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UncleMax Newbie

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I have been offered a job in the US.

I am a citizen of non-visa waiver country.

The employer would like to meet me first and is suggesting I spend time there on a tourist visa prior to sponsoring me.

I imagine I would apply for a B2 visa, visit the US and if the interview is successful could I get a status change to H2B or a Green Card through the company?

Would I need to leave the US and reapply from my country of origin or could I remain in the US while the company is petitioning on my behalf?

Any advice would be much appreciated.

kzielu Experienced

kzielu   1,154

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Would I need to leave the US and reapply from my country of origin or could I remain in the US while the company is petitioning on my behalf?

Most likely yes - depending on how long you will be allowed by CBP to stay on B-2 - but petitioning takes time and unless the company is cap exempt there is no H-1B visas available for a while... Not sure about H-2B though...

UncleMax Newbie

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Looking at the H2B quotas there do appear to be available, at least for Q2.

The more I investigate this process the more surprised I am the employer would even want to bother hiring from overseas.

I could be denied a B2 visa, I could get it but then need to leave, costing them productivity, there's no guarentee that the H2B visa will be approved..

I suppose I would need to state on my B2 visa that I will be going there to interview for the position, as long as I am not working then it's ok?

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LIFE'SJOURNEY   970

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Never heard of an H2b being interviewed in the US, generaly they are interviwed in their home country. You will have to be interviwed in Home country for the H2b visa. H2b visa are seasonal visas, so not quite sure the type of job you are being interviwed for. Also, a h2b does not/nor will it qualify toward a employer sponsored green card.

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UncleMax   0

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Never heard of an H2b being interviewed in the US, generaly they are interviwed in their home country. You will have to be interviwed in Home country for the H2b visa. H2b visa are seasonal visas, so not quite sure the type of job you are being interviwed for. Also, a h2b does not/nor will it qualify toward a employer sponsored green card.

It's a job in an artistic field. I don't have a college degree so I just presumed I'd have to apply for h2b rather than h1b, unless work experience of 8 years counts for something?

Boiler Grand Master

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It is not your call, what Visa category is the Employer looking at. Have you consulted with their Immigration Lawyer?

If they want to interview you, yes you would need a B2 Visa.

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

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The H1-B visa slots usually fill within a few days. Thereafter it's waiting for another year. Getting this done will require the services of an experienced attorney.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

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Boiler Grand Master

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Since he economy tanked they have been lasting much longer.

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

 
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