H status (H-1B) can be held for up to 6 years. That's 6 years in time actually spent in the U.S., snot including time on vacation outside the country. So potentially over 6 years on a regular H-1B.
Then come the exceptions.
If you have started the Immigrant (Green Card) process, depending how far along you are, you can continue to extend your H-1b past 6 years in 1 or 3 year jumps indefinately.
Oh, and I see people lose their H all the time. If the employer fires them, the alien gets a one way plane ticket home.
You sure about that? Let's consider the "law that should be amended"
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
This right extends to personal information that a third party has collected. There are only certain circumstances that police can aquire information, and most of them require probible cause, an affidavit sworn by an officer as to what the evidence is, and a Judge granting permission to search a specific place or places for a specific item(s). If the police had a warrant that was not specific, then she was right to refuse.
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Thanks, I knew that, but just didn't fully explain. I really was not trying to get involved in the whole immigrant process here.
H status (H-1B) can be held for up to 6 years. That's 6 years in time actually spent in the U.S., snot including time on vacation outside the country. So potentially over 6 years on a regular H-1B.
Then come the exceptions.
If you have started the Immigrant (Green Card) process, depending how far along you are, you can continue to extend your H-1b past 6 years in 1 or 3 year jumps indefinately.
Oh, and I see people lose their H all the time. If the employer fires them, the alien gets a one way plane ticket home.
You sure about that? Let's consider the "law that should be amended"
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
This right extends to personal information that a third party has collected. There are only certain circumstances that police can aquire information, and most of them require probible cause, an affidavit sworn by an officer as to what the evidence is, and a Judge granting permission to search a specific place or places for a specific item(s). If the police had a warrant that was not specific, then she was right to refuse.