Expert Suggestion Plz.

[faitas]

Hi Jaxen,

I am working on EAD for almost 9 months. I H1-B expired on 07 March, 2003.

I only used 3 years and 5 months of my H1-B, though I am in US for about 5 yrs. I studied here and got the H1-B sponsorship while studying.

My 485 is pending (ND November, 2001, FP in Feb'03.)

What are my option to go back to H1-B if I want to use the rest of my H1-B timeframe. (6 yrs - 3 years and 5 months = 2 years and 7 months).

I know, I can renew my EAD as long as my I-485 is processing.

Just want to know, is that option is still open for me or not. Can I do it from US ??

Any good lawyer, I can contact to for this kind of cases.

Any suggestion would be highly appreciated. I heard different things from different group of people.

Thanks in advance.

 

[ginnu]

Your current status is AOS pending, if you again want to be on H1 status, your employer should file NEW H1 petition with BCIS (you can not extend H1 as your H1 expired March 2003) for you, it is will take 5-6 months to get H1 approval, but if you file with premium processing it may be approved in 15-20 days ($1000 Extra fee). You will not get any I-94 attached with new H1 approval notice. Once you get New H1 approval Notice go out of US and get H1 visa in your passport and enter US with H1 and you will get new I-94 at POE with H1 status and then Inform your employer HR that you are on H1 and want to maintain H1 status so that they can update the records with them.