CASE: H-1B Change of Employer
PETITIONER: Waste Management Company
BENEFICIARY: Indian Chief Financial Officer
LOCATION: St. Louis, MO
Our client is a wastewater treatment and management company in the St. Louis, MO area. They contacted our office in early July 2016 to seek a legal assistance from our office for their foreign employee. The beneficiary is from India and obtained her Master’s degree in Business Administration. The proffered position for the Beneficiary is a Chief Financial Officer which qualifies as a specialty occupation. This proffered position is clearly a “specialty occupation” because the minimum requirements for this position are a Master’s Degree in 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 July 21, 2016. Since this petition was based on the change of employer, 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 Petition was approved on November 15, 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.