awilner said:In my opinion, I don't believe they randomly process the remaining applications, but rather process all applications for that date, and then close the cap and reject all subsequent dates, even if it means more than the established cap. At least, that's what makes more sense to me. But I could be wrong. Did the forum members from last year see two applications from the same NOC and the same date have one receive PER and the other be rejected because of the cap? This would definitely disprove my hypothesis.
Your opinion is wrong. They will not go over the cap even by 1. Last year when the cap was reached some applications from that day were processed and some were not. It was not a matter of time of arrival as courier services deliver differently and no order can be established. There must have been some random method for determining which lucky ones were the last few.