Please help : traveling to the US while H1B pending??

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slpmomCanuckAbroad Regular
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Please help : traveling to the US while H1B pending??

Post Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:00 am

I will be applying for an H1B very soon using premium processing. I want to travel to the US from Canada in 2 weeks to go look at houses to rent. Someone at the place I will be working says I cannot enter the US while my H1B is pending so I have two choices, come this weekend before they submit for the H1B or wait several weeks for everything to be submitted and come down right before I am to start work and find a place. Does anyone know if these options are true? I mean how am I supposed to do this? A lot of homes for rent have the owners still in them and they are offering it up for rent because they can't sell. I would need to give at least 30 days notice for them to move out of their house.
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Re: Please help : traveling to the US while H1B pending??

Post Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:12 am

You can enter US with the H1 pending, as long as you still reside in canada, you will simply be entering as a tourist. Nothing you do can invalidate your H1 application, because , in reality, it is your firm's application.

HRs usually are clueless about how immigration works in general, and even less so for Cdns.

Go whenever you is convenient for you.
This site is a travel site and not best source for these topics:
TN and TD info: http://forums.immigration.com/forumdisp ... -TN-Status
For US/Cdn taxes and SS/CPP:forums.serbinski.com/index.php
US Marriage-based Immigration: visajourney.com
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Re: Please help : traveling to the US while H1B pending??

Post Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:51 am

Thanks so much agnelson. I was having a heart attack.
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