CASE: H-1B Change of Employer
PETITIONER: E-Commerce Company
BENEFICIARY: Korean Staff Accountant
LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA
Our client is a specialized E-commerce company which oversees multiple e-commerce websites and marketplaces. They contacted our office in early March 2016 to seek legal assistance from our office for their foreign employee. The beneficiary is from South Korea and obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. The proffered position for the Beneficiary is a Staff Accountant 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 Accounting / Business Administration or its equivalent.
The foreign beneficiary in this case already had her H-1B visa from her previous employer. However, her H-1B visa was not expired yet, and she wanted to extend her H-1B status on the change of employer basis.
Once retained, our office promptly filed the H-1B visa petition with various supporting documents on March 28, 2016 via premium processing service. Since this petition was based on a change of 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 April 6, 2016. Now the Beneficiary can work for her Petitioner-Employer as an H-1B visa holder and she can work there for next three years.