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I recently received a full-time job offer with a tech company-A, and I am planning to start employment with them on STEM OPT, which is ending in 4 months. My H1B is picked by company-B, and they are open to C2C.
Company-A is not e-verified yet, and I am about to being my employment in 10 days. Given that I only have 4 months left in STEM OPT, and my H1B may begin on October 1st. How should I approach this situation if I want to continue working with Company A? Can I begin my day-1 CPT right after my H1B is approved, and continue my employment with Company A on Day-1 CPT until I find any employer wiling to sponsor H1B transfer later in the future? Will I loose my H1B status if I go with this route?
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Note: Unless the context shows otherwise, all answers here were provided by Rajiv and were compiled and reported by our editorial team from comments, blog and community calls on immigration.com. Where transcribed from audio/video, a verbatim transcript is provided. Therefore, it may not conform to the written grammatical or syntactical form.
Job Offer Received on STEM OPT, but H1B filed by another company
Hello Rajiv Sir,
I recently received a full-time job offer with a tech company-A, and I am planning to start employment with them on STEM OPT, which is ending in 4 months. My H1B is picked by company-B, and they are open to C2C.
Company-A is not e-verified yet, and I am about to being my employment in 10 days. Given that I only have 4 months left in STEM OPT, and my H1B may begin on October 1st. How should I approach this situation if I want to continue working with Company A? Can I begin my day-1 CPT right after my H1B is approved, and continue my employment with Company A on Day-1 CPT until I find any employer wiling to sponsor H1B transfer later in the future? Will I loose my H1B status if I go with this route?
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