15 days backs all the USICS date for the Employment based categories were recent. Hundreds and thousands of people went about getting their forms filled, taking vaccinations ( costing between 500 to 700$)etc. Some people took off from work for a week to just finish this thing .
For consultants it means loss of pay .Some people postponed their vacations too, since applying for 485 requires all applicants to be in the US.

Today was the D-day for applying and what do we hear in the morning ? No more applications are accepted .
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Not sure why they they made the status current for all employment based categories and why they took so long to release the information that no more applications can accepted .

What a waste of time and money.