borrowed from someone on Trackitt: PERM data for 2008 and 2009 is not in-line with what been said here unless there are way too many interfiling cases porting EB3 to EB2. EB2 filings from I/C for years 2008 and 2009 are as below 2008: 8892 2009: 5820 which is a total of 14712. if you bump this number by another 15% for porting applications, it will be around a 16K PERMs for this period (without considering the drop-outs and duplicate filers). EB1 and EB2 ROW are always been current and another 15K from EB1 and EB2 ROW petitions which is been current for past few years may not practically be true. Unless there is huge flood of applications for EB1, EB2 ROW and EB3 porting cases 80K applications seems to me as an unrealistic number.
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Because there was very little retrogression before 07 -- EB2 had been current until Oct. 2005 and EB3 were only retrogressed for a couple years. H1B abuse by Indians were much less serious before 07, too. It was common for a FY ending with unused H1B data.