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

[slpmom]

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.

[agnelson]

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.

[slpmom]

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