{"id":223508,"date":"2016-03-21T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T20:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=223508"},"modified":"2016-03-21T06:00:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T20:00:24","slug":"cnmi-guam-exempt-h1b-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cnmi-guam-exempt-h1b-cap\/","title":{"rendered":"CNMI, Guam are exempt from the H1B Cap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On page 20 of the March 18, 2016, Saipan Tribune, I read an article, \u201cUSCIS will accept the H-1B petitions for FY\u2019 17 beginning April 1.\u201d Please be informed that the information contained in that article does not apply in the CNMI and Guam; we are exempt from the H1B cap, at least until Dec. 31, 2019 (see Public Law 110-229)<\/p>\n<p>I just filed an H1B in January and it was approved. The employee will be coming this month.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line, don\u2019t wait until April 1 to file your H-1B petition. You can do it when you need an employee who meets the H-1B requirements\u2014at least until Dec. 31 , 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shirley Dotts<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>SPHR, SHRM-SCP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On page 20 of the March 18, 2016, Saipan Tribune, I read an article, \u201cUSCIS&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[508,1275,38,119],"class_list":["post-223508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-fy","tag-public-law","tag-saipan-tribune","tag-uscis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}