James Bach and Robert Werner s How to Secure Your H-1B Visa is written for both employers and
the workers they hire. Andrew Hacker The Frenzy about High-Tech Talent The New York Review of
Books July 9 2015 The H-1B visa is the gateway for the world s best and brightest to live and
work in the United States as IT professionals engineers scientists professors doctors
nurses and researchers. How to Secure Your H 1B Visa guides employees and employers alike
through the maze of H-1B laws policies and procedures. This road map lays out the whole H-1B
process from petition to visa to status maintenance to visa extension and ultimately to
permanent residence in the US for you and your family. It shows you step by step exactly how
the H-1B process divides up between the employer and employee. It identifies the points where
the two tracks converge and the H-1B employer and employee need to pull in tandem. Navigation
icons tell you at a glance whether a topic concerns employees and employers equally or
primarily one or the other. Sidebars highlight pitfalls liabilities and disasters to avoid
tips and exceptions to leverage for success administrative and enforcement trends and
late-breaking changes and special conditions that apply to nationals of particular countries
such as India and China. Ancillary chapters cover complementary visas for family members and
H-1B substitute visas for professionals with particular skill sets or from particular countries
such as Australia and Canada. The authors are Silicon Valley immigration lawyers with 60 years
combined experience handling professional work visas. Whether you are an international
professional desiring to work in the US for the first time an international student in the US
wishing to remain after graduation or a hiring manager or HR specialist for a sponsoring
entity this short book will show you how to secure maintain and leverage your H-1B visa and
answer all your questions about: quotas and exemptions RFEs and consular interviews dual
representation by the employer s lawyer LCA compliance auditing and penalties serial H-1B
employers termination and benching regulations reconciling filing deadlines with expiration
dates transitioning from academic to affiliated to private H-1B employment
