H1 Stamping Doubt

[rkdnc9]

Hi All..

I am on H1 since Oct 07. I haven't left USA so far and so I haven't gone for stamping. However, I heard that I need to go to stamping before completion of 1yr after getting H1. Is this true? and to what cases does this rule apply?

Please help. I am confused.

Thanks,
rkdnc9.

[gcdreamer05]

Originally Posted by rkdnc9

Hi All..

I am on H1 since Oct 07. I haven't left USA so far and so I haven't gone for stamping. However, I heard that I need to go to stamping before completion of 1yr after getting H1. Is this true? and to what cases does this rule apply?

Please help. I am confused.

Thanks,
rkdnc9.

You can stay as long as you have the 797 with you, but if you leave teh country u can come back only with stamping....

[sina]

You can stay here as long as the I797 is valid (there is no rule to stamp it within a year). Do you have H1B stamped frome before or is this your first H1? If the first one then you have to get it stamped when you travel out of US. If this is not the first one then you can travel back on your old H1 stamp with new I797.

[rkdnc9]

gcdreamer, sina,

thanks for the quick resp. this is my first H1 and so I don't have any stampings on my passport yet.

Thanks once again.

-rkdnc9