{"id":1810,"date":"2016-03-24T16:10:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T04:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swlgpc.com\/en\/blog\/?p=415"},"modified":"2016-03-24T16:10:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T04:10:39","slug":"delay-on-premium-processing-for-fy-2017-cap-subject-petitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/delay-on-premium-processing-for-fy-2017-cap-subject-petitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Delay on Premium Processing for FY 2017 Cap-Subject Petitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Based on the past few years, it\u2019s reasonable to predict that we will see another lottery for FY 2017.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>From FY 2014 all the way to 2016 there was a lottery in the first week of April for the Regular Cap as well as the Advanced degree Cap.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">USCIS will monitor the number of petitions received and notify the public when the H-1B cap has been met.\u00a0If USCIS receives more than 65,000 petitions during the first five business days, the agency will use a computer-generated lottery system to randomly select the number of petitions required to meet the cap. USCIS will reject all unselected petitions that are subject to the cap as well as any petitions received after the cap has closed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">USCIS has temporarily adjusted its current premium processing practice based on historic premium processing receipt levels and the possibility that the H-1B cap will be met in the first five business days of the filing season. In order to prioritize data entry for cap-subject H-1B petitions, USCIS will not begin working on premium processing for H-1B cap-subject petitions requesting premium processing until May 16, 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This means that employers requesting premium service may not see USCIS\u2019 action \u2013 i.e., an approval, request for evidence (RFE) or denial on their H-1B cap petitions before May 31, 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the past few years, it\u2019s reasonable to predict that we will see another lottery for FY 2017.\u00a0 From FY 2014 all the way to 2016 there was a lottery in the first week of April for the Regular Cap as well as the Advanced degree Cap. USCIS will monitor the number of petitions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}