{"product_id":"9781430247296","title":"How to Secure Your H-1B Visa: A Practical Guide for International Professionals and Their US Employers","description":"\u003cp\u003e    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"James Bach and Robert Werner’s \u003cem\u003eHow to Secure Your H-1B Visa\u003c\/em\u003e 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003cem\u003eHow to Secure Your H‑1B Visa\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNavigation 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003equotas and exemptions \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRFEs and consular interviews \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003edual representation by the employer’s lawyer \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLCA compliance, auditing, and penalties \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eserial H-1B employers \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003etermination and benching regulations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ereconciling filing deadlines with expiration dates \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003etransitioning from academic to affiliated to private H-1B employment \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e         What you’ll learnAs a result of reading \u003cem\u003eHow to Secure Your H-1B Visa\u003c\/em\u003e, foreign professionals will learn: \u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e  \u003cli\u003eHow to optimize the outcome of your non-immigrant skilled worker visa petition \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eHow to ace your interview at a US embassy or consulate and answer an RFE \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eHow to maintain or change your and your family’s status in the US   \u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e  Managers of US companies with skilled worker needs will learn: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eHow to include international professionals in the development of your HR strategies \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eHow to coach your foreign hires to cooperate in the petition process and avoid pitfalls \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eHow to avoid fines, penalties, and other hazards \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003c\/ul\u003e  Who this book is for      \u003cp\u003e     This is a practical, accessible, and affordable short book for both individual foreign professionals (especially IT workers) who want or already have an H1-B non-immigrant specialty occupation work visa (or a treaty-substitute or alternative visa to the H1-B) and also for their US corporate sponsors (especially small-to-medium enterprises and startups in the IT sector), showing foreign employees and US employers how to work in perfect sync to nail that H1-B visa, hang on to it, and leverage it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e             Table of Contents\u003col\u003e  \u003cli\u003e  Introduction  \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003e  Overview of the H-1B Petition Procedure  \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003e  The H-1B Annual Quota  \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003e  Eligibility for H-1B Status  \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003e  Complementary Roles of the H-1B Employee, Sponsor, and Attorney   \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003e  Employer Inputs to the H-1B Process  \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003e  Employee Inputs to the H-1B Process  \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003e  Labor Condition Application Compliance  \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003e  H-1B Investigations and Penalties  \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003e  Maintaining H-1B Status   \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003e  Termination of H-1B Employment  \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003e  H-1B Alternative Visas  \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003e  Summary  \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003e  Appendix 4  \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003e  Appendix 5  \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003e  Appendix 6  \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003e  Appendix 8  \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003e  Appendix 9  \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003e  Appendix 10  \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Apress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47153939448048,"sku":"9781430247296","price":17.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781430247296_p0.jpg?v=1763750971","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781430247296","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}