GC through Future Job -- after approval

[LCSilence]

This is one of my friends case:

My friend worked for his sponsoring company A for over a year, and due to personal reason, he left the job and but remain in USA on B-2 visa. After 6 months, he got another job with company B and started to work for B on a new H-1B.

But at the same time, company A promises to continue to sponsor him -- a few months after his resignation, his labor was cleared and they did concurrent filing with a future employment letter from company A. His lawyer promised him his GC is fine. Since 6 months past I-485 filing, he wanted to use AC21 to inform INS that he did want to go back to work for A any more.

The question is: will this endanger his GC? Or will this complicate his future citizenship application/GC renewal?

 

[jbm]

Originally posted by LCSilence
This is one of my friends case:

My friend worked for his sponsoring company A for over a year, and due to personal reason, he left the job and but remain in USA on B-2 visa. After 6 months, he got another job with company B and started to work for B on a new H-1B.

But at the same time, company A promises to continue to sponsor him -- a few months after his resignation, his labor was cleared and they did concurrent filing with a future employment letter from company A. His lawyer promised him his GC is fine. Since 6 months past I-485 filing, he wanted to use AC21 to inform INS that he did want to go back to work for A any more.

The question is: will this endanger his GC?

May be, it's about taking chance, if you have good lawyer and convice INS for your friend case, he should be fine

Or will this complicate his future citizenship application/GC renewal?

Ac21 is fairly new rule (only couple years old), so we don't know if it effectes negatively or not, but pre- Ac21 era, that was one of the consideration, even today people advise to stay with the sponsor company (orginal or derivative by using Ac21) after green card approve for atleast 6 months to prove your intention, for your friend case, if INS has some red neck officer, he can think it's fraud, and it's your friend and his lawyer responsiblity to convice them it's not