martini0328 asked:
Okay, so I am a foreign national who recently got hired by a consulting firm based in the U.S. They sponsored for my H-1 Visa application, but the application was not approved.( The U.S. Custom and Immigration Services uses a lottery system) So now i am left with a Student F-1 Visa OPT which runs out at the end of 2008. I have talked to the Human Resource personnel of my hiring company about possibly transferring me to one of the Overseas branches for a year so we could try applying for an H-1 visa again next year. However, they are saying it’s hard to do.(not impossible. but they just don’t want to make that commitment to a new, untested recruit) Now ..the company hired me knowing that I was a foreigner and that getting an H-1 visa is a crapshoot. But now they are leaving me out to dry.
Okay, so I am a foreign national who recently got hired by a consulting firm based in the U.S. They sponsored for my H-1 Visa application, but the application was not approved.( The U.S. Custom and Immigration Services uses a lottery system) So now i am left with a Student F-1 Visa OPT which runs out at the end of 2008. I have talked to the Human Resource personnel of my hiring company about possibly transferring me to one of the Overseas branches for a year so we could try applying for an H-1 visa again next year. However, they are saying it’s hard to do.(not impossible. but they just don’t want to make that commitment to a new, untested recruit) Now ..the company hired me knowing that I was a foreigner and that getting an H-1 visa is a crapshoot. But now they are leaving me out to dry.
Can i sue them? I quit my old job for this new job, and they already replaced me so i cant even go back. I am , as you can imagine, very pissed.
Bobby
