My Interest

I noticed that FY06 H1B quota cap is almost reached (with 20K+ cases
approved and 20K+ cases pending) My question is whether a so-called
"premier process" (i.e. pay $1000 to guarentee a 2-week processing time)
help me to jump the queue (i.e. get priority over those "normal" pending
cases) therefore to secure a slot? Many thanks.

Boiler

> I noticed that FY06 H1B quota cap is almost reached (with 20K+ cases
> approved and 20K+ cases pending) My question is whether a so-called
> "premier process" (i.e. pay $1000 to guarentee a 2-week processing
> time)
> help me to jump the queue (i.e. get priority over those "normal"
> pending
> cases) therefore to secure a slot? Many thanks.

Do not know, but as it takes a couple of weeks and applications were
going in at 20,000 a month, I would expect it to be irrelevant for
this year.

The Employer pays, so why not, and of course not all those pending will
be approved.

Ingo Pakleppa (see Web site for email)

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If past policies are any indication, then it will *not* make a
difference. USCIS at some point announced that any application filed
prior to a particular date would be approvable under the cap, and any
application filed later would be denied (or rather, the employer would
be given the option to wait until October 1, 2006). As far as I recall,
they also refunded the Premium Processing fee for such cases.

Last year, they actually screwed up. The cutoff date is based on
guesswork, and they guessed so wrong that they actually approved about
10k more H-1Bs than they should have. If they had been guessing wrong in
the opposite way, they probably would have approved cases filed after
the cutoff date on a first-come, first-serve basis.

My Interest wrote:
> I noticed that FY06 H1B quota cap is almost reached (with 20K+ cases
> approved and 20K+ cases pending) My question is whether a so-called
> "premier process" (i.e. pay $1000 to guarentee a 2-week processing time)
> help me to jump the queue (i.e. get priority over those "normal" pending
> cases) therefore to secure a slot? Many thanks.


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