State Department will allow H-1B workers to renew visas without leaving US

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This is great news for many of us who get our first job after MFE with an H1-B visa.
The State Department will launch a pilot program later this year offering visa renewal options in the US for H-1B specialty occupation workers and other temporary visa holders who are currently required to travel abroad.
Restoring stateside visa renewals, which were discontinued in 2004, will save those applicants from having to leave the country, and will reduce the workload of consular offices abroad, Julie Stufft, deputy assistant secretary for visa services in the Bureau of Consular Affairs, told Bloomberg Law in an interview.
 
thank you, this is awesome news

i have already sent this to dozens of friends working in the States

and the best thing, if i recall correctly, is that you don't have to stop working while the visa gets renewed or changed
 
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