{"id":273,"date":"2011-02-02T12:39:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T20:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigrationmeng.com\/attorney\/?p=273"},"modified":"2011-02-02T12:39:13","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T20:39:13","slug":"uscis-reaches-fy-2011-h-1b-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigrationmeng.com\/attorney\/2011\/02\/uscis-reaches-fy-2011-h-1b-cap\/","title":{"rendered":"USCIS Reaches FY 2011 H-1B Cap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that H-1B petitions\u00a0 reached the statutory cap for fiscal year (FY) 2011 on Jan. 27, 2011.\u00a0 USCIS notified the public that Jan. 26, 2011 was the final receipt date for new H-1B specialty occupation petitions requesting an employment start date in FY2011.<\/p>\n<p>The final receipt date is the date on which USCIS determines that it has received enough cap-subject petitions to reach the limit of 65,000.\u00a0 Properly filed cases will be considered received on the date that USCIS physically receives the petition; not the date that the petition was postmarked.\u00a0 USCIS will reject cap-subject petitions for new H-1B specialty occupation workers seeking an employment start date in FY2011 that arrive after Jan. 26, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>USCIS will continue to accept and process petitions filed to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>extend the amount of time a current H-1B worker may remain in the U.S.;<\/li>\n<li>change the terms of employment for current H-1B workers;<\/li>\n<li>allow current H-1B workers to change employers; and allow current H-1B workers to work concurrently in a second H-1B position.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that H-1B petitions\u00a0 reached the statutory cap for fiscal year (FY) 2011 on Jan. 27, 2011.\u00a0 USCIS notified the public that Jan. 26, 2011 was the final receipt date for new H-1B specialty occupation petitions requesting an employment start date in FY2011. The final receipt date is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigrationmeng.com\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigrationmeng.com\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigrationmeng.com\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigrationmeng.com\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigrationmeng.com\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/immigrationmeng.com\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/immigrationmeng.com\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigrationmeng.com\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigrationmeng.com\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigrationmeng.com\/attorney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}