{"id":449,"date":"2012-07-15T07:37:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T13:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=449"},"modified":"2012-07-25T19:08:08","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T01:08:08","slug":"h1b-visa-and-h4-visa-extension-marriage-green-card-qa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=449","title":{"rendered":"H1B Visa and H4 Visa Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Is my H4 extended automatically when my husband extended his H1B?\u00a0I\u2019m worried because he got a new I-94 card when he extended his H1B but I haven\u2019t gotten anything.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An H4 visa status application may be filed concurrently with an H1B status application but they remain separate applications.\u00a0If you did not file your own application then you will not receive a new I-94 card and are out of status and are accruing unlawful presence from the time your I-94 card expired.\u00a0In some cases, USCIS will accept an untimely filed H4 visa status extension application but it can be difficult.\u00a0We have been able to obtain approvals in these types of cases and some cases where the applicant was out of status for two years.\u00a0However, it is important to have a good immigration history which means no previous immigration violations as well as no criminal history and generally have a record of good moral character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is my H4 extended automatically when my husband extended his H1B?\u00a0I\u2019m worried because he got a new I-94 card when he extended his H1B but I haven\u2019t gotten anything. An H4 visa status application may be filed concurrently with an H1B status application but they remain separate applications.\u00a0If you did not file your own application &#8230; <a title=\"H1B Visa and H4 Visa Extension\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=449\" aria-label=\"Read more about H1B Visa and H4 Visa Extension\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,126,30],"tags":[173,263,182],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-h-1b-visa","category-h-4-visa","category-marriage-green-card","tag-h-1b-visa","tag-h-4-visa","tag-marriage-green-card"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}