Re: H1C visa or wait retrogression out?
One big issue with the H1-C is that if you accept it and then do not like the facility, or they do not like you; you will have roughly less than a month to come up with another facility that can hire under that visa, or you will be forced to leave the US. You cannot reinstate your F-1 status in the Us, but will have to leave to get the I-20 issued again, as well as getting accepted again to a program that qualifies.
Not sure why you did not go thru the AOS process when it had an open window in July. Thought that you would have gone that route when you had the chance at it.
Now, new statistics have come out and there were actually about 800,000 petitions for the I-485 submitted last month, both for the ones that were being petitioned, as well as their dependents.
Without already having a PD date and being in the process, there is no way that anyone can tell you anything. Do not expect anything to be coming up this year in terms of extra visas for nurses; visas have already been recapped and used, so not sure where they would take them from; there are none waiting to be used. This is a new fiscal year and what ever was available were just used in the last few months to get those thru the process that had had everything completed and just needed a number.
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