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How to Secure Your H-1B Visa is a practical guide that takes the mystery out of hiring foreign professionals for US employment and teaches H-1B employees and employers how to optimize petition outcomes.
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
The H-1B Annual Quota
Eligibility for H-1B Status
Complementary Roles of the H-1B Employee, Sponsor, and Attorney
Employer Inputs to the H-1B Process
Employee Inputs to the H-1B Process
Labor Condition Application (LCA) Compliance
H-1B Investigations and Penalties
Maintaining H-1B Status
Termination of H-1B Employment
H-1B AlternativesAbout this book
"James Bach and Robert Werner’s How to Secure Your H-1B Visa is written for both employers and the workers they hire." Andrew Hacker, "The Frenzy about High-Tech Talent", The New York Review of Books, July 9, 2015
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:- quotas and exemptions
- RFEs and consular interviews
- dual representation by the employer’s lawyer
- LCA compliance, auditing, and penalties
- serial H-1B employers
- termination and benching regulations
- reconciling filing deadlines with expiration dates
- transitioning from academic to affiliated to private H-1B employment
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: How to Secure Your H-1B Visa
Book Subtitle: A Practical Guide for International Professionals and Their US Employers
Authors: James A. Bach, Robert G. Werner
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4729-6
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0), Apress Access Books
Copyright Information: James A. Bach and Robert G. Werner 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4302-4728-9Published: 22 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-4729-6Published: 01 March 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 176
Number of Illustrations: 203 b/w illustrations
Topics: Business and Management, general