H1B Visa Transfer

[alfredomeinhard]

My company is going to be acquired by another company and the new company will file the application to transfer my H1B visa to this new company. I want to know if I can travel outside the USA and come back while the transfer is in process, or I have to wait until I get the approval for the transfer to travel outside the USA and come back.

The other question is, do I have to have the transferred visa stamped in my passport to be able to come back to the US, or I can use the visa from my old company along with the receipt or the approval?

[txh1b]

If the sompany is a successor, no H1b transfer is needed if the new company assumed all interest along with immigration from the original company.

Travel while a transfer is pending is not recommended but possible and you never need a new visa if your current visa is valid for a H1b.

Check forums for travel with pending cases. We have had a few recently. Search key work is clone or cloning.