An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising: a processing system configured to: determine whether a calculated total number of cells over all configured subcarrier spacings, SCSs, of a source cell group and a target cell group during a dual active protocol stack handover exceeds a joint blind decode capability; identify, based on the determination and a sub-carrier spacing, SCS, of each cell in the source cell group, a per cell limit for physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, candidates to monitor, or non-overlapped control channel elements, CCEs, to monitor in a slot for each cell without control resource set, CORESET, grouping or with one CORESET group, and each cell with two CORESET groups if configured for the source cell group; identify, based on the determination and a SCS of each cell in the target cell group, a per cell limit for PDCCH candidates to monitor, or non-overlapped CCEs to monitor in a slot for each cell without CORESET grouping or with one CORESET group, and each cell with two CORESET groups if configured for the target cell group; and perform blind decoding operations on PDCCH candidates and CCEs up to the per cell monitoring limit for each cell; and a first interface configured to obtain a PDCCH from at least one of the source cell group and the target cell group. a processing system configured to: determine whether a calculated total number of cells over all configured subcarrier spacings, SCSs, of a source cell group and a target cell group during a dual active protocol stack handover exceeds a joint blind decode capability; identify, based on the determination and a sub-carrier spacing, SCS, of each cell in the source cell group, a per cell limit for physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, candidates to monitor, or non-overlapped control channel elements, CCEs, to monitor in a slot for each cell without control resource set, CORESET, grouping or with one CORESET group, and each cell with two CORESET groups if configured for the source cell group; identify, based on the determination and a SCS of each cell in the target cell group, a per cell limit for PDCCH candidates to monitor, or non-overlapped CCEs to monitor in a slot for each cell without CORESET grouping or with one CORESET group, and each cell with two CORESET groups if configured for the target cell group; and perform blind decoding operations on PDCCH candidates and CCEs up to the per cell monitoring limit for each cell; and determine whether a calculated total number of cells over all configured subcarrier spacings, SCSs, of a source cell group and a target cell group during a dual active protocol stack handover exceeds a joint blind decode capability; identify, based on the determination and a sub-carrier spacing, SCS, of each cell in the source cell group, a per cell limit for physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, candidates to monitor, or non-overlapped control channel elements, CCEs, to monitor in a slot for each cell without control resource set, CORESET, grouping or with one CORESET group, and each cell with two CORESET groups if configured for the source cell group; physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, candidates to monitor, or non-overlapped control channel elements, CCEs, to monitor in a slot for each cell without control resource set, CORESET, grouping or with one CORESET group, and each cell with two CORESET groups if configured for the source cell group; identify, based on the determination and a SCS of each cell in the target cell group, a per cell limit for PDCCH candidates to monitor, or non-overlapped CCEs to monitor in a slot for each cell without CORESET grouping or with one CORESET group, and each cell with two CORESET groups if configured for the target cell group; and PDCCH candidates to monitor, or non-overlapped CCEs to monitor in a slot for each cell without CORESET grouping or with one CORESET group, and each cell with two CORESET groups if configured for the target cell group; and perform blind decoding operations on PDCCH candidates and CCEs up to the per cell monitoring limit for each cell; and a first interface configured to obtain a PDCCH from at least one of the source cell group and the target cell group.