Hello All,
I’m working as full time employee and I have valid H1B visa & petition validity until Sep 2020. I completed 3 years in H1B status. And now there is office work location change for my company within the same state. For this my HR said we can file amendment for location change along with H1b extension for remaining 3 years.
I know that we can file H1b extension only before 6 months of petition expiry date.
Can we file extension along with my location change amendment as before my current petition to
expire have still 15 months ?
Please share your expertise.
An extension is a FULL H1B filing with the attachment of previous H1B copy.
When I said FULL H1B filing, it includes the current work location/job etc(which are nothing but your amendment details if its not an extension).
Thus, if you are filing an extension, the amendment is embedded into it, there is no separate amendment in the picture.
Thanks for the update.
I fully agree with you. But my actual questions is whether we can file H1B extension ( along with new work location change) 17 months prior to my current petition validity to end? ( Usually extension will be applied only before 6 months right)
2nd question is can i travel to India during this extension process as I have my valid visa and H1B petition till next year?
As far as I know, there is no set time in which we need to file an extension before its expiry.(I would like to learn if such time limit is there).
if your H1-passport-stamped visa employer is the same employer at the time of your re-entry and that stamping is still valid, you can use the same visa stamping to enter into US