Please explain meaning of 'preadjudication' in GC processing

[smarth]

05/15/2009: Positive News from Nebraska Service Center on I-140 and EB-485 Processing Backlog Reduction Progress

AILA has reported the NSC update on its progress of backlog reduction for the employment-based I-140 and EB-485 (EB-3). Reportedly, the NSC will achieve its goal of four months processing time for I-140 and six months processing time for EB-485 (EB-3) by end of June 2009. Besides, the NSC will achieve its goal for processing time reduction to four months for EB-485 (EB-3) by the end of September 2009. More positive news is that the agency is "preadjudicating" certain visa number retrogressed I-485 applications such that when the visa number becomes current for these cases, they can act swiftly approving the cases. They are also conducting biometric recapture work for those whose biometric collection is older than 15 months and expired such that some of these EB-485 cases can be approved without rescheduling biometric collections at ASC for some cases. What a bright and positive news! Right on, Nebraska Service Center!!
Indeed, preadjudication for numerical limit cases is the initiative of the DHS Secretary Napolitano for this period of her efficiency directives and it is likely that other Service Centers and field offices are also following the directives. Preadjudication is also a way of reducing processing backlog in the immigration benefits applications.

[krupa]

Preadjucating means , technically 485 application process work is complete. If visa number available they could have aproved it. As soon as they get Visa number they will approve it. It is one step before approval. Food is ready waiting for lunch time :)


05/15/2009: Positive News from Nebraska Service Center on I-140 and EB-485 Processing Backlog Reduction Progress

AILA has reported the NSC update on its progress of backlog reduction for the employment-based I-140 and EB-485 (EB-3). Reportedly, the NSC will achieve its goal of four months processing time for I-140 and six months processing time for EB-485 (EB-3) by end of June 2009. Besides, the NSC will achieve its goal for processing time reduction to four months for EB-485 (EB-3) by the end of September 2009. More positive news is that the agency is "preadjudicating" certain visa number retrogressed I-485 applications such that when the visa number becomes current for these cases, they can act swiftly approving the cases. They are also conducting biometric recapture work for those whose biometric collection is older than 15 months and expired such that some of these EB-485 cases can be approved without rescheduling biometric collections at ASC for some cases. What a bright and positive news! Right on, Nebraska Service Center!!
Indeed, preadjudication for numerical limit cases is the initiative of the DHS Secretary Napolitano for this period of her efficiency directives and it is likely that other Service Centers and field offices are also following the directives. Preadjudication is also a way of reducing processing backlog in the immigration benefits applications.

[rajuseattle]

Good analogy to explain pre-adjudication process.

In the context of country quota for GC that we are born in india and we have to wait for lunch more than the RoW population.

What NSC is trying to do for retrogressed applicants is really good, atleast we dont have to worry about RFEs or EVLs in this bad economy, if USCIS is happy with our paperwork we submitted at the time of filing our I-485. But again its USCIS they have been notorious about changing their own rules in this game.

I am glad that IV's efforts are bearing some kind of fruits now and we are seeing things moving in right direction and we are seeing some positive news like this one on pre-adjudication of the applications from retrogressed countries like india and China.

Hope USCIS and Obama administration somehow recaptures the lost visa numbers from the past decade due to USCIS being slow in processing the backlog of AoS applications.

In 2007 USCIS used the FB based visa numbers to clear the backlog for india, hope they do something similar this time and get us all out of this mess. It is ridiculous to see folks from india are waiting in GC line bearing PDs from year 2000. I will be completing my 10th anniversary in Aug 2009..its been a long and bumpy ride for me and i am sure tons of fellow indians are going through the similar experience.

Please help IV...donate generously for the cause of legal immigration reforms in DC...if we dont' help IV, noone going to help us.