{"id":525,"date":"2012-08-22T19:24:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T01:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=525"},"modified":"2012-08-22T19:24:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T01:24:40","slug":"concurrent-h1b-visas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=525","title":{"rendered":"Concurrent H1B Visas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We applied and received H1B visas for an employee last year. He is planning to return to the University of Illinois as a post-doctoral fellow (would be employed full time by the university).\u00a0We would also like to maintain his status with our company on a part time basis to\u00a0help out with projects on an as-needed basis (0-20 hours per week).\u00a0Can we do that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While employment visas like the H1B are employer specific, an H1B holder may have concurrent H1B visas.\u00a0This means that the USCIS can authorize a foreign national to work for one employer in H1B status for a certain number of hours per week and a different employer in H1B status for a different number of hours per week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We applied and received H1B visas for an employee last year. He is planning to return to the University of Illinois as a post-doctoral fellow (would be employed full time by the university).\u00a0We would also like to maintain his status with our company on a part time basis to\u00a0help out with projects on an as-needed &#8230; <a title=\"Concurrent H1B Visas\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=525\" aria-label=\"Read more about Concurrent H1B Visas\">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":[143,21],"tags":[275,173],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concurrent-h-1b-visa","category-h-1b-visa","tag-concurrent-h-1b-visa","tag-h-1b-visa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","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=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}