Hence, you will have to go to the category of country, type of preference (EB-1 or EB-2 or EB-3), and your priority date. And then add up all the numbers before your priority date cases, which will tell you how many cases are ahead of you. This information will help you to figure out roughly how far you are away from the visa cut-off date in the monthly visa bulletin. Once your number becomes current, then you go to the USCIS monthly processing times report which reports by the receipt date rather than priority date to learn how long it will take for the Service Center to approve your case.
Accordingly, when your pirority date is not current, the USCIS monthly processing time report is irrelevant. During the time when your priority date is not current, the important report is EB-485 Inventory Data Statistics and Month Visa Bulletin, and not USCIS montly processing time report.
Link: http://www.uscis.gov/USCIS/Green%20Card/Green%20Card%20Through%20a%20Job/I-485%20Employment-Based%20Inventory%20Statistics/FY%202013%20EB%20I-485%20Pending%20Inventory%20as%20of%2010_4_2012.pdf
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