H1B Visa new petition filing after one year gap

[RobertLukose]

Hello,

My maxed out date is 09-May-2018 but
I am travelling back to my home country on 20-March-2018

Questions -

(1) Will I be eligible to file new H1B fresh petition for year 2019 cap which starts from 01-April-2018
(2) One year gap i.e. 365...

[BGoswami]

Hi,
Need the forum's help in clearing a confusion.

I had an H1B approved in December 2009 and I started working using it from July 2010-April 2011.
After that I had my status change to L2 and worked using L2 EAD.
In between we were out of the country for 19 months....