I’m not sure what to think about the review room. I know we shouldn’t make big assumptions about things based on time in review. But it’s hard not to sometimes. One theory is that it appears the CCAA has changed their mind about the decision last year to review people as soon as possible so [...]

Finally!!!!

For those who are new’ish here, if you’ll look down on the right hand column a bit you’ll see a section titled Important Posts. The first post there gives a look around the site from about a month ago. The only big change since then is the addition of the GlitterGirl and TwinkleToes blog. I [...]

I don’t think I’m covering any new ground with this post. But I’ve seen people trying to work through some of the various theories out there and I figured we might as well put them all in one place. Before we talk about what would have to happen in order for things to speed up, [...]

We’ve done this exercise a few times before but it’s been a while and it is time to do it again. I believe that the best predictor for those who are within one to three months of a referral is still the polls. Only by knowing which days are heavy and which days are light [...]

I will be gathering information from the various CCAA visits and putting them out all at once. My intention is to have it all in one place 1) for ease of reference and 2) to attempt to protect the specific country/agency visit that the information comes from. I’m not sure if all of the U.S. [...]