CASE: H-1B Visa Extension Petition
PETITIONER: Industrial Material Company
BENEFICIARY: Chinese Industrial Material Research Scientist
LOCATION: Ohio
Our client is an industrial material company focused on the production and commercialization of high-performance / non-immunogenic biomaterials for use in the medial and consumer healthcare arenas. They are located in Wooster, Ohio. They contacted our office in December 2016 to seek legal assistance from our office for their foreign employee’s H-1B extension. The beneficiary is from China and obtained his Master’s degree in Plant Pathology in the United States. The proffered position for the Beneficiary is an industrial material research scientist which qualifies as a specialty occupation. This proffered position is clearly a “specialty occupation” because the minimum requirements for this position are a Bachelor’s Degree in Science/Engineering or its equivalent. Moreover, our office helped this employee’s previous H-1B case in 2014 and it was approved by the USCIS.
Once retained, our office promptly filed the H-1B visa petition with various supporting documents on January 19, 2017 via regular processing service. Since this petition was based on the extension, this petition was exempted from the annual cap of the H-1B. Thus, we could file prior to the April 1. There were no Requests for Evidence during the processing of the H-1B. Eventually, our client’s H-1B Extension Petition was approved on February May 30, 2017. Now the Beneficiary can continuously work for his Petitioner-Employer as an H-1B visa holder and he can work there for next three years.