CASE: H-1B Change of Employer
PETITIONER: Advertising Media Company
BENEFICIARY: Albanian Graphic Designer
LOCATION: Nevada
Our client is an advertising media company in Nevada. They contacted our office in early November 2013 to seek legal assistance for their foreign employee. The beneficiary is from Albania and obtained her Bachelor’s degree in graphic design. The proffered position for the Beneficiary is a graphic designer which we argued qualifies as a specialty occupation.
The foreign beneficiary in this case already had her H-1B visa from her previous employer which was in a similar industry. However, her H-1B visa was not expired yet, and she wanted to extend her H-1B status on a change of employer basis.
After retention, our office filed the H-1B change of employer with various supporting documents on November 26, 2013 via regular processing service. Since this petition was based on a change in employer, this petition was exempted from the annual cap of the H-1B. Thus, we could file prior to April 1. There were no Requests for Evidence during the processing of the H-1B. Eventually, our client’s H-1B Petition was approved on January 21, 2014. Now the Beneficiary can work for her Petitioner-Employer as an H-1B visa holder and she can work there for the next three years.