indiandude1
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Situation:
Citizenship: Indian
Employment offer in hand. Start date Aug 1.
Current visa: H-1B (past the 6 year limit - have an EB2-NIW approval, visa retrogressed, PD not current).
Moving from a non-profit to for-profit. H-1B's exhausted until October 1.
Also preparing my EB1-EA petition.
The employer will sponsor me for an O-1 visa and I am working with lawyers for that.
Questions:
1. They are using my EB2-NIW recommendation letters (and some EB1-EA letters that I have) as letters for O-1. The letters clearly request that I be granted permanent residency. My understanding is that O-1 is a non-immigrant visa. Does this make sense? Can this lead to summary rejection of the petition?
2. Does this affect my existing EB2-NIW in any way?
3. They have asked me to wait until the O-1 is approved before I file my EB1-EA. I will obviously follow their advice, but is this normal?
4. If I get my O-1, will this make it easier to argue for an EB1-EA (many of the stated requirements appear to be the same).
Citizenship: Indian
Employment offer in hand. Start date Aug 1.
Current visa: H-1B (past the 6 year limit - have an EB2-NIW approval, visa retrogressed, PD not current).
Moving from a non-profit to for-profit. H-1B's exhausted until October 1.
Also preparing my EB1-EA petition.
The employer will sponsor me for an O-1 visa and I am working with lawyers for that.
Questions:
1. They are using my EB2-NIW recommendation letters (and some EB1-EA letters that I have) as letters for O-1. The letters clearly request that I be granted permanent residency. My understanding is that O-1 is a non-immigrant visa. Does this make sense? Can this lead to summary rejection of the petition?
2. Does this affect my existing EB2-NIW in any way?
3. They have asked me to wait until the O-1 is approved before I file my EB1-EA. I will obviously follow their advice, but is this normal?
4. If I get my O-1, will this make it easier to argue for an EB1-EA (many of the stated requirements appear to be the same).