There are some exceptions to this rule. If your country is in agreement with the U. The list of member countries is here. The expiration date of your I card should match the expiration date on the H-1B approval notice. However, if your passport expires before the end date of your H-1B approval notice, you may not be admitted to the United States for the full-term of your visa and your I card will expire on the date your passport expires. If this happens, please contact us so we can discuss how to maintain and extend your status.
If your passport is renewed within 30 days of your entry, then you may be able to present your passport to a Deferred Inspection united to have a new I card issued. If you receive a new I approval notice extending your stay prior to your departure, be sure to present the I approval with the latest validity date to ensure that your I card will have the latest expiration date. In addition, you should be aware that CIS requires all non-U.
You can notify CIS of any change of address online. You may begin work for an employer while your application for a Social Security Number is pending. It takes approximately 10 business days from the time you enter the United States for your entry data to be entered into DHS systems and made available for verification purposes.
You may therefore wish to wait 10 business days after entry to file the application for an SSN, to minimize verification difficulties. Note that if you depart the U. You may then have to reapply for an SSN upon your re-entry to the U. We therefore recommend that you remain in the U. Be sure to keep evidence of time spent outside the U. Evidence can include exit and entry stamps in your passport, plane tickets, itineraries, credit card statements, etc.
Please contact our office if you would like to initiate a permanent residence application. We recommend beginning the permanent residence application as early as possible so that you may be eligible to extend your H-1B status beyond the six 6 year limit. If you would like a hard copy of the H-1B petition and approval notice mailed to you, or you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact the attorney or paralegal that handled your case.
It is our pleasure to assist you in this matter. If you do not do so, we cannot be responsible for tracking this information. Your spouse and any dependent children will need to present the following documents when they apply for their H-4 visas: A copy of your H-1B approval notice Application Form DS, Nonimmigrant Visa Electronic Application Their machine-readable passports valid for at least six months beyond your intended period of stay Two color, passport-style photographs each if unable to upload photos to their DS They may also be required to present a copy of your H-1B petition documents, their birth certificates with certified translation, if applicable , marriage certificate, and copies of your financial documents such as pay stubs from your current employer.
Your machine-readable passport valid for at least six months beyond your intended period of stay. Valid non-immigrant visa stamp If travel is required, advance planning and early visa application are critical.
We cannot complete the DS for you, but we are happy to answer any questions. The applicant must clearly communicate what they do or will be doing and should be prepared to articulate the value that they bring to the U. You can also learn more about immigration filing processes and timelines on our website. During this appointment, you can speak to a USCIS representative one-on-one at a local USCIS office and ask general questions about your application, including your case's status and what your receipt number is.
InfoPass appointments are currently unavailable due to the coronavirus pandemic. It is okay to be curious about it, though! The first three characters of the receipt number represent the USCIS service center that is processing your case. The three letters at the beginning of your receipt number are codes for the different service centers.
After the three-letter service center code, the next two characters represent the fiscal year in which USCIS opened your case.
The United States government uses a fiscal year different from the regular calendar year for immigration purposes. This immigration fiscal year begins on October 1 and ends 12 months later on September The next three numbers in the receipt number represent the computer workday on which USCIS opened your case.
The computer workday counts all regular workdays except weekends and holidays. The last five numbers of the receipt number are the unique case number USCIS has assigned to your case. The order of the numbers will be according to the internal counting system that the USCIS service center handling your case has in place.
Now that you are a USCIS receipt number pro, you can file an immigration application with confidence! We can help you prepare and file your application for free. The main thing you will use your USCIS receipt for is tracking the progress of your application and your case status throughout the application process. There can be delays and an immigration lawyer can help by reviewing the H1B Visa status and possibly get a delayed application progressing again.
The time until final determination varies among the offices. The site shows in real-time how long the processing of each classification of visa petitions is taking. When you check your H-1B visa status online, you will see one of several possible H1B visa status conditions. These are:. Visas issued for entry to work in the United States are divided into several categories. One group is the H-1B category that permits college graduate-level, non-immigrants to work for up to six years in the United States in specialized positions.
These jobs require technical expertise in fields like information technology, accounting, engineering, mathematics, medicine, and more. In many situations, U. The notice assigns a digit Receipt Number to use as your reference in the future.
USCIS allows "cap" petitions to be filed six months before the start of the "fiscal year," which begins on October 1. H-1B "cap" workers can't get their H-1B status, and start their job, until October 1 at the soonest.
So many people want H-1B status in most years that there's a lottery just to be selected to apply. After several years in the planning, USCIS began implementing a new, pre-filing registration system in To get into the lottery, employers must submit an online pre-registration during a designated period USCIS announces. In the pre-registration lottery for example, employers had from March 9 to 25, to submit a registration for each employee they sought to sponsor.
Duplicate registrations for the same employee were prohibited. If USCIS receives more than 85, registrations as it did in , it will conduct a random lottery and notify "winners" soon after the pre-registration ends. In , starting on April 1 and lasting 90 days.
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