H1B Visa Transfer

USA H1B Visa
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Hi,

I have an H1B visa stamped on my passport from company A. The stamping was done in Sep’15 and the visa is valid till Sep’17. I have not traveled to US so far. My passport is getting expired in Sep’16. So I have 2 questions:

  1. What will happen to the visa if I go for passport renewal as the new passport number will be different from what is there in the petition?

  2. Can I get my H1B trasfered to a different company B? Will my current employer A get to know about the transfer?

  3. What if I get this transfer done by Company B and then my current employer agrees to send me to US? Will the existing petition and visa still be valid.

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  1. Visa stamp is not impacted. You will have to always carry both passports when traveling internationally.

  2. B can file a cap-exempt petition for you, and A won’t be notified about it

  3. Even after B files the petition or it gets approved, you can still use A’s petition. The H-1 is never transferred. What happens is that you end up w/ multiple approved petitions and can then decide to pick any one of them.

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Thanks Saurabh for your response.