USCIS announced that it has received enough petitions to reach the numerical limit of 12,998 workers who may be issued CNMI-Only Transitional Worker (CW-1) visas or otherwise provided with CW-1 status for FY2017. The final receipt date for CW-1 worker petitions requesting an employment start date before October 1, 2017, was October 14, 2016.
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