Recent content by balajik

it is advisable for u to travel only after ur approval date begins.

apply now u should apply in this year's quota (not next years!). if u apply in next year's then ur earliest H1B start date will be oct 2006 and u would have been out of status for 5 months. so apply right away and put ur start date as 6 months from now. u wll lose 4 months F1- tax rates but u...

you should realise that visa and status are two different things. a valid visa is required only to enter the US. it can expire anytime after you enter and it will not make a difference to ur status. status is purely determined byt the I-94 card in ur passport- it has a date. for u, the date will...

I wouldnt advise you to travel in the OPT period as the visa status is in a transition state. It is better to travel only after you get your H1/H4 papers

in many ways, it would have been best if you could apply for OPT and EAD AFTER your wife joins you. there is the slimmest chance that the immigration officer at the port of entry (PoE) could just turn your wife away saying that the husband has applied for OPT and hence will start working and the...

dear lucy thanks for the reply. we just got married and my wife hasnt started graduate school yet. she still has to apply to graduate school and will start only (hopefully) in fall 2006. my H1B approval papers will be here before she attends grad school and hence my F1 status would have...

Hi: I am currently PhD student. I might be completing my PhD by Oct 2005. I am thinking of applying for OPT starting Nov 2005. My wife has already got her F-2 visa,but she will be coming to US in Oct first week. Her visa is valid for 1-year and the expiration date is in May 2006. Now, 1) If i...

I suggest that your wife try in the state universities and not in private universities as only "Educational Institutions" that are not for profit are allowed to take volunteers.

I am from India, have completed my graduate education and just started working for a company in California. i will be receiving my H1B approval papers in October. My wife who is my dependent, and who, until recently, was on an F2 dependent visa, plans to apply to graduate school in the US. We do...

It depends on the university as well as the lab. I am in California at Berkeley and my wife works as a volunteer in a laboratory at UC Berkeley. However, Stanford said they were not allowed to take volunteers.

I am from India, have completed my graduate education and just started working for a company in California. i will be receiving my H1B approval papers in October. My wife who is my dependent, and who, until recently, was on an F2 dependent visa, plans to apply to graduate school in the US. We do...