Hello all,
1) I have a valid H1-B visa
2) This visa expired about 1.5 years back and I applied for an extension and I have a valid visa now but it has not been stamped on my passport.
3) I have applied for my green card and have received my EAD and advanced parole documents
4) My wife is a co-applicant on the green card and she has received her EAD and parole documents.
5) My wife works with a company that has sponsored her H1-B (even though she has an EAD card. Their reasoning was that she should be independent of my green card outcome)
6) My wife has received her H1-B receipt but has not yet got her approval papers.
7) We need to travel abroad.
8) When I come back, I have two options -->
a) use my parole document to get back in the US
b) get my valid visa stamped on my passport and use that to come back. In that case I need to wait for my wife to get her papers before travelling.
9) If I use option (a) i.e. use my parole documents to get back to the united states, will that invalidate my H1-B ? Will this invalidate the new H1-B that my wife is applying for and has not yet received (In all probabilty she will get it after we come back from this trip).
10) If I want to use option (b), is there any way to get it stamped here in the US without leaving the country? Both our passports show expired H1-B visas (expired for more than a year) ...
Any help in this matter is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
regards
1) I have a valid H1-B visa
2) This visa expired about 1.5 years back and I applied for an extension and I have a valid visa now but it has not been stamped on my passport.
3) I have applied for my green card and have received my EAD and advanced parole documents
4) My wife is a co-applicant on the green card and she has received her EAD and parole documents.
5) My wife works with a company that has sponsored her H1-B (even though she has an EAD card. Their reasoning was that she should be independent of my green card outcome)
6) My wife has received her H1-B receipt but has not yet got her approval papers.
7) We need to travel abroad.
8) When I come back, I have two options -->
a) use my parole document to get back in the US
b) get my valid visa stamped on my passport and use that to come back. In that case I need to wait for my wife to get her papers before travelling.
9) If I use option (a) i.e. use my parole documents to get back to the united states, will that invalidate my H1-B ? Will this invalidate the new H1-B that my wife is applying for and has not yet received (In all probabilty she will get it after we come back from this trip).
10) If I want to use option (b), is there any way to get it stamped here in the US without leaving the country? Both our passports show expired H1-B visas (expired for more than a year) ...
Any help in this matter is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
regards