Immigration Lawyer
Practice Areas: Immigration
If your spouse is in valid H-1B status, you can obtain H-4 status again. You either have to file an application with the USCIS to change your...
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You can remain in the U.S in H-1b status for a total of years - you can recapture any time you have spent outside the U.S. If your employer files...
As long as you are returning to the U.S. to resume your H-1B employment, you should not have any issues (unless you have other inadmissibility...
Did you ask the attorney you spoke with what a "No objection waiver" is ? Because the terms of your J-1 required you to return to your home...
Since you have held H-1b status within the last 6 years, your new employer can apply for the remainder of your H-1B time (6 years minus any time...
Even if there are a few days gap of being out-of-status, it is forgiven by the USCIS for immediate relatives of U.S. citizens.
Your employer and their immigration counsel should be handling this for you.
The instructions and filing addresses can be found on the USCIS website (www.uscis.gov).
If your wife remains in the U.S. after the expiration of her status, she will be unlawfully present, unless she files an application to extend or...
The regulations state that the applicant must be in H-4 status at the time of filing. If she is not in the U.S., she is not in H-4 status, so you...
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