Cap Gap is the time between the official end-date listed on your Employment Authorization Document (EAD card) and the official start date of an H-1B non-immigrant visa. Cap gaps are most commonly ...

The “Cap-Gap” is the period of time between the expiration of a student’s OPT and the start date of an H-1B petition. The “Cap” refers to the numerical limit of the number of people who can obtain ...

A Cap-Gap extension is a regulatory provision that extends an eligible F-1 student's OPT or STEM OPT employment authorization past the OPT/STEM OPT end date based on an appropriately filed “change of ...