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!!