I just heard back last week that my H1B visa has been denied on the grounds that it wasn't a "speciality occupation". This was a shocker since I work for a legitimate big data consulting firm (and work on Spark, Hadoop, Kafka). I have 4 months left on my OPT, and was wondering if the top tech companies would be willing to hire me and transfer me to a remote office (say Canada or UK) given that I only have 4 months of OPT left. My hope is that they would try to bring me back to the US eventually. Thanks for all your help folks!
No chance. Looking for a new role, interviewing and other process will take 1-1.5 months min.
@tadh - I agree that it will take 1-1.5 months. Is the assumption then that it doesn't make sense for the company to hire me since I will not be getting an H1B? My understanding was that some companies will hire you anyway - they just care about good talent.
Most companies I’ve interviewed with ask how much time I’ve left on my visa. Some companies have min requirement of at least 18 months left on visa before they even start the process.
Try Amazon. At least one good thing it does is immigration.
Thanks for the tip. Will reach out to Amazon
My friend got an Amazon offer on March 10 and they filed for his H1B in the first week of April. Go all in on large corporations, good luck.
Startups are very fast too.
Go all in for big companies.
H1B was a good thing until consulting firms ruined it.
What was the role? Curious why it wasn’t a “specialty occupation”
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What's your educational background? Do you have MS CS?
I have a bachelor's degree in CS but 2.5+ years of experience