{"id":462,"date":"2012-07-25T19:06:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T01:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=462"},"modified":"2012-07-25T19:06:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T01:06:59","slug":"h1b-approved-but-change-of-status-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"H1B Approved but Change of Status Denied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I think my lawyer screwed me up.\u00a0He told me that my H1B was approved but in the I-797C, it says that my change of status was denied!\u00a0Can I appeal this?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, this may be something that should be appealed but without more information about you case, I don\u2019t see any evidence that your lawyer made a mistake.\u00a0The requirements to obtain an H1B approval and a change of status are completely separate.\u00a0In order to show that you qualify to change your status, you must show that you were in a valid nonimmigrant status at the time you filed your H1B petition AND if your H1B start date was October 1, that your status was valid through October 1 or that you qualified for an exception such as the F1 cap gap rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think my lawyer screwed me up.\u00a0He told me that my H1B was approved but in the I-797C, it says that my change of status was denied!\u00a0Can I appeal this? Yes, this may be something that should be appealed but without more information about you case, I don\u2019t see any evidence that your lawyer made &#8230; <a title=\"H1B Approved but Change of Status Denied\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=462\" aria-label=\"Read more about H1B Approved but Change of Status Denied\">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":[128,21],"tags":[265,173],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cap-gap","category-h-1b-visa","tag-cap-gap","tag-h-1b-visa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","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=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}