Didnt receive the receipt notice. Need to upgrade to premium

[oracledba]

Hi Guys,

My company sent the h1b extension application to INS on 06/17/09 which they received it on 07/07/09. I havent received the receipt notice till now.But i can see the EAC # at the back of the cashed check.

Below are my questions :-

1) How much time it takes to receive the receipt notice. Does the time starts from the date the application was sent or date received by INS?

2) I need to upgrade to premium processing and my attorney is asking me to wait until receipt notice. Has anyone an idea if i can file for the premium processing without the receipt notice and just the copy of the cased check?

3)company HR called up USCIS and they are saying to wait for 30 days which means from 07/07/09 and then let us know if you dont receive it?

 

[ginnu]

Hi Guys,

My company sent the h1b extension application to INS on 06/17/09 which they received it on 07/07/09. I havent received the receipt notice till now.But i can see the EAC # at the back of the cashed check.

Below are my questions :-

1) How much time it takes to receive the receipt notice.
---------------------7-10 days from the date USCIS gets petition.
Does the time starts from the date the application was sent or date received by INS?
---------------------from the date recieved.
2) I need to upgrade to premium processing and my attorney is asking me to wait until receipt notice.
-------------------Lawyer is correct.
Has anyone an idea if i can file for the premium processing without the receipt notice and just the copy of the cased check?
--------------------- your employer should get filing reciept.
3)company HR called up USCIS and they are saying to wait for 30 days which means from 07/07/09 and then let us know if you dont receive it?
------------------------ HR may have called 1800 number and they dont provide correct info and they are not USCIS officers.

Read the below info:

• Matthew Oh Attorney Reporting


• There are two theories for the cause of the H-1B cap number not being exhausted. One theory is the impact of economic down-turn, and the other theory is number of employer withdrawals of the petitions, denial or revocation of the petitions by the agency. Without doubt, both factors have been affecting the cap situation. However, report indicates that "a USCIS spokesman, in an e-mail, said the reason for the decline is that the number of denials, withdrawals of applications and revocations are "quite simply" exceeding the number of new filings." This phenoma is caused by the agency's massive RFEs demanding mountains of documents which are in a lot of cases unavailable for a number of reasons. The industry which has been most affected is IT consulting services, no matter how large or small they are. For these employers, nightmares are expanded to extension cases, not to mention new cases, producing RFEs and denials. The difficulty of these employers do not stop there. Their international travels are faced by the increased challenges at the consulates and at the port of reentry. As we reported yesterday, this is an extremely challenging time for foreign professional workers and the businesses that need services of these foreign workers. We do not know when this is going to stop and how the environment can change. It will be interesting to see what long term impact it will have on the future of this country, should this continue under the environment when there is no change in the country's education system that can meet the international competitive challenges.