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looks like our theory seems correct

hmm interestingly thoughts, I wish they'd have approval rates like this and higher the whole week though😅

I feel like a high Monday and low rest of the week is a common trend I've seen, maybe they're working on Sundays?

I don't think this is completely correct, it isn't that you adjust to CR-1, but instead you adjust to get the green card, with which you are allowed to work. Currently that green card takes between months to 2 years I believe(but could be wrong here) Idk about the rest of the post

Oh no they didn't deny me, I was just commenting on how those Denials took place at all after all this time

Denials after a year and months 😶

You're basically hoping that by September there is no more than 14 month backlog, guess there plan for 6 months processing(by a year from this september) for our k1 forms isn't panning out yet

Yes but look at the number, June dropped too

ouch quite the drop

are these rates falling? I wonder if July was started.

have you inquired with uscis? you should be able to this late in the game

will you run it in morning?

You gotta wonder what's going on when you see these daily drops in cases.

I am also a filer for this group, praying uscis speeds up

Yeah I figured, but was curious if today in the morning a rescan would reveal the system had issues, and that it'd properly show all the case adjudication. Cause otherwise it's hard to know if numbers of end of today are really todays or just today's AND yesterdays

any chance another scan is possible? (also could I see which script you are using?),

The question is does this include the small numbers from Tuesday and Wednesday for around 200 total updates for 2 days, or did Wednesday really hit 180+ cases touched?

But why is the rate of closed cases falling off a cliff? Its like they're giving rfes on purpose

woah this is the highest for april in a few days, especially considering all the may action

Could I get some details as to how you arrive at your data?

To be honest I sympathize, here are details from the webinar notes I took: So First up: USCIS backlog: 8.5 million cases pending 5.2 million are considered backlog (does this imply k1 cases within 13 months are not considered backlog?) Initiatives at a high level reusing biometrics video interviews social distancing "innovative solutions" (why is this still a thing?) drive through oath ceremonies Staffing Changes: The congressional funding allocated for USCIS(couple months ago) is being used for: paying overtime focusing on getting new staff first increase is mostly promotions and HR increases(someone correct me if I heard this wrong?) They finished off this section saying they are "now starting to get external hires" The cycle times were mentioned, they didn't change from when they revealed them in the MAY webinar. (by end of 2023, i129-f form should be processed in 6 months - we are currently still seeing 13 month+) Premium Processing Updates: still not available for everyone due to lack of adjudicators <- due to requirement of not slowing down normal processing of non premium filers AKA they'd need new adjudicators to just do premium processing without losing old adjudicators on above note, they said they are trying to hire more adjudicators At this point they made points on increasing work permit validity/ead extensions/more work visa related flexibility/etc... Technological Solutions - in this section they mentioned tech improvements to help streamline the processes in general Moving non-adjudicator work to non adjudicator work (I think they mean that some of the work adjudicators do isn't actually necessary to be done by adjudicators, ie: simple tasks, and that they were spreading the load so adjudicators could focus on adjudicator specific work - hooray for us in theory) Reassigning officers handling routine questions to adjudications -> Think this means theyll have less people answering questions(ie: support) and moving them to adjudication(again Hooray for us in theory) Replacing ministritative work/validation with system. -> they "system" should handle more work ie in theory less workload for adjudicators by freeing up work they actually have to do(hooray for us in theory) Remote office to office interviews -> They mentioned officers at one location could video interview applicants at another interview to spread load -> I think this is more relevant to naturalization and local processes(irrelevant to us unless causes less adjudications somehow) Digitizing files to enable virtual processing/adjudication (Will this apply to RFEs we get so we can respond immediately and not have to wait for mail and mail back? Other than that this may be too slow for people who already filed and not be relevant, less someone scans everyone's pending forms) Increasing forms for online filing (see my comment above) Last section was questions: (this was a little disappointing as they didn't answer my chatbox question nor give me a chance to phone in as time ran out) Notable answers: File retrieval backlog should be gone by July 2022(relevant to naturalization people, and as these backlogs clear people will be freed to work on more relevant stuff to us, again in theory) There was a question about where to reach out for people in weird limbo situations -> they didn't really give an answer it seemed Questions I wanted to ask: Considering Cycle goals by 2023, is there any chance we start to see an improvement soon/by end of 2022? Will rfes be answerable online any time soon? (hopefully relevant to all of us waiting for case to get touched and deal with rfe quickly if it comes) And that it

I'm actually waiting to watch the webinar today. Phone connected fine for audio, but the actual webinar part seems to "not be open to registered guests" not sure if anybody else running into this issue? EDIT: they changed permissions on the room and I'll be watching/listening in, if no one else does I'll update with what goes on

Heard there was a July approval as well

Is this the one that goes through an entire range? I checked the code and a very quick glance appears to imply it checks just your case.

I have heard there is a python script out there that auto looks at cases, and detects changes, is there any way I can get a copy of it? I've seen people using it to detect changes in ranges in the April/May/June months I believe. I'd like to modify it and play with it and see what statistics I can dig up myself.