I filed for H1B April 12th, 2012 (under the Master’s cap) and just got an RFE notice this week.
The company’s handling the RFE right now but I noticed that they have until Nov 1, 2012 to meet the requirements. I know that the company is doing everything they can to meet that date… but even if they sent their RFE response (let’s say) next week, I’ve read RFE review times can be anywhere to 60days (which would definitely pass Oct 1 cutoff date). What would that mean for my application? Are there cases where people get approved AFTER Oct 1?
Cut off date is meant for the minimum time you can enter into US and start for the next year quato. If you do not complete before that, itis not a issue. then you can travel/COS will be effective from the day of approval.
Even I got an RFE notification today under California center… I got filed on 30 April regular processing… Such a disgraceful moment for me when I saw the RFE coming on 14th Sept (2 weeks before Oct 1)… Still havent got any mail yet informing what is this all about… The frustrating wait continues… :((