CASE: H-1B Extension
PETITIONER: Environmental Engineering Consulting Company
BENEFICIARY: Indian Principal Consulting Environmental / Water Engineer
Our client is an Environmental Engineering Consulting Company in Fairfax, VA. They contacted our office in November 2017 to seek legal assistance from our office for their foreign employee’s H-1B Extension. The beneficiary is from India and obtained his Bachelor’s degree and Master’s Degree in Civil / Environmental Engineering. The proffered position for the Beneficiary is a Principal Consulting Environmental / Water Engineer which we argued qualifies as a specialty occupation. He has been working for the Petitioner on a valid H-1B visa. The beneficiary already used his H-1B status for 6 years, but he is entitled to get 3 year extension since he has an approved I-140 petition for him. Our office helped his previous H-1B extension and his H-1B extension was granted in December 2014.
After retention, our office filed the H-1B visa petition with various supporting documents on December 5, 2017 via premium processing. Eventually, without any RFE, our client’s H-1B extension was approved on December 13, 2017. Now the Beneficiary can continue for the Petitioner on an H-1B status until December 2020.