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USCIS says there won’t be a lottery for applications received on the first five days.
Please read properly before posting your own ideas of the H1-B process.
“USCIS will monitor the number of petitions received and will notify the public of the date USCIS has received the necessary number of petitions to meet the H-1B cap, known as the “final receipt date.” The date USCIS publishes information that the cap has been reached does not control the final receipt date. To ensure a fair system, USCIS will, if needed, randomly select the number of petitions required to reach the numerical limit *IMPORTANT* from the petitions received on the final receipt date. *IMPORTANT”*
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Rennie,
You have a valid point, but based on what was published today as a USCIS press release the following lines caught my attention:
“To ensure a fair system, USCIS may randomly select the number of petitions required to reach the numerical limit from the petitions received as of the final receipt date. USCIS will reject cap subject petitions that are not selected, as well as those received after the final receipt date.”
I am not sure if all the petitions will be involved in the lottery or not. I am also quite confused on how to interpret the sentence.
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The lottery will involve only the applications received the Final Recipt Date (wichh is the date in which the cap will be reached and superceed) and it won’t affect the application received prior the Final receipt date
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Regarding the mini lottery , here is the clarification from visapro:
If the USCIS do not receive enough petitions to reach the H-1B quota within the first five business days, it will continue to accept H-1B cap petitions until the quotas are met. The date on which a quota is eventually reached will be declared the “final receipt date” – i.e., the last date on which USCIS will accept cases filed against that particular quota. USCIS will then run a lottery to choose among the petitions received on that date. Cases received before the final receipt date would not be subject to the one-day lottery.
Ok. Many are confused about the mini lottery. Here is a link I found, they explained how this stuff works.
http://www.visapro.com/Immigration-News/?a=1219&z=21
They are saying that:
“If the USCIS do not receive enough petitions to reach the H-1B quota within the first five business days, it will continue to accept H-1B cap petitions until the quotas are met. The date on which a quota is eventually reached will be declared the “final receipt date” – i.e., the last date on which USCIS will accept cases filed against that particular quota. USCIS will then run a lottery to choose among the petitions received on that date. Cases received before the final receipt date would not be subject to the one-day lottery.”
I am guessing 20,000 Standard Cap and 1,000 Masters Cap applications.
OK, lets start a mini-thread on guesses as to how many applications they received on the first 5 days… (Not like it matters, but I think it could be fun!)
I’m guessing 50,000 Standard Cap and 15,000 Masters Cap applications.
USCIS does not say that there will not be lottery.
people just chill on a bear..all of us r in better shape then what we thought so just relax till you hear further..
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chill on a bear? LOL
So the news that we have…Im confused by the way its worded. Its great that the cap hasnt been reached but:
“To ensure a fair system, USCIS may randomly select the number of petitions required to reach the numerical limit from the petitions received as of the final receipt date. USCIS will reject cap subject petitions that are not selected, as well as those received after the final receipt date”
Sounds like they are going to wait until the final receipt day and do some sort of lottery. Is this the mini lottery thing? and to those of you who have previous experience/info, does this mean if you applied already you are in?
My company’s immigration personnle got back to all of us on behalf of whom H-1B petitions has been filed this morning and told us about the good news that the H-1B cap has not been met for both 65,000 regular and 20,000 Master’s cap. Since they have filed for premium processing, we were also notified that we should have the visa approvals within the next 15 days, although it won’t be effective until October 1st. It has been an amazing day for all of us who had applied for the visa, and as long as its a legit case through a legit company you should’nt worry at all. As fas as Mr. Raju - the aspiring immigrant who wants to come here and buy a BMW, I along with many others who have seen your weird and meaningless rambling over the quotas and visas on this forum for the past month - please do keep us all posted if at least one of your 5 H-1B applications gets approved.
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Well..In midst of all this jubilation we completely forgot Mr. Raju and his antics…
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Well..In midst of all this jubilation we completely forgot Mr. Raju and his antics…I still can’t believe H1B is so important for some people that they willingly sell off all their assets just to get it…
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For Official News from USCIS:
(Click on the Press Room from the Home page: http://www.uscis.gov)
http://www.uscis.gov/files/article/fy2010-%20H-1B-petitions-accepted.pdf
and BTW, that was just an expamle explaining the meaning of the mini lottery. I did not mean that Apr 7 is the FINAL receipt date at all!!! The final receipt date is still an unknown so for those who still didn’t file their application should file it ASAP!!