We filed our I-140(NIW) at VSC in Nov 2002. Everyone we know filed after us has been approved. Nothing happened to our case and the processing date for this catagory on the internet stays on OCT 2002 for a long time then it changed to Jan 2003 suddenly. Our lawyer, Mr Fang Peng, called and followed up a couple of times, it finally got approved two weeks ago. I also want to say thanks to Fang Peng, while we were waiting, there are so many uncertainties to our status, I am worried and called a lot of times to Mr Fang. He was always patient and provided options to us. His fee is low compared to other. We consulated someone who put ads on our local newspaper, it would cost $9,000 to our case. We paid $3,000. However, I heard the fee is $3,500 now. I think the easy access to the lawyer is very important when you need a lot of consulting.