From: mir@acsu.buffalo.edu (Atif S. Mir)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan,alt.visa.us
Subject: >>>>>> Info on H1 <<<<<< FAQ!
Date: 27 Jan 93 17:34:12 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: UB

Following is the response I got on my inquiry on H1.

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From: Mansoor Khan <khan@alpha.ces.cwru.edu>
Organization: Computer Engineering and Science, Case Western Reserve University

best thing to do is to get a competent lawyer. Do not listen to every 
Tom, Dick, And Harry....


From: kamalipk@leland.stanford.edu

Assalam Alaikum Atif,
Under the new rules there are three steps involved in getting a H1 status:
(i) Filling out a "Prevailing Wage Determination" form and sending it to your
local Employment Security Commision (a subsu subsidiary of Labour Dept.)
This form is filled by your employer who then mails it to your local Employment
Security Commision (or whatever it is called in your state). They write down
the minimum wage which should be paid depending on how youer employer has filledout that form and then return it in about 2 weeks or so.
(ii) After receiving the above mentioned form your Employer fills out a labour
department form called ETA9036 or ETA9035 (I don't remember the exact number of
the form). The employer mentions the response he got in (i) from the Employment
commision and pledges to pay atleast the wage mentioned in (i). Labour Dept.
usually takes about two weeks to approve it (hopefully!!) and then sends it
back to the employer. This process is also called the LCA (Labour Condition
Application).
(iii) Now your employer files for your change of status from F1 to H1B1. You
just fill out I129 and no other form (under the new rules) but make sure
that you have the latest version ( which takes into account all the things
that were asked in the old form and I539) of I129.
Note that you will definitely have to go outside USA to get a H1 visa. My
advise is (considering you are somewhere near Buffalo) to go to Ottowa. I got
my H1 visa from bu Ottowa in Sept. '92 and there was no problem in getting
the visa.
Feel free to send me E-Mail if you have any other questions.

Hope this helps,
Khuda Hafiz,


From: Chandrika B Karanam <cbk@cs.wayne.edu>

Atif,

I am also planning to change from F1 toH1B. Please let me know the 
various formalities and nuances involved.
Direct messages to
dwaraka@mie.eng.wayne.edu

Thank you in advance

Dwarakanath

From: gidh@pleiades.cs.bucknell.edu (sharmila gidh)

Hi! Atif

Even I am in the process of changing my status from F-1 to H-1B. I filled an I129
form for H-1 application and an additional I539 form for change of non-immigration 
status. If you have any more info. about H-1B application, please let me know.

Thanks.

Kedar Gidh


From: abraham <AASSI%CUNYVM.BITNET@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>

Atif:

    I got my H-1 and later my green card (and for my wife at the same time)
through a lawyer here in New york City;  I don't know about you but there's
a saying in Lebanon (my home country) that goes: "Give your bread to a baker
to bake for you, even if he eats half of it."
>> I3ti khibzak lall-khibbez wlau akal nussu. :-))"

It cost me $1000 for the H-1 and 2 years later $4000 for the G.C. but
it was well worth it!

Good luck, and let me know what happens


Ibrahim Abou-Suleiman
aassi@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Director of Data processing
United Cerebral Palsy assoc of New York State



From asim@pak.sps.mot.com Thu Nov 19 18:26:58 1992

My company's lawyer did all the work for the change of my status and hence I 
don't know the details about it, but I do know that they changed the rules last
November. Also, as regards to your question about Mexico, you only need to go 
there if you want to get a "multiple entry H1B". If you don't plan to go out of
the states until your H1B expires, then there is no need to go to Mexico.

--Asim.

From kamalipk@leland.Stanford.EDU Tue Nov 17 15:52:31 1992

Assalam Alaikum Atif,
Under the new rules there are three steps involved in getting a H1 status:
(i) Filling out a "Prevailing Wage Determination" form and sending it to your
local Employment Security Commision (a subsu subsidiary of Labour Dept.)
This form is filled by your employer who then mails it to your local Employment
Security Commision (or whatever it is called in your state). They write down
the minimum wage which should be paid depending on how youer employer has filledout that form and then return it in about 2 weeks or so.
(ii) After receiving the above mentioned form your Employer fills out a labour
department form called ETA9036 or ETA9035 (I don't remember the exact number of
the form). The employer mentions the response he got in (i) from the Employment
commision and pledges to pay atleast the wage mentioned in (i). Labour Dept.
usually takes about two weeks to approve it (hopefully!!) and then sends it
back to the employer. This process is also called the LCA (Labour Condition
Application).
(iii) Now your employer files for your change of status from F1 to H1B1. You
just fill out I129 and no other form (under the new rules) but make sure
that you have the latest version ( which takes into account all the things
that were asked in the old form and I539) of I129.
Note that you will definitely have to go outside USA to get a H1 visa. My
advise is (considering you are somewhere near Buffalo) to go to Ottowa. I got
my H1 visa from bu Ottowa in Sept. '92 and there was no problem in getting
the visa.
Feel free to send me E-Mail if you have any other questions.

Hope this helps,
Khuda Hafiz,

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