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Posted on 04-23-08 9:17 AM     Reply [Subscribe]
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Please go through the article carefully and remind your lawer to email USCIS ( Address given below) for change of status within 30 days after you receive the positive  receipt from USCIS.

USCIS to Allow F-1 Students Opportunity to Request Change of Status

WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that it would allow F-1 students who are the beneficiaries of selected H-1B petitions for fiscal year (FY) 2009 to request a change of status in lieu of consular notification.

 

This short-term measure follows an April 8, 2008 interim final rule that, among other actions, automatically extends the F-1 status of qualifying students who are the beneficiaries of approved H-1B petitions to cover the gap between the expiration of a student’s F-1 status and the H-1B employment start date of October 1. To obtain the automatic extension, a student must be the beneficiary of an H-1B petition filed for the next fiscal year (with an October 1 employment start date) and have requested a change of status.  For F-1 student beneficiaries of petitions that USCIS subsequently rejects, denies, or revokes, or for those who violate their status, the automatic extension terminates at that time.


Since the rule was published after the filing period had closed for new FY 2009 H-1B petitions, many petitioners of F-1 students did not include a request for a change of status with the H-1B petition. Instead, petitioners requested consular notification based on the assumption that these students would have been required to leave the United States to obtain an H-1B visa at a consular office abroad.


USCIS has determined that it will allow petitioners of F-1 students whose H-1B petitions were randomly selected to receive an H-1B visa number for FY2009 following the closure of the filing period, to now request a change of status on behalf of qualified beneficiaries, if such requests are received within 30 days of the issuance of the receipt notice.

 

To request a change of status in lieu of consular notification, petitioners (or authorized representatives) should send an e-mail with the request to the USCIS service center where their petition is pending within 30 days of the issuance of the receipt notice.  Special email addresses for each service center have been established specifically for this purpose.  These addresses are listed below and are posted on USCIS’ website.  Petitioners should e-mail their requests for change of status in lieu of consular notification upon receipt of the notice so the agency has the request before completing H-1B petition adjudication.  The requests should include the receipt number and both the petitioner’s and beneficiary’s name, date of birth, I-94 (Arrival/Departure Record) number, and Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) number.  Please do not contact the service center about requesting a change of status until after receiving the receipt notice.

 

E-mail addresses for requesting change of status are:

VermontService Center
Premium Processing cases:  VSCPPCAPGAP.Vscppcapgap@dhs.gov
Non-Premium cases:  VSCNONPPCAPGAP.Vscnonppcapgap@dhs.gov

 

CaliforniaService Center
Premium Processing cases:  CSC.ppcapgap@dhs.gov
Non-Premium cases:  CSC.nonppcapgap@dhs.gov


NOTE:  If an F-1 student, who is the beneficiary of a selected 2009 H-1B petition, has a pending request to change to a status other than H-1B but now wants to file under the process outlined above, he or she should withdraw the previously filed change in accordance with established regulations.

Source-
http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=b718345b2b269110VgnVCM1000004718190aRCRD&vgnextchannel=68439c7755cb9010VgnVCM10000045f3d6a1RCRD

 
Posted on 04-23-08 9:27 AM     Reply [Subscribe]
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I am in OPT till OCT 7 2008 and I am approved for H1-b. Does this rule apply to me as well..pls suggest, I am kind ignorant of all this legal issue...Help me
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Posted on 04-23-08 1:34 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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Congratulation for being lucky enough to get H1B.You are in safe side and this rule doesn't apply to you.No worry.


 
Posted on 04-23-08 2:06 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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my lawyer told me he has not received any notice fromUSCIS yet. i've asked him several times whether he has received the case number or not but the answer is same,....... not yet.

how many of you have received the case number from uscis besides the premium processing?

thanks for sharing

 


 
Posted on 04-23-08 2:14 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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Thanks doejupc..

so that means when I get H1-b from oct-1, my status  will be automatically changed into H1-b from F-1?

anybody gone thru same experience? Pls share


 


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