Finding a new job during H1B grace period
Posting on behalf of a friend on H-1B who was fired from Amazon (and therefore cannot join Blind now to post this by herself).
Question: can you accept offers from multiple companies and initiate H1B transfer with all of them at the same time? Any potential problems this could cause (apart from being blacklisted by the companies she doesn't end up joining), and is there a limit to how many of these applications can be filed in parallel?
Background: Her 60 day grace period is ending in about 3 weeks. The good news is that she had started preparing for interviews when she was notified of PIP. So she's managed to complete a few of these on-sites and has verbal offers from 3 companies right now (all of them over the last few days). She is tempted to simply accept all 3 offers and have them all file for her H1B transfer just in case one or more of them gets denied or delayed for whatever reason. It's only once at least one transfer is approved will she truly be out of danger.
So morality aside, is this ok to do? Has anyone been in a similar situation before?
Her Amazon TC: 240K, YOE 3
My TC 370k, YOE 4
#h1b #h1btransfer #fired
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Also look into the track record of the immigration company filing the visa app.
Instead, the biggest concern is the speed at which these companies move forward. She needs the application filed (but not necessarily approved yet) before she can start working, and she needs to start working within 3 weeks (ideally 2 weeks to have some buffer). So it's all about which company moves the fastest with background check, LCA filing, and then H1B transfer filing. Accepting offers from 3 companies will increase the likelihood that at least one of them will meet this timeline.