{"id":623,"date":"2012-08-23T18:22:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T00:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=623"},"modified":"2012-08-23T18:22:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T00:22:03","slug":"h1b-renewal-while-adjustment-of-status-is-pending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"H1B Renewal While Adjustment of Status is Pending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I am now in an H1B status and it will expire in a month. I already filed an I-485 adjustment of status and my I-140 after the I-140 was approved.\u00a0I also have an EAD card which is valid for another 9 months and I know I can extend it.\u00a0Do I still need to extend my H1B visa?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is likely in your best interest to extend your H1B unless you have already used your EAD to work for a different employer.\u00a0If, for some reason, your I485 is denied, it is good to have your H1B as a backup.\u00a0Otherwise you would be out of status if the I485 were denied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am now in an H1B status and it will expire in a month. I already filed an I-485 adjustment of status and my I-140 after the I-140 was approved.\u00a0I also have an EAD card which is valid for another 9 months and I know I can extend it.\u00a0Do I still need to extend my &#8230; <a title=\"H1B Renewal While Adjustment of Status is Pending\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=623\" aria-label=\"Read more about H1B Renewal While Adjustment of Status 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":[72,21],"tags":[220,173],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjustment-of-status","category-h-1b-visa","tag-adjustment-of-status","tag-h-1b-visa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","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=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}