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You can change jobs while being on an H1B. It is commonly referred to as H1B transfer.
by hebdo 11y ago
You can change jobs while being on an H1B. It is commonly referred to as H1B transfer.
- readams 11y agoYou can change jobs but it requires going through a bureaucratic obstacle, and if you ever find yourself without a job temporarily, you'd better find a new one _very_ fast or you're deported. Worse, switching jobs can make it a lot harder to get a green card since it resets. H1-B holders seem to find it hard to switch jobs which is why big companies like Cisco are are able to accumulate so many of them. They just park themselves at a big company and try to keep their head down and wait out the green card process. With more flexibility afforded to H1-B holders to find a real market-rate job, many of the perceived problems of the program would go away in my opinion. Natural-born US citizen in the tech industy here.