grimreaper said:I agree with most of the points flagged in your kind of loooong passage
One thing I would want to differ is on the point that most of last applicants made it last time coz I was one among them.. last year there was exactly 8 days of backlog..
If my memory serves me right the Cap closure happened on November 3rd or 5th. And I was about to apply around that. I remember my colleague's app recd on 27th or 28th of Oct and he is already in the process.