{"id":15951,"date":"2018-04-06T22:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T22:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/?p=15951"},"modified":"2018-09-25T20:44:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T20:44:33","slug":"uscis-reaches-fy-2019-h-1b-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/uscis-reaches-fy-2019-h-1b-cap","title":{"rendered":"USCIS Reaches FY 2019 H-1B Cap"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning (April 6, 2018), USCIS updated the most recent news about H-1B that it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions for 65,000 regular cap and 20,000 master’s cap.<\/p>\n

USCIS also announce that it will continue to accept cap-exempt H-1B petitions. “Petitions filed for current H-1B workers who have been counted previously against the cap, and who still retain their cap number, will also not be counted toward the FY 2019 H-1B cap”. USCIS will continue to accept petitions filed to:<\/p>\n

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  1. Extend the amount of time a current H-1b worker may remain in the U.S. (H-1B extensions);<\/li>\n
  2. Change the terms of employment for current H-1B workers (H-1B petition requesting a change in previously approved employment);<\/li>\n
  3. Allow current H-1B workers to change employers (H-1B petition request a change of employer); and<\/li>\n
  4. Allow current H-1B workers to work concurrently in a second H-1B position.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Cite and refer to https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/news\/alerts\/uscis-reaches-fy-2019-h-1b-cap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This morning (April 6, 2018), USCIS updated the most recent news about H-1B that it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions for 65,000 regular cap and 20,000 master’s cap. USCIS also announce that it will continue to accept cap-exempt H-1B petitions. “Petitions filed for current H-1B workers who have been counted previously against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15952,"href":"https:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15951\/revisions\/15952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}