Legal Work Options During Transition from H1-B to Pending I-485/I-765

[Lemonslice 5,389]

7 hours ago, S2N said:

I know someone who worked at USCIS legislative affairs for a few decades and recently retired. Apparently there’s a separate system for tracking any case where there’s been a congressional inquiry and that they usually deal with professional congressional staffers whose dedicated jobs is to finding solutions to the more difficult cases.

 

For the standard “my I-130 has been pending less than the standard processing time and I miss my spouse!” It’s not useful, but on anything remotely out of the ordinary such as “my H1-B expires and I need to work while I-1485 is pending because my employer legally can’t renew it thanks to layoffs” a congressional inquiry could help.

 

OP should still plan for the worst, but it’s the best bet.

I think OP and spouse should both work on parallel solutions now.  Spouse not finding work for years is demonstrating a lack of job searching skills; even if she goes back to school, this is something that she should start to work on while OP reaches to representative and tries to expedite. 

[Boiler 48,438]

They do have a joint sponsor

[S2N 625]

26 minutes ago, Lemonslice said:

I think OP and spouse should both work on parallel solutions now.  Spouse not finding work for years is demonstrating a lack of job searching skills; even if she goes back to school, this is something that she should start to work on while OP reaches to representative and tries to expedite. 

I agree completely, I was just thinking of official solutions that could be tried at the same time.

 

They’re in “try all options” space right now.