They don’t want you to move on receipt?
They won’t coz from sept 11, it’s direct approve or reject. No RFE
They now can reject without RFE, but the normal process is still approval or RFE.
Wow
This is against equal opportunity law. They can never reject you because of visa. Fight back bro
Yes they can. Unless you have an unrestricted work authorization, it’s totally legal to discriminate based on work visa issues.
Yes they can. https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=6e4da38a-9c44-482c-9b9c-23cfcbf92ba0
Wtf. Usually you can move on receipt. I moved companies during the last premium processing suspension.
I'm sorry if this is a dumb question. By this did you mean you started working at the new company on receipt? What if it gets denied after you did? Has this happened to anyone?
You can start working just on receipt. I have done that twice. Luckily it got approved both the time.
These days it may not be worth taking the risk and joining on receipt as USCIS now can reject a petition without rfe putting you out of status
That is unfortunate. If the company allows, you can start working with them while your transfer is pending but it seems LI isn't willing to entertain that.
Transfer of H1B should take 6 weeks to 8 weeks. It does not take 6 months.
Exactly. Even last year when premium processing was suspended, it took people an additional 3-4 weeks max. Not months
Since Uscis is becoming more and more lazy that week thing is rapidly changing to months and can go to years if Uscis keeps their excellent pace
This is fucking bad. Fuck these immigration policies. I wish we had more choices and better infrastructure in my home country so that I wouldn't have to live at the mercy of these dumb people from USCIS who make these dictatorial policies. I had been studying hard for last 3 months and when I've cleared 2 phone screens from FANG and waiting for remaining two Phone screens now I'm not sure if they would continue with the process or reject giving some other reason.
I'm in exactly the same position. I also needed to change companies fast since my manager has been absolutely horrible to me since I came back from medical leave. He says since I was "out", other people were covering for me so now I need to put in 150% effort to make up for that and he always concludes by saying he's not holding the medical leave against me. But he's clearly retaliating
These first world people don't understand our issues. They just want to make our lives more miserable and would enjoy that.
While I sympathize with you, please keep in mind a work visa is not the same as permanent residency. And every country has the right to revise its immigration policies, change rules based on their social, political, economic needs, through democratic process, assuming it's a democratic country :). What would have been more fair is to provide more notice for making changes such as these as it impacts planning for a lot of people, instead of making effective in 2 weeks on Sep 11. Or else hire more people in USCIS but then clearly there is an intent to reduce immigration else by adding people also backlog can be cleared :)
You are missing the point here that they cannot just make immigrants lives miserable by playing with their jobs. They should be more considerate when making these policies and should think about impact it has on people's lives. These immigrants are greatly helping (and not saying that immigrants are doing any favor to America) the economy so they would also expect something good from Uscis.
I already said that "what would have been more fair...."
Too bad
No worries, they’ll find someone not on an H visa.
Why don’t u stick your Tail in your ass and keep quiet. I understand you don’t have to deal with these issues, so don’t mock and gtfo