An H1B visa is a non-immigrant visa in the United States; this visa allows US employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations; this is good for 3 years and extendable to 6 years.
For those who are interested to know about H1B process, click here. For those who are interested in knowing the next steps. Read on.
First
Step: Labor
Certification. This is the initial step to most employment-based green card or
permanent residency process. Its stated goal is to "protect U.S. workers labor workers
In 2005, they started using a completely
electronic labor certification system, PERM (Program Electronic Review
Management). PERM is intended to reduce labor certification times to
under 60 days.
The Form I-I40, Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker is the form that needs to be completed and filed by the employer. In this form too, the employer will indicate the need to apply for adjustment of status from within the US.
If the priority date is current (this is the
date the labor certification was filed. This date appears on the cover
page of the approved labor certification) and the Form I-I40 gets approved, then
we move on to the next step.
At the same time, we can also apply for an Employment Authorization Document. This document will allow applicants to work for their employer while the adjustment of status application is pending.
An Advance Parole document will also be filed to allow traveling outside the US while the adjustment of status application is pending.
But to make all these things happen, the employer should be willing to sponsor and able to pay for the process. A good immigration lawyer helps a lot too!
Please join me in prayer:
Heavenly Father, today I set my heart and mind on You. I choose to trust that You are working behind the scenes on our behalf.
Please arrange everything. We believe in your immeasurable, limitless and surpassing greatness of Your favor.
I believe that You will make miracles! To God be the Glory!
Amen.