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Tamu, Thanks for the detailed and informative post. Jawad

I think you can apply for an H1 renewal 60 days before the current H1's expiration date. Atleast that's what I was told when I went to renew my H1-B at the Johannesburg Consulate. Last year my H1-B was to expire on March 13, and I was allowed to appear for an interview in the second week of...

Vijay, You've posted this question on three different threads. You could help yourself by doing a search on 'Tijuana', 'interview' etc and going through the results. A lot of folks have been kind enough to write down their visa interview visits in detail, you will just have to search and go...

Vinnie, From what I understand, when you goto apply for your visa, your current passport should still have 6 months validity until date of expiration left. So let's say you go for your visa stamping in May 07, and your passport is valid until December 07, you will be issued a new visa on this...

My 8th year H1-B / I-797 renewal request was recieved on November 27, 2006 at the California Service Center. Finally after nearly 5 months, it has been approved. I was notified by my lawyer that this time it was under-going security checks. Last year my I-797 renewal came through in less than 2...

Congratulations :D. If you are not going to be out of status, i.e. you still have some time remaining on your current I-797/H1-B validity, then I would recommend going ahead and applying for your I-140 premium and finally filing for 3 year H1-B (so you don't have to go through this yearly hassle...

abzy2004 is probably beyond his 6th year H-1B. So the only way to get further 3 year extensions is with an approved I-140. He was hoping, instead of applying for a one year H1-B extension (which is the norm after 6th year H1-B), he would apply for I-140 Premium processing (which usually gets...

So I'd decided to goto Brownsville/Matamoros for my H1-B visa renewal this time. However it has now been over 4.5 months since my I-797 application was submitted to the California Service Center and finally after repeated enquiries from my lawyer, I was sent an email saying my renewal is being...

Where do you guys look to see how many cases are approved each day? Thanks.

As you can see from my post above, my I-797 renewal was submitted to the California Service Center on 11/27/2007. It's been over 4.5 months now and finally after repeated enquiries from my lawyer, I was sent an email saying my renewal is being held-up due to background security checks...

From what I understand, you can also do with a Mexican visit permit. Since you are not going inland into Mexico, but just the Consulate and back, you might be able to do without the visa. Besides it is a bit late for the visa now. A few folks have gone without visa/permits also, but I'd...

You should not have any problems because of a short stopover, especially since you have already been in & out of the US since. Good luck.

Hernesto, Please search the Consular Processing threads for more information on what you are looking for. http://www.immigrationportal.com/forumdisplay.php?f=41 Good luck.

Waiting :(

Hingo, unfortunately that was not possible in my case, as stated by my attorney. With all the lay-offs in our company around that time, all our Labor certification cases were withdrawn, and had to be applied afresh in 2004. I wish I had been able to port my earlier priority date, that would have...

There is quite a bit of in-consistency in the website. Several folks have had their cases approved while still showing TR on the website (even though they had applied for the RIR conversion). Others have recieved their Certification notice from their lawyers while the website still shows 'In...

So everyone who has gone to Mexico for revalidation has gotten his/her visa without any problems? I have heard people have had problems (having to wait from a few days to a few months) while having their H1-Bs revalidated in Canada and also their home countries. Anyone who has been to Mexico...