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. 

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