{"id":863628,"date":"2024-10-07T07:47:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T02:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=863628"},"modified":"2024-10-07T07:52:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T02:22:49","slug":"us-visas-cap-gap-extension-rules-for-f-1-students-awaiting-h-1b-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/10\/07\/us-visas-cap-gap-extension-rules-for-f-1-students-awaiting-h-1b-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"US Visas: Cap-Gap extension rules for F-1 students awaiting H-1B approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Current regulations allow certain students with a pending or approved cap-subject H-1B petition to remain in F-1 status during the cap-gap period. This is called filling the \u2018cap gap,\u2019 meaning the regulations provide a way of filling the \u2018gap\u2019 between the end of F-1 status and the beginning of H-1B status that might otherwise occur were F-1 status not extended for qualifying students. <\/p>\n<p>The cap-gap period starts when an F-1 student\u2019s status and employment authorization expires and, unless terminated, ends on October 1, the required start date of the H-1B cap-subject petition filed on their behalf if seeking cap-gap authorization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current regulations allow certain students with a pending or approved cap-subject H-1B petition to remain in F-1 status during the cap-gap period. This is called filling the \u2018cap gap,\u2019 meaning the regulations provide a way of filling the \u2018gap\u2019 between the end of F-1 status and the beginning of H-1B status that might otherwise occur were F-1 status not extended for qualifying students. The cap-gap period starts when an F-1 student\u2019s status and employment authorization expires and, unless terminated, ends on October 1, the required start date of the H-1B cap-subject petition filed on their behalf if seeking cap-gap authorization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-863628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}