{"id":582,"date":"2012-08-22T19:57:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T01:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=582"},"modified":"2012-08-22T19:57:15","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T01:57:15","slug":"h1b-visa-application-while-i-140-niw-is-pending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"H1B Visa Application while I-140 NIW is Pending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I&#8217;m currently on OPT and I just got a job offer.\u00a0The company is willing to sponsor me for an H1B visa.\u00a0I have a pending I-140 through NIW.\u00a0Can I apply for an H1B visa while my I-140 is pending.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Certainly.\u00a0An H1B Visa allows the applicant to have both immigrant and nonimmigrant intent so you may apply and obtain an H1B visa while you have a green card application pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently on OPT and I just got a job offer.\u00a0The company is willing to sponsor me for an H1B visa.\u00a0I have a pending I-140 through NIW.\u00a0Can I apply for an H1B visa while my I-140 is pending. Certainly.\u00a0An H1B Visa allows the applicant to have both immigrant and nonimmigrant intent so you may apply &#8230; <a title=\"H1B Visa Application while I-140 NIW is Pending\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=582\" aria-label=\"Read more about H1B Visa Application while I-140 NIW is Pending\">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":[21,39],"tags":[173,190],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-h-1b-visa","category-national-interest-waiver","tag-h-1b-visa","tag-national-interest-waiver"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","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=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}