CASE: Change of Status from H-1B to F-1 / Response to RFE
CLIENT: Chinese
LOCATION: Cleveland, OH
Our client has been on H-1B status for many years and has worked in the United States. In late 2014, she decided to study further in the United States and got admitted. She filed her I-539 Change of Status application to change status from H-1B to F-1 to USCIS.
However, she received a Request for Evidence for her application and the RFE letter was very extensive and involved multiple issues. In order to receive legal assistance from us, she contacted our office in early April of this year for the response to RFE. Eventually, she retained our office on April 7, 2015.
Once retained, we helped our client obtain supporting documents for the Change of Status and prepared the response brief for the RFE. We fully explained her financial ability to pursue her studies in the U.S., her ties to her home country, and maintenance of status.
The start date of her program on the I-20 was AFTER her last day at work on H-1B, but it was within 30 days of it. Plus, she filed the change of status before her last day at H-1B.
On April 21, 2015, we filed the Response to RFE for her I-539 Change of Status with an extensive response brief and numerous supporting documents.
On May, 1, 2015, the Change of Status was approved. Our client is now on F-1 and can start her accounting program soon.