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having worked 5 months on an H1-B and quitting. Is it necessary to go through the lottery again if I find employment once more? If not, how long before having to go through the lottery again?
Was your previous H1B counted against quota, if yes, you don't need to go through lottery again.
Hi Peter, Thanks a lot for this initiative :) I am a 28 yr old Software Engineer working in India (Citizenship - India, unmarried). Have around 3 years of experience in IT. My father is a GC holder & he has filed a family based petition for me. My priority date is Nov 7, 2017. Actually, my father was going to wait till he was a naturalized US citizen & then file for my petition, but Trump's activities (cutting off le…
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Yeah, as someone also on a TN, I'd love to hear more. I'd also love to know what the renewal process has been like for people that have been in the USA for a while (I've been here for 4 years and am looking to renew next October).
CBP (and USCIS) is just getting tougher on TNs, sometimes applying standards/requirements that don't exist, and really gives no deference anymore to the issuance of a previous TN when the TN is being "renewed."
Does the category (e.g. Engineer vs Computer Systems Analyst) matter?
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To the person who downvoted this. Why?
You're replying as if you are Peter, but you are not. And to make matters worse, I'm pretty sure you are wrong. This is not the point of a B1 visa. A B1 visa is about temporarily doing business in the US such as negotiating contracts, not using the visa to set up a business.
FYI, you can set up a US business without setting foot in the country.
It looks like a hanging threat of deportation for maybe 10,000 people +
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I see. So, will the "ebb and flow", bring down my wait time from 800 years to 300 years?
Why ask a question if you don't want to hear the answer?
But, no immigration attorney will ever say that truth to the H1B visa holders from India. I had asked this exact same question to my company attorney 10 years ago and the answer was exact same, wait for 5-10 years.
There are around ~70k software engineer coming to US from India, and everyone of them is told the same lie by their attorneys.
While most of these folks from India wait for their green card for rest of their life, attorneys make a fortune renewing their H1B every year.
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Yes. We did that. The reply from USCIS had nothing other than the standard reply. They didn't tell me anything in the interview. Just took all my papers.
That makes no sense. I would have the Congressman's office reach out again. What's your area of expertise?