H1B Extension Process

People from all over the world hanker to get to United States, to work there. This is because this country is full of opportunities for people from various fields. This can be mainly seen in underdeveloped and developing countries. The main reason behind this is lack of good jobs in their home country and much higher salary in abroad. Therefore, a variety of options has opened to issue temporary visa in United States for various purpose. However, H1B visa is specialized as occupation visa and is issued only for a span of 3 years. Therefore, H1B extension is required for all those who want to work in US for more than three years. This H1B visa is issued by US Embassy allowing one to work temporarily in US and approved for professional purposes.

Three years extensions are mainly required for those professionals who need to work in US after three years of work (H1b 3 Years Extension). As H1B visa is valid only for three years on first approval.

Criteria for H1B extension after 3 years:

1. One is not eligible for file adjustment status application, if one belongs from country having no current priority date and mainly happens for applications coming from the citizens of China and India
2. The person applying for H1B extension must have green card employment petition under EB2, EB1, and EB3 category.

After six years of work in United States (H1b Extension After 6 Years ), the H1B visa period expires .But another concept has been introduced by US government, which states that it can be extended beyond six years but only for one year. If that person needs to stay more, he has to renew this every year.

Criteria for H1B extension after six years:

1. If the person applying for this, is a beneficiary of the employment base immigrant (EB) under the petition of I-140
2. If the application for labor certificate of employment green card remained pending by more than one year.

H1B extension processing time:

Various important documents are required for H1B extension like Original I-94 form issue by USCIS, USCIS I-797 form receipt, updated visa of the family members and others. If the application form is fulfilled correctly and if all the required documents are provided in proper status as required, the H1B extension processing time is nearly about three to six months. In actual practice, the renewal of the visa after three years of expiry takes lesser time than the extension after six years because extension for this visa after six years is a very special case and a very detail scrutiny of various documents and applicant’s status is done before approval. Therefore, it takes more time.

Sometimes the documents regarding H1B extension are returned due to some error. Then one has to, sent it to the authorities for correction at free of cost. For this one need to send his passport, letter to inform what information is to be corrected with supporting documents and a recent photo of the applicant. This further increases the H1B extension processing time. Thus H1B extension processing time is someway depends on us, that is if we submit all the required documents by properly checking them then the chance of approval increases and H1B extension processing time decreases,