{"id":112,"date":"2007-04-04T08:41:13","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T08:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/india\/annual-h-1b-visa-cap-met-in-one-day"},"modified":"2007-04-04T08:49:12","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T08:49:12","slug":"annual-h-1b-visa-cap-met-in-one-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/india\/annual-h-1b-visa-cap-met-in-one-day","title":{"rendered":"Annual H-1B visa cap met in one day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNET News <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2061-10788_3-6173035.html?part=rss&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20&amp;subj=news\">is reporting<\/a> this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Tuesday that it had received 150,000 applications as of Monday afternoon for the controversial work permits, which allow foreigners with a bachelor&#8217;s degree in their area of specialty to be employed in the United States for up to six years.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s more than enough applications to meet the cap for the visas, which currently stands at 65,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This used to take many months in previous years.\u00c2\u00a0 Last year it took two months.\u00c2\u00a0 And I&#8217;ve heard that the cap does not apply to Indians and Chinese, but I am not sure of the accuracy of that information. But in any case, this is an interesting development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNET News is reporting this: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Tuesday that it had received 150,000 applications as of Monday afternoon for the controversial work permits, which allow foreigners with a bachelor&#8217;s degree in their area of specialty to be employed in the United States for up to six years. That&#8217;s more than enough &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/india\/annual-h-1b-visa-cap-met-in-one-day\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Annual H-1B visa cap met in one day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}