CASE: H-1B Extension
PETITIONER: Advertising Media Company
BENEFICIARY: Albanian Graphic Designer
LOCATION: California
Our client is a Graphic Designer from Albania who currently works at an Advertising Media Company in the greater Los Angeles area. She is on a valid H-1B visa. Her H-1B status was about to expire in September 2013. Our client sought legal assistance from us for her H-1B 3-year extension and retained our office on March 14, 2013.
Upon retention, our office prepared her H-1B extension application. The Labor Condition Application was filed and approved and eventually our office filed the H-1B extension application on May 17, 2013 to the USCIS California Service Center. We made sure there were sufficient arguments and documents to support the case that a “graphic designer” in this instance is a “specialty occupation.” There was no Request for Evidence with the filing and the Petitioner did not opt for premium processing. The case was approved on September 11, 2013. The H-1B is good from October 1, 2013 to September 30, 2016.