Do I have to inform INS now?

Delhiwala,

Since you are with Company B and have a valid Company B H1, you are fine and can travel using that. You wont need an EAD, AP.

It's always better to carry an employment letter when you are travelling.
 
delhiwala,

By employment letter it means that before leaving get a letter from your employer which says that you are a bonafide employee of the country and immigration officials should let you in because the company needs you to come back.

Also about your H-1 question, I think your H-1 is questionable if you left the Company A and Joined Company B and then again joined company A.

Because in a way your H-1 was transferred from Co. A to Co. B now for you to work for company A again it has to be transferred again.

In case you didn't do anything after you left Co. A (or you were on bench) it would be ok to use H-1 because it was never transferred to any other employer.

Also check some other threads everyone says it's better to use H-1 instead of EAD if you don't have 140 approved or until your green card processing is going on because god forbid if something wrong happens with your GC process, your status can fall back on H-1. If you are working on EAD, you are immediately out of status.

Check with another lawyer(specialist). Also try to see if you can get on to Murthy Chat with attorney murthy, you might get an exact answer from there.
 
Hi PremChopra

Thanks again for reply.
I had applied for AP last month. Here is the question - I have no problem in using EAD and AP for present company. But I just want to avoid getting transit visa for London. As I have valid visa stamp, Can I show the stamp for transition thru London and use AP at the time of entering to US.
 
Just remember that airlines will have to send the information about passengers to US authorities before bringing them. Although that should not create any problems you have to remember that you are using visa stamp and I-797, which is no more valid.
 
Airlines have to give the information about the passengers about address and stuff, not about what is their status in US.

Also when you travel or buy a ticket they don't take a copy of your passport. Transit visa is asked when you reach the connecting place or may be where you start and if you have a non-expired US visa they are not going to ask you any questions about transit visa.

For people using AP, USCIS gives three copies because one is for airlines, one is for yourself and one is for officer at POE. If airlines ask for a copy and you give it to them then that is what the information they might send to US authorities, if they don't ask for a copy no need to give it to them.

On the other hand if you use your non-expired US visa to not get Transit visa you are not doing anything wrong. All the airlines who need tranist visas say that there should be a US visa on the passport they don't ask whether you are using that visa or not, in a sense they are don't care about that.
 
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