USCIS Processing times

[arielsvn]

Given the processing times for the different cases of USCIS, can I estimate the likelihood that a case will be processed in a given time??

I'll calculate what's the chance of USCIS taking 12 months to process a permanent residency application, and create an application that does the same for all cases in each office.

The app will have three main pages:

• Landing page, with general information and links to each one of the cases

• A page for each form type.

• A page for each form type and a specific office.

TODO

• Create script to query all USCIS endpoints and save the results as JSON
• Create Jekyll plugin to generate all pages from the downloaded data
• Convert USCIS data into the format required by Jekyll

[arielsvn]

Historic processing times can be seen https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/historic-pt

Processing times for USCIS can be seen on https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/ and explanation of how they are calculated

There're two main URLs, https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/api/formoffices/I-485 returns the Service Centers associated with the FORM I-485

And, https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/api/processingtime/I-485/SSC returns processing time information for FORM I-485 and service center SSC

[arielsvn]

References:

• http://immigrationimpact.com/2016/09/07/uscis-processing-times/

• https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/uscis-data-application-and-petition-processing-times

• Detailed data on some forms https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-studies/immigration-forms-data

• Statistics per quarter on each form type https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-studies/immigration-forms-data/data-set-all-uscis-application-and-petition-form-types

• USCIS moves the cases between offices https://www.uscis.gov/workload-transfers

• Petition to distribute case loads #helpTSC https://www.change.org/p/uscis-distribute-the-current-caseload-between-tsc-csc-vsc-and-nsc

[arielsvn]

Other ideas

It would be interesting to have a graph comparing the number of people that leave Cuba vs the number of applications for permanent residency received here. USCIS publishes historical data for all form types, and I'm almost sure the data for Cuba is also available

Ref:

• https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/cuban-migration-postrevolution-exodus-ebbs-and-flows

• https://oncubamagazine.com/sociedad/la-emigracion-cubana-a-eeuu-en-cifras/

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