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USCIS Reaches H-2B Cap for First Half for FY2021

11/18/20 AILA Doc. No. 20111837. Business Immigration, H-2B Temporary Worker

USCIS announced that it reached the congressionally mandated cap on H-2B visas for the first half of FY2021. The final receipt date for new cap-subject H-2B petitions requesting an employment start date before April 1, 2021 was November 16, 2020. USCIS will reject new cap-subject H-2B petitions received after November 16, 2020, that request an employment start date before April 1, 2021. USCIS continues to accept H-2B petitions that are exempt from the congressionally mandated cap.

Cite as AILA Doc. No. 20111837.

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