That's why I posted it. I'm not too worried about it personally. I can have my current, temporary visa extended so I'm not too worried about having my career messed up by changes in processing. But it does impact my family's ability to travel and when my wife will be able to get employment authorization.
When the labor certification was submitted, the system was changed 2 weeks later. What normally would take 6 months became a 2 year wait. Now, with just 6 weeks before our EAD's and Advancecd Parole were to be issued, the dates get pused back by months and years! But I cannot believe that the permanent residency status could be granted that much more quickly!
Unless they are pulling everyone off of those other tasks and are just focusing on getting green cards done. After all, with a green card, you don't need the other documents.
On the other hand, this is a good thing, because there was no reason for the government to take years to do this work (I mean it wasn’t in the law that it had to take this long).
Part of the illegal immigrant problem was that it took the government too long to process legal requests. Part of the solution should be to hire more workers and process every legal request in a timely manner.