While I’m gone the blog will not be active.
However, the forum will be.
If referral rumors start coming in about a possible early batch then try your best to handle them logically as you sort through them and try to figure out what is going on.
Everyone please play nice and listen to the moderators.

For those considering other countries, the JCICS has issued a statement on the status of several countries.
From the JCICS web page:

January 29, 2007 - Joint Council staff and the Board of Directors met with the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on Monday in conjunction with our in-person quarterly Board meeting. [...]

We are familiar with the Rumor Ratings (I hope). But let’s talk a bit more about how to rate a rumor.
There are a couple of things to consider:

The person or people giving the rumor. If only one person that no one knows is telling the rumor then you kind of have to keep it at [...]

It looks like I may be leaving as early as Sunday for an open ended trip.
The last time I had to go out of town RK tried to keep the blog going but he tells me he can’t do that this time. He’s going to be getting our daughter back and forth to school and [...]

The big question right now is still rotating around when the next batch will arrive. Will they do a quick batch before CNY or will the next batch come about a week later than normal?

Three agencies are saying another batch will come before CNY.
More than a dozen are saying another batch will not arrive [...]

I added a few columns to the review room information this time. When they were doing whole months it was pretty easy to see what rate they were going each month, but with a partial month thrown in it becomes harder. All I’ve done is take the number of days in review and divide by [...]