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Monday, November 18, 2013

December 2013 Visa Bulletin

December 2013 Visa Bulletin has been released (valid from December 1 to December 31 only). Please see below for more details.

Family Based:

Family-Sponsored
All Charge -ability Areas Except Those Listed
CHINA- mainland born
INDIA
MEXICO
PHILIPPINES
F1
15NOV06
15NOV06
15NOV06
22SEP93
01JUL01
F2A
08SEP13
08SEP13
08SEP13
01SEP13
08SEP13
F2B
01MAY06
01MAY06
01MAY06
01APR94
22MAR03
F3
08MAR03
08MAR03
08MAR03
01JUN93
22JAN93
F4
08SEP01
08SEP01
08SEP01
22OCT96
01JUN90

Employment Based:


Employment- Based
All Chargeability Areas Except Those Listed
CHINA- mainland born
INDIA
MEXICO
PHILIPPINES
1st
C
C
C
C
C
2nd
C
08NOV08
15NOV04
C
C
3rd
01OCT11
01OCT11
01SEP03
01OCT11
08JAN07
Other Workers
01OCT11
01OCT11
01SEP03
01OCT11
08JAN07
4th
C
C
C
C
C
Certain Religious Workers
C
C
C
C
C
5th
Targeted
Employment
 Areas/
Regional Centers and Pilot Programs
C
C
C
C
C

My Law, LLC                                            
Immigration & Tax Law Firm
Phone: (630) 903-9625
1230 E. Diehl Rd. Suite 106
Naperville, IL 60563

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Wednesday, November 6, 2013

H-4 Visa: H1B Spouse Dependent

H-4 visa holders are permitted to study at any U.S. university. They are not required to obtain F-1 student visas before beginning a study program. However, H-4 visa holders are NOT permitted to work in the United States. There are no exceptions to this rule.

If an H-4 visa holder begins working, that person is violating the conditions of his or her status and may lose status and be subject to other serious penalties.

H-4 visa holders are also entitled to travel in and out of the United States. There is no requirement that the H-1B worker accompany them.       

However, in other business and skilled foreign worker non-immigrant visa legislation such as L-1 multinational corporate executives, managers, and specialized knowledge workers, J-1 foreign exchange visitors, etc, the law has accommodate this issue to relieve the primary foreign workers from such family issues and spouses' career issues.

Somehow, however, the law has failed to extend the identical consideration in the case of H-1B highly skilled foreign workers visa for unknown reasons.

Importantly, any time spent in H-4 status does NOT count towards the six-year maximum period of time that workers are allowed to be in H-1B status. 


My Law, LLC                                            
Immigration & Tax Law Firm
Phone: (630) 903-9625
1230 E. Diehl Rd. Suite 106
Naperville, IL 60563

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