{"id":597,"date":"2012-08-23T17:36:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T23:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=597"},"modified":"2012-08-23T17:36:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T23:36:53","slug":"h2b-visa-holder-is-looking-for-change-of-status-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"H2B Visa Holder is Looking for Change of Status Options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I\u2019m having a work visa H2B visa right now but my job is going to end soon. I don\u2019t want to leave and I want to stay legal.\u00a0I don\u2019t have a new job but I want to stay here.\u00a0What can I do?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Without more details it is impossible to review all of your options but if you would like to remain in the US to visit and travel, you can apply for a tourist visa and you can remain in the US to travel for up to one year.\u00a0 If you later find a job during that time or would like us to help you find an employer, you can later change back to an appropriate work visa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m having a work visa H2B visa right now but my job is going to end soon. I don\u2019t want to leave and I want to stay legal.\u00a0I don\u2019t have a new job but I want to stay here.\u00a0What can I do? Without more details it is impossible to review all of your options but &#8230; <a title=\"H2B Visa Holder is Looking for Change of Status Options\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=597\" aria-label=\"Read more about H2B Visa Holder is Looking for Change of Status Options\">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":[129,20],"tags":[266,172],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-card","category-h-2b-visa","tag-green-card","tag-h-2b-visa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","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=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}