I am not sure the QC quotas are applied on the federal level, I remember lawyers telling me that the quotas apply on the CSQ level (i.e. QC controls how many CSQs are issued in any given year) and federal just assumes that all CSQs will get PRs in the next 13 months, so no quotas apply to already submitted federal applications. Not sure if that's how it works, just something I have heard a while ago..