---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 656.11"
title: "20"
number: "656.11"
heading: "Substitutions and modifications to applications."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/656.11"
---

# §656.11. Substitutions and modifications to applications.

- (a) Substitution or change to the identity of an alien beneficiary on any application for permanent labor certification, whether filed under this part or [20 CFR part 656](/cfr/20/part656.md) in effect prior to March 28, 2005, and on any resulting certification, is prohibited for any request to substitute submitted after July 16, 2007.
- (b) Requests for modifications to an application will not be accepted for applications submitted after July 16, 2007.

## Notes

### Amendments

[72 FR 27944, May 17, 2007]

### Authority

Authority: 8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(5)(A), 1182(p)(1); sec.122, Public Law 101-649, 109 Stat. 4978; and Title IV, Public Law 105-277, 112 Stat. 2681.

### Source

Source: 69 FR 77386, Dec. 27, 2004, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[72 FR 27944, May 17, 2007]