See the 2nd table. A “C” means all visa change-of-status requests from those countries are now “current”. Until now they were backlogged to 2003.

No, that means immigrant numbers are available. Welcome to the queue, which is still backed up to 2001 courtesy of Table 1.

This is an annual process and they go fast.

In otherwords, this is just like last year. And the year before. and the one before that.