>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 08:49:35 -0800 (PST)
Status: RO
I'm in the US with an O1 visa. Sorry to contradict what has been said
before but there is absolutely not time limitation,
this O1 visa can be renewed indefinitely. There is not need to go back for
any time in your country.
Moreover, if you have to work for another company during your stay in
the US, your application for the green card is does not need to be
restarted, which is not the case for the H-1 visa.
The O1 visa can be obtained faster than the H-1.
Have a look at http://www.immigrationassociates.com/photo.htm
and http://travel.state.gov/visa;tempwkr.html
Best Regards,
Vincent
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Vincent von Kaenel
email: vincent.vonkaenel_at_ieee.org
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Pierre Demartines wrote:
> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 13:07:48 +0100 (CET)
> From: Pierre Demartines <pierred_at_lexicus.mot.com>
> To: swiss-list_at_swiss-list.com
> Subject: swiss-list: Working visa in the US
>
> I think the best way (path of least resistance) is to let your Company
> do the work for you.
>
> In my case, this is how it happened:
>
> 1) Got a J1 sponsored by ICSI (International Computer Science
> Institute) where I went for a 1-year postdoc.
> 2) Being there was a great opportunity to do research of course, but
> also to make useful connections with the economical environment.
> 3) Pursuant point 2, got hired by Motorola...
> 4) Motorola filed a petition for me to obtain an H1-B...
> 5) ...which got accepted pretty fast (a couple of months)
> 6) Worked for three years under H1-B
> 7) Just got renewed for another 3 years (again, Motorola did all the
> hard work, hiring compagnies to obtain official translations of my
> diplomas, etc... --each petition was about 80 pages long)
> 8) They are now working on my green card.
>
> Another way is to apply for the diversity lottery, which grants the
> green card to some randomly selected individuals ("100% of the winners
> have applied...") Although called a "lottery", this application is
> FREE, and there are significantly more chances to win. I know at
> least three friends who won it, one of whom being now the CEO of a
> very succesful company in the Bay Area. Check on
> http://travel.state.gov/dv_over.html, and as they say "You may wish to
> check this site again starting in August 2000 for updates on the
> DV-2002 lottery".
>
> Just a note: some of my colleagues were hired under the "O" visa.
> In two cases, this had severe consequences because of a two-year
> condition which states that, after completion of the temporary work
> made with the "O" visa, these individuals had to go back and spend two
> years in their home country before being able to apply for a US visa
> again. In one case, this is pretty dramatic with the husband in
> Seattle and the wife in Istambul, Turkey. This 2 year condition is
> present in other types of visas as well (I think the J1 can have it
> too), but the good news is that it applies only to certain countries
> (and I think Switzerland is not one of them).
>
> You might want to browse thoroughly through http://travel.state.gov/,
> and especially in http://travel.state.gov/faq.html
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Pierre
>
>
> __________________________________________________________________
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