H1B COE RFE

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Oct 29, 2019 12 Comments

Microsoft attorneys have applied for my H1B amendment/COE petition. I got an RFE (speciality occupation) for the transfer. What has been your experience when trying to work with the in-house Microsoft attorneys? What's the best way to get a timeline from them?

It's been almost 3 weeks since the RFE was issued and 1 week since they got the RFE packet.

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  • These days attorneys are taking the entire permissible time limit to respond to an RFE instead of hurting their response within a week or two… And the usual time limit is I guess 60 days ... I’d say ask them for their usual timeline and the. Follow up according to their response

    PS - I’m gonna start my MS H1B transfer soon too. Did they share RFE details with you ?
    Oct 29, 2019 4
    • Intel / R&D
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      Just one. Speciality occupation. The most common of them all these days.
      Oct 29, 2019
    • I think USCIS has been giving these out ever since Trump came in to keep the premium processing money and buy 2-3 months of time ... they issue them mostly on the 14-15 day just before the clock runs out so they don’t have to refund the PP fee
      Oct 29, 2019
  • Intel / R&D
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    RFE cleared in case anyone was wondering
    Jan 15, 2020 1
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    Bumping this post.
    So the RFE response has still not been filed yet. When I try to escalate, all I get from the immigration team is that they need more time to make a stronger response.
    Dec 3, 2019 2
    • Is your background CS or EE? Did you have to give details answering specialty occupation request?
      Dec 3, 2019
    • Intel / R&D
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      My background is ME. I did have to create a document with details for the RFE response. The RFE apparently said that MS has not justified properly why the occupation is a specialty occupation. :/
      Dec 3, 2019
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    I am in the same situation. Microsoft attorneys are preparing my response for my RFE. I am expecting 2-3 month time-frame to get an approval.
    Nov 5, 2019 0
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    So nothing more on this from Microsoft folks here?
    Oct 31, 2019 0