EB green cards dispersed in 2006 by category

[for_gc]

Hi,

Does anyone know where we can get hold of the data for EB green cards dispersed for year 2006 by category ?

Regards.

[Jimi_Hendrix]

USCIS refuses to give this data to anybody. They are not willing to give any break up.

[mallu]

Originally Posted by Jimi_Hendrix

USCIS refuses to give this data to anybody. They are not willing to give any break up.

The sky will fall down if they do that

[immilaw]

Originally Posted by Jimi_Hendrix

USCIS refuses to give this data to anybody. They are not willing to give any break up.

Can't you get this information unde FOIA (Freedom of Information Act)?

[pappu]

Originally Posted by immilaw

Can't you get this information unde FOIA (Freedom of Information Act)?

yes and no. It is not easy. USCIS has also been sued for not giving the data by an org we know.

[logiclife]

Department of State, Bureau of Immigration statistics will have that information publicly available to all who want it.

You dont need FOIA to do that.

[mchundi]

The numbers for 2005 were released in jan 06. They were discussed then in this forum.
http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?t=78 (Making Sense of the New Released FY 2005 EB Numbers)
Please post the links when ever they release the numbers for the fiscal year 2006.

[GC_Optimist]

Most of the states had processed RIR cases till May 2002. N.J (05/2002) and
NY (10/2001) before all the applications were sent to BEC. So most of the
Applicants with these dates must have already got their Green Cards . Some of my friends with these dates have already got their GC some 1 year back.

It is Non-RIR cases which had 04/2001 processing times with NJ , NY being the states which were backlogged. It is these applications which would be
causing these delays. How many percentage of EB1 , EB2 , EB3
(Employement Category) applications might be in this process. ? If there are
less number of applications then Processing Dates may move forward to
2002 / 2003 for India.

[mchundi]

Originally Posted by GC_Optimist

Most of the states had processed RIR cases till May 2002. N.J (05/2002) and
NY (10/2001) before all the applications were sent to BEC. So most of the
Applicants with these dates must have already got their Green Cards . Some of my friends with these dates have already got their GC some 1 year back.

It is Non-RIR cases which had 04/2001 processing times with NJ , NY being the states which were backlogged. It is these applications which would be
causing these delays. How many percentage of EB1 , EB2 , EB3
(Employement Category) applications might be in this process. ? If there are
less number of applications then Processing Dates may move forward to
2002 / 2003 for India.

Based on the serial numbering in the pre BEC scheme, there are an average of 1k-2k peteions from california alone for the 2002/2003 years. Many Indians amongst them. Thanks the BEC's most of them locked their PD's (hopefully).
If u look at the distribution for the fiscal year 2005, EB-2 did not use much of the surplus AC21 numbers. So why is EB2 retrogressed for India and China now. As somebody indicated in other threads, the USCIS may have suspended the AC21 act. But if they did that it wud not have moved to 2003 at all. So nobody really knows their formula.
Unless the state dept releases the statistics for the fiscal year 2006, we dont know what actually is happening. One thing though, they need to further break down the ROW EB3 and establish cutoff dates for other countries as well.
What about EB-3 (Inda). Hopefully it will move to 2002 very soon. After that i think it has better chances of moving up than EB-2 (India) if the USCIS is following the strict 7% limit.

[ash0210]

Can any senior Guy/Guru confirm this...

"USCIS have suspended the AC21 act" is it so? And when USCIS suspended AC21?

Originally Posted by mchundi

If u look at the distribution for the fiscal year 2005, EB-2 did not use much of the surplus AC21 numbers. So why is EB2 retrogressed for India and China now. As somebody indicated in other threads, the USCIS may have suspended the AC21 act.

[viva]

test

[mchundi]

Originally Posted by ash0210

Can any senior Guy/Guru confirm this...

"USCIS have suspended the AC21 act" is it so? And when USCIS suspended AC21?

I only meant some provisions(relating to 7% country quota). This is already discussed by Gravitation in this forum. Sorry for the confusion. AC21 is congressionally mandated. USCIS can only interpret it and come up with an implementation as per the law. They cannot deviate much.