http://www.lewslaw.com/US_Immigration_Updates.htm#10022007a
At a recent AILA Conference, Michael Ayetes (USCIS Associate Director,
Operations) announced, that during the months of July - August 2007, USCIS
had received approximately 800,000 employment based adjustment applications
(I-485s): 40,000 concurrently filed with I-140 petitions, 320,000 stand
alone applications, and 400,000 dependent applications.
Of the 140,000 annual employment-based immigrant visas available, second and
third preference categories are allocated 57.2%. If most of the employment
based cases filed in July-August 2007 were second and third preferences, it
could take approximately ten years of allocation to complete all these
cases.
Although USCIS has posted on its website that I-485 cases received on or
before August 9, 2007 have been entered into the system, a number of
attorneys have not yet received receipt notices for cases filed at the end
of June and July 2007. Moreover, some cases initially filed in Nebraska and
transferred to Texas have now been forwarded to the Vermont or California
Service Centers for faster processing of receipts.
USCIS is making every effort to process EAD applications within 90 days of
receipt. The processing of Advance Parole applications may be delayed due to
the number of cases filed.
A Biometrics notice will be issued even if a visa number is not available at
the time.