snowbunny

I always look for loopholes. Without exploiting loopholes in the system, I would never have gotten this far, and life would have been far more boring

doc d

thats great. a straight answer with an explanation, from someone who's in a similar position. rather than a flat "no. you can't".
i'll start talking to an immigration lawyer about the possibility of converting her h4 to b1 while we're applying for the "green card".
i'm in my second year of an H-1B. she's been there, i've been here for the last 18 months. we're looking at ways to get this working for us. H4 solves the immediate problem, green card/consultancy work (b1) solves the long term.

NC Penguin

Look. I suggested you go to the US Visas and US Immigration forums where there many people on H1-Bs and H-4s. Have you looked at either forum? Have you conducted a search in both?

Answers to your question about your wife working is probably in one of those forums...



NC Penguin

fatbrit

Hey everybody! Marvelous news! Pulaski's 8 is dead. Just get yourself a B-1 and you too can live and work in the US of A.

Now don't all those who slaved away at getting the right visa look stoopid, eh?

doc d

and thats fine. and i am looking. but!
someone answered my question, which praise be to the moderators of this board/forum/world in which those who can type faster than they can speak are king, and i'm really thankful/grateful/happy that they did. in the perfect way. before it spiraled off forever into the realms of "well you could sit on a boat on thursdays, water-ski to bermuda on fridays, take a jet flight to cuba (via canada of course)" and then nothing got done.

how often does that happen?
so now, armed with this information i can start asking a lawyer other questions, about b visas, about work permits while applying for a green card and so on and so forth.

so, to make sure that you're not upset NC, thank you for pointing me in the direction of the forums about immigration but most h4 topics that i've stumbled across haven't been that great. for instance, there's a man moaning that his wife (who he married on the phone and hasn't seen. ever.) can't get an h4.
so you'll forgive me for being dubious as to finding an answer as quickly as the one i've received.
eh?

Manc

Are you sure that's right?????????

doc d

that's why i'm going to ask.
i got the answer i want to the first question i asked here.
i'm not going to push my luck for today.


and after 5 more minutes looking around, thats b-1 visas out the window....
work permits and green cards it is.

fatbrit

It'll all end in tears...

But the guy's a doc, so I'm sure he must be right on this one...

snowbunny

Thanks for the insults. You got your answer before I asked my questions.

Sometimes I learn something that can help myself or others if I persist in asking questions to satisfy my curiosity.

The risk you take in posting in the Lifestyle section is that this forum is not dedicated to immigration questions.

dbj1000

That's right NC, because I didn't answer the question at all, did I?

Personally, I don't share this little obsession with posting each question in the "approved" forum... but at least you've stopped moving them all over the place!

Manc

you cannot work at all on a H4 visa.


I am sure I said this on post number 2.

Ray

Umm !! a bit nasty that ... Thats one of the things MODS are meant to do ....

Manc

we would have moved it to alt.lamps.electricity.voltage but we couldn't find the usernet group.

dbj1000

Ray called me nasty!

Thanks Ray, you made my week.

snowbunny

ah the good old days of alt.docd.boink.boink.boink