It would seem you are also saying your claim is with the AMLEG docket system year 05 (2005?). We at AskNOD are really in the dark on this one. We were not aware that AMLEG has a docket system set up or what purpose it would serve as they are not part of the judicial system. If your claim lacks some of the Hickson elements or what is known as the Caluza triangle, then the VSO (AMLEG) may try to obtain the missing info to buttress your claim. If they have been engaged in this pursuit since 2005, as you imply, then something has gone haywire. They would ask for a delay to accomplish this, but not 5 years. Taking even a year to do so would strike us here as gross incompetence. Any info your claim lacks should be able to be assembled in short order (i.e. private medical records, buddy statements, medical examinations, etc.) AMLEG legal beagles, if they really have any, could do this in three months.

     The BVA says they are currently taking 155 days to adjudicate a claim from date of receipt from the AOJ-not counting any time while the files are in the hands of the VSO representing you. If your claim was properly supervised and all pertinent info supporting your claim had been filed prior to certification to the BVA by your service officer assigned to your claim, there should be no need for any last minute “review and legal briefs” as you are implying. However, if your claim arrived in D.C. without any preparation on your service officer’s part, and the evidence is insufficient to prove your claim, then it might take a year to glue it back together again.

     If you could give us a better idea of what it is you need to know, we could respond with a better answer. Try Dick and Jane speak We do speak legalese, but you have to speak it fluently for us to decipher it.