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What is an H1B Visa?
The H1B visa is designed to bring together foreign workers with American employers.
How do you obtain an H1B?
To get an H1B visa your going to need a four-year college degree—but this can be substituted with applicable experience. For example, three years of experience can be substituted for one year of college. Still, under the H1B visa rules your experience will need to have some connection to the field of study generally needed for the job you’re seeking.
Lets say your trying to get a job that usually requires a BA degree, you can use your experience to make up some of the years of college you don’t have, but only if that experience is truly related to that field of study. For example, your twelve years experience as a chemist cannot be substituted for the college degree usually required of an accountant.
But, the H1B visa can be obtained purely on experience alone, that is, with no college degree at all. But, you stand a better chance of approval with the degree or at least some college.
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H1B Visa Specialty Occupations
A specialty occupation is one that requires theoretical and practical application of a body of specialized knowledge along with at least a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent. This opens a wide body of fields in business, health care, teaching, arts and so much more. The opportunities here are immense.
The H1B visa can be obtained for a 3-year period and renewable for an additional 3 years and in some case even longer.
Quotas
The bad news is that Congress has set a limit of only 65,000 H1B visa approvals each year. But once you get your visa the quota does not apply to renewals. And, if you happen to have a master degree from a U.S. university the quota will not apply to you either.
Finding an Employer
Often the hardest part for foreign workers is finding an American company looking to hire them, but in reality there are thousands of U.S. companies hungry to hire foreign employees. To help, you can check out DATABASE OF THE TOP 550 H1B VISA SPONSORS t hat has been set up to help link foreign workers with U.S. employers,
Changing Companies and Positions
What if you don’t like the job once you get it? Well, you can simply change H1B Visa employers without losing your status. You need to find a new employer and have them file a new H1B visa application for you—once filed, you can start working for the new employer even before you receive an approval notice—just make sure that it’s a qualifying position and employer, etc.
Getting a Green Card after receiving an H1B Visa
It is possible to file for and get a green card after receiving your H1B. This is called "dual intent" and its one of the visas that the law allows you to do this—Getting a green card means that you’ll have lawful permanent residency in the United States—and an opportunity to become a US citizen.
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