guess, I'd say that the Bush administration instructed him to turn down any offer for funding. Not because they're trying to block immigration, but because they don't want a Democratically controlled Senate to win a major coup like fixing USCIS. (And just to be fair, the Dems do it too. It's all politics.) USCIS won't even begin to be fixed until President Obama appoints a competent Director.

In seriousness, nothing's going to happen at USCIS in this last year. Fixing immigration isn't a top priority for this administration so it's going to be cruise control until the next administration. We can only hope the next President makes USCIS a priority and urges congress to approve a budget that helps to make the changes that are so sorely needed. Although to be quite frank, USCIS is much lower on my list of personal wants. I'd rather see poverty, corporate welfare, the environment, and a few other issues take front row.


To be fair, NVC doesn't have near the amount of work to do on a file that USCIS does. NVC are basically a clearing house, whereas USCIS do actually put a lot of work into the individual file.

Isn't Obama lovely?

Agreed, these are priorities. My issue with this is that USCIS raised the fees by an average of 66% according to the Washington Post article. If they are to remain financially independent and therefore exempt from political accountability then throw the work out to private tender and make them accountable.



OK, but they still do name checks on the beneficiary and the FBI don't seem to be slowing them down much (in most cases anyway).

He's dreamy.


Completely agree with you on that point. I find it ridiculous that USCIS is supposed to provide security *and* support themselves. No other DHS department is expected to work under these constraints. If they want true security in the immigration process they'd make USCIS a streamlined tax-supported organization instead of the over-worked, under-staffed and mismanaged organization they are now.

I totally agree with Mox. And I also agree that there are a lot of issues that are more important than the USCIS that need to take the front line. If you think about it, if we weren't going through this situation, would we give a darn about the immigration process?

prolly not. Fair point.

I think I'd give a darn, but only the one

Very witty StP! Verrrrrry witty!

Can I get you a beverage?

*grovel*
*grovel*
*grovel*

haha, are you still at the bottom?

he is, and he's unaware that obsequiousness will just see him off the next list altogether

Hey hey - I go away for a day and this happens - well done to you both!!!

What if more than one sock has a hole in it, si man?

Hey Tbone, how's things? I just noticed your timeline and the latest note on it. What's that all about?

Yeah Tbone. I hope that all went well....

So...that would be "no" on the beverage?