H-1B Questions and Answers: F-1, OPT and cap-gap

This is where H-1B workers, students and families ask about their own situation and hear from people who have been through it. Ask about transfers, layoffs and the 60-day grace period, the lottery, RFEs, extensions, green cards or OPT. Answers come from community members and the H1BVisaJobs team.

Changing employers is one of the most common situations: of the 1,650,584 certified labor condition applications from FY2022 to FY2026 that record it, 289,369 (17.5%) were for a change of employer, according to U.S. Department of Labor LCA disclosure data analyzed by H1BVisaJobs.