Cecora1

Occasionaly, in looking at some processing times web sites (i.e.
davehollis.com, etc.) I notice that someone will have received a second NOA
from say, NSC, in a 2 or 3 months rather than 6 months like most people. Why is
this? What happens that someone gets lucky enough to get a response way ahead
of everyone else. Obviously this is the exception and not the rule, but I don't
understand this.

Thanks!

Steve2003

The Service Center can expedite an application for a variety of reasons. All of which are rare and at the discretion of the CIS. The other reason is that, yes, sometimes an application can somehow find its way ahead of others. I know someone who go their AOS done in 5 months in Orlando where it takes 3 years normally. We both filied the same day and we are still waiting with another 2.5 years to go!