Hi,my question is i got approval of transfer of h1b visa for the company A, but during approval date, i came to my home country,my earlier visa got expired on oct 2008...when i requested my company to send my papers/I797 approval notice for visa stamping,unfortunately they r not willing to send the the papers...so is there any option for getting approval notice/papers??as i am eagerly waiting to return to US
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I am an L2 visa holder and after Feb of 2002 the law changed and we became eligible for an EAD. I was volunteering with a 9.11 org at the time and they were keen to put me on the payroll. I submitted my app in about April (when I first found out about the change in the law). A couple of months past with nothing coming back from the INS. My boss got in touch with Sen. Chuck Schummer's office and gave them a hard time. A week later I got an e-mail from the Sen which included a copy of an IRS internal memo from Feb 02 about the new law, along with a copy of the congressional record of it's enactment.

Paperwork went back and forth, and then finally in Sept 02 I recieved my EAD in the mail.

I would highly recommend getting the politico's on your side.

Cheers.