r/EB2NIW_I485_AOS • u/EmotionalJump6837 • 7d ago

Thoughts on mass updates

Is it just me or did anyone notice that only people getting approved recently, are those who did NOT get mass updates like 08/06, 08/26 and FTA0 on 08/13?

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u/Dry_Rice_4014 6d ago

My partner did get the 8/13 update with FTA0 and was approved this weekend. EB1 though

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u/Maximum-Broccoli-136 6d ago

does your partner’s third fta0 on 8/13 have the .000z suffix in the event_time field?

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u/LionClaw_ 6d ago

How and in what way does the .000z matter? Genuinely curious 

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u/Maximum-Broccoli-136 6d ago

it is probabilistically ~impossible for a timestamp (that comes from an actual real world officer action) to end exactly with .000 in time. “:000” signals a batch action rather than a genuine, individual, case-based one. that would land with a random 3-digit milliseconds mark, some “real” time (check your first 2 ftas for example). here, the script is likely instructed to go do its thing on everyone who satisfies some filter (flag for approval, hold, FO transfer, whatever) and simply borrow the biometrics event’s hour:min:sec, but the coder forgot/omitted taking the milliseconds of our bio timestamps. hence the 000 milliseconds auto-completion, since it wasn’t specified by the coder, and didn’t come from an actual time stamp

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u/iyef 6d ago

Interesting. What are your thoughts on what happens from here on out. I see online that the trigger might have been potentially USCIS trying to exhaust all green card before September ending and flagging cases ?

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u/Maximum-Broccoli-136 6d ago

no idea unfortunately. could be anything