Does anyone know if there is anything that those of us waiting for the 601A to be processed and hopefully approved can do in the mean time to save time in the steps after that. Mine was submitted back in November (7months ago) and not surprisingly, the processing time keeps increasing, now the average time is at 11-14.5months. As of now, my application is half way there in terms of time.

Should I be collection some civil documents or background check docs from my country of origin or gathering medical records... or anything else? what do they ask for after this process. In my case, I have an employment based application for PR, but for the hardship my mother (PR) is sponsoring it.