{"id":273848,"date":"2018-04-12T10:37:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T00:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=273848"},"modified":"2018-04-12T10:37:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T00:37:22","slug":"breaking-news-uscis-will-conduct-a-lottery-for-cw-1-petitions-for-fiscal-year-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/breaking-news-uscis-will-conduct-a-lottery-for-cw-1-petitions-for-fiscal-year-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: USCIS will conduct a lottery for CW-1 petitions for fiscal year 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has received petitions for more than the number of visas available for fiscal year 2019 for\u00a0the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands-Only Transitional Worker, or CW-1, program.<\/p>\n<p>The cap for CW-1 visas for fiscal year 2019 is 4,999.<\/p>\n<p>As a result,\u00a0USCIS will be conducting a lottery to ensure that it does not exceed the CW-1 cap. USCIS will randomly select petitions received between April 2, 2018 and April 13, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>If USCIS receives your petition after April 13, it will be rejected\u00a0and will not be considered for this lottery. <strong><em>(USCIS)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has received petitions for more than the number of visas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1355],"tags":[1238,119],"class_list":["post-273848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-immigration-services","tag-uscis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}