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Archives for September 9, 2007
H1B visa expiration tip – don’t get caught out of status
A topic of interest to me is the US visa process and in particular the H1B visa. As many people in our industry either hire H1Bs or work on an H1B here’s a tip for you if your H1B visa will be expiring. Be sure to try and hop on either a TN or a tourist visa BEFORE your H1B expires… failing to do so may/will result in getting barred for a 10 year period from entering the US… ouch! One example I heard about recently discussed a person whose his H-1 expired. He then remained in the U.S. without working, believing that he “just became a Canadian tourist.” During this time, he wrote papers and polished his career, all the while staying in the U.S. He even got a new TN a little over a year later, going to a Mexico-U.S. border post. Now this person is barred from the US for 10 years. The reason – he was out of status an in the country illegally. This gentleman could have simply filed a tourist visa application on form I-139 to stay in status before his H-1 expired. That would have decontaminated him. He could have been purified for any future visas. (Source: Joe Grasmick’s Border Report newsletter)
H1B visa expiration tip – don’t get caught out of status
A topic of interest to me is the US visa process and in particular the H1B visa. As many people in our industry either hire H1Bs or work on an H1B here’s a tip for you if your H1B visa will be expiring. Be sure to try and hop on either a TN or a tourist visa BEFORE your H1B expires… failing to do so may/will result in getting barred for a 10 year period from entering the US… ouch! One example I heard about recently discussed a person whose his H-1 expired. He then remained in the U.S. without working, believing that he “just became a Canadian tourist.” During this time, he wrote papers and polished his career, all the while staying in the U.S. He even got a new TN a little over a year later, going to a Mexico-U.S. border post. Now this person is barred from the US for 10 years. The reason – he was out of status an in the country illegally. This gentleman could have simply filed a tourist visa application on form I-139 to stay in status before his H-1 expired. That would have decontaminated him. He could have been purified for any future visas. (Source: Joe Grasmick’s Border Report newsletter)