{"id":4621,"date":"2025-09-17T17:25:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eb1niwpath.com\/?p=4621"},"modified":"2026-01-07T17:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:27:16","slug":"uscis-announces-h-2b-cap-reached-for-first-half-of-fy-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eb1niwpath.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/uscis-announces-h-2b-cap-reached-for-first-half-of-fy-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"USCIS Announces H-2B Cap Reached for First Half of FY 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has officially announced that it has received enough H-2B petitions to meet the congressionally mandated cap for the first half of fiscal year 2026.<\/p>\n<p>According to USCIS, September 12 marked the final receipt date for new cap-subject H-2B petitions requesting an employment start date before April 1, 2026. Any petitions received after September 12 that seek a start date prior to April 1, 2026, will be rejected.<\/p>\n<p>Employers seeking to hire temporary nonagricultural workers under the H-2B program should note that this cap closure applies only to the first half of FY 2026. USCIS is expected to begin accepting new cap-subject petitions for the second half of the fiscal year (employment start dates on or after April 1, 2026) at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses relying on the H-2B visa program are encouraged to plan ahead, monitor USCIS announcements closely, and consult with immigration professionals to explore alternative workforce options or prepare for the next filing window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has officially announced that it has received enough H-2B petitions to meet the congressionally mandated cap for the first half of fiscal year 2026. According to USCIS, September 12 marked the final receipt date for new cap-subject H-2B petitions requesting an employment start date before April 1, 2026. Any<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eb1niwpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eb1niwpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eb1niwpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eb1niwpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eb1niwpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eb1niwpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4622,"href":"https:\/\/eb1niwpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions\/4622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eb1niwpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eb1niwpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eb1niwpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eb1niwpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}