Avoid making H-1B your only visa option (if you can)
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If you can, avoid making H-1B your only visa option.
Because you’re subject to restrictions like:
The 60 day rule.
Not being able to leave your employer without finding a job almost immediately.
It’s stressful having your entire immigration future tied to an employer, especially with all these layoffs that are happening (and more apparently to come in 2024).
And even after H-1B, you’re still tied to your employer via PERM. Yes, you can technically change employers but you again risk losing status.
For those of you early on in the green card process, I can talk more in the Discord community about what you can do right now to equip yourself with more options down the line.
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This post is by Amber G. Davis. She started her career working at a boutique immigration firm before moving on to two different large immigration firms (one of which is one of the largest immigration firms in the world). She’s advised numerous high-tech companies of all shapes and sizes, from startups to top ten Fortune 500 companies, and from nonprofits to companies in the IPO process. She now runs Waypoint Immigration USA, representing only individual employees for EB-1A, EB-2 NIW, O-1, etc. and is well-known on LinkedIn with 8k+ followers.
Want to get in touch with Amber? You can reach her at amber.davis@waypointimmigration.org or through a LinkedIn connection note (Amber’s LinkedIn profile).
