The H-1B visa is the
gateway for the world’s best and brightest to live and
work in the United States as IT professionals, engineers,
scientists, professors, doctors, nurses, and researchers.
How to Secure Your H‑1B Visa guides employees and
employers alike through the maze of H-1B laws, policies,
and procedures. This road map lays out the whole H-1B
process from petition to visa to status maintenance to
visa extension and, ultimately, to permanent residence in
the US for you and your family. It shows you step by step
exactly how the H-1B process divides up between the
employer and employee. It identifies the points where the
two tracks converge and the H-1B employer and employee
need to pull in tandem.
Navigation icons tell
you at a glance whether a topic concerns employees and
employers equally or primarily one or the other. Sidebars
highlight pitfalls, liabilities, and disasters to avoid;
tips and exceptions to leverage for success;
administrative and enforcement trends and late-breaking
changes; and special conditions that apply to nationals
of particular countries, such as India and China.
Ancillary chapters cover complementary visas for family
members and H-1B substitute visas for professionals with
particular skill sets or from particular countries, such
as Australia and Canada.
The authors are
Silicon Valley immigration lawyers with 60 years combined
experience handling professional work visas. Whether you
are an international professional desiring to work in the
US for the first time, an international student in the US
wishing to remain after graduation, or a hiring manager or
HR specialist for a sponsoring entity, this short book
will show you how to secure, maintain, and leverage your
H-1B visa and answer all your questions about:
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Quotas and exemptions |
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RFEs and consular interviews |
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Dual representation by the employer’s
lawyer |
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LCA compliance, auditing, and
penalties |
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Serial H-1B employers |
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Termination and benching regulations
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Reconciling filing deadlines with
expiration dates |
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Transitioning from academic to
affiliated to private H-1B employment |
What you’ll
learn
As a result of reading How to
Secure Your H-1B Visa, foreign professionals will
learn:
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How to optimize the outcome of your
non-immigrant skilled worker visa petition. |
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How to ace your interview at a US
embassy or consulate and answer an RFE. |
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How to maintain or change your and
your family’s status in the US. |
Managers of US companies with skilled
worker needs will learn:
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How to include international
professionals in the development of your HR strategies. |
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How to coach your foreign hires to
cooperate in the petition process and avoid pitfalls. |
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How to avoid fines, penalties, and
other hazards. |
Who this book is
for
This is a practical, accessible, and
affordable short book for both individual foreign
professionals (especially IT workers) who want or already
have an H1-B non-immigrant specialty occupation work visa
(or a treaty-substitute or alternative visa to the H1-B)
and also for their US corporate sponsors (especially
small-to-medium enterprises and startups in the IT
sector), showing foreign employees and US employers how to
work in perfect sync to nail that H1-B visa, hang on to
it, and leverage it.
Table of
Contents
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Overview of the H-1B Petition
Procedure
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Eligibility for H-1B Status
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Complementary Roles of the H-1B
Employee, Sponsor, and Attorney
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Employer Inputs to the H-1B Process
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Employee Inputs to the H-1B Process
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Labor Condition Application
Compliance
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H-1B Investigations and Penalties
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Termination of H-1B Employment
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