You got your U.S. VISA, you started your job. But for some reason, you’ll have to leave the company. What happens next? Can you stay in the USA? Or do you have to leave? Can you work for another company? Can you transfer your VISA?

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hello everybody and welcome back to another exciting immigrant story from the united states and another great topic and information if you would like to move to the united states uh the best options visa categories you know how you can do things uh quickly etc

also for immigration to the united states of course one question that always came up and it is it is really hot it’s a hot topic it’s about wait a minute but not what happens if imagine that case you received a visa you got your sponsorship you moved to the united states you started working no matter what category you have and then for all of a sudden you get laid off or even worse you get fired or whatever for what reason or you quit your job and you say like i’m done and i don’t want to work for this company anymore what happens in this case boom right here right now at gousa.live

i am explaining everything to you and from experience i can tell you what you have to expect what you have to be prepared for and what the reality looks like so imagine or not it also happened to me and it’s definitely not the nicest or easiest uh thing because you really need to think ahead you need to plan if you think about this already that you have like mixed feelings about the position you have etc and you really need to be uh aware of this situation so what’s happening first of all let’s say you got a visa it doesn’t matter if you’re on an h1b or if working authorization you have a j1 visa trainee category or whatever

right if you lose your job no matter what it really doesn’t matter if you quit if you get laid off if you get fired you know it doesn’t matter then obviously you have to leave the united states of america within four weeks that is hardcore policy what does it mean now listen very careful is it is really very brutal and it shows how the dependency works how powerful actually the sponsor is in this position because any company knows any sponsor knows if they are going to lay off if they drop it basically your right to stay in the united states is also gone.

you cannot stay and live in the united states it is required that you have a job and that you have a sponsor who is supporting you and if you don’t have this you need to find in the four weeks you have another company and another job so that’s rule number one or you have to leave the united states now that happened to me i remember first of all once it happened to me at the very beginning when i decided i’m looking for another company.

so if you didn’t hear my story yet what happened at my first company and the lawyer was not able to give me the right visa applications or the right path and that lawyer really sucked and I was told as you know after 16 months or whatever like look I don’t have the qualifications I have to pack my and move back to Europe um and I invested 250 dollars by the house movement my entire family right but if you haven’t heard this story I recommend going to my website gousa.live or check out my other podcasts in which I’m talking about this

so this can be very shocking but realities you have to leave the reason is why i also say i would recommend you leaving and not staying if you cannot find another job in the us in that short period of time is if you break that rule or that law then so to speak your name is marked in the system and even so if you would leave at a later time right then it’s actually required to leave you will have some serious problems if you would like to re-enter because your name is in the system and once you try to fly back or whatever they basically will bounce you back and say like wait a minute.

we have a problem here because you know you uh followed not the rules the policies or the law and that’s why you are done you cannot re-enter even if you would have other job opportunities in the u.s so what what it really means for you is it’s a tough situation and you have only those two options option number one you find in that short period of time which is four weeks a new sponsor and a new company with a new job that means you really have to hurry up you really have to like go on this like mission impossible right and make sure you are going to succeed

if you don’t well then you have option number two that’s the only option you have you have to leave the united states now you can say look i’m flying back to my home country that’s so totally up to you or you go somewhere else and you stay there and here comes now a funny part is a very interesting part also the situation might not be very funny i have to say that i was in those shoes once in the telly also how i mastered it but uh fact is basically when this happens and let’s assume you cannot find another job in that short period of time and you move somewhere else outside of the united states.

and let’s say your first visa you received was valid for like let’s say 18 months and you only spend eight months on this visa you still have like 10 months left that means if you find another sponsor another company you can still use all those days you have not been using up on the previous visa that applies to any visa category so even if you let’s say have an h1b and that might happen to you which is valid for three years and let’s say in the first year you lose your job or you quit or you get fired or or whatever happens and you basically used up one year of this entire visa right and you leave you still have the two other years on this valid visa and nobody can steal this from you

it’s basically at this point the time stops you have been not using up those days and you can use it to a later time but you would need to leave and then when you’re outside of the united states you need to find another company that brings you back on board now i’m going to tell you what happened to me two times and how i mastered that situation the first situation was the falling i was working uh at a company later on which i did not like the economy was also very bad at that point everything was going down and it was very tricky to find even a company that was willing to sponsor you so at that point i also saw like wait a minute what should i do should i stay at that company

i just don’t like and torture myself and it was really not easy and also the location i have been it was in an area i really didn’t like very much and so i said like okay do i go through this torture the company didn’t want to let me go the company didn’t say anything like hey uh we don’t want to keep or whatever they have been happy that they had me on board because i brought the knowledge to the team but i was unhappy i was like no way and at this point i wanted to find other opportunities in the united states but economy was so bad

and i was not able to get anything like really it was almost a curse i felt like how can that be because usually i don’t have any problems finding a job but when the economy was so down like there was no company that wanted to hire anybody at that time so for me there was then one solution left basically i had i had two options i stay and go through this torture but i said no i don’t want to do that you know i’m not like this is this is in the first place? Wyhy?

i also wanted to change my life because i want to have a better life but unfortunately in a very short period of time that company i was working for it turned out to be well not a great fit for me let’s keep it this way and stuff like this is going to happen i tell you i guarantee you uh you might like one company but you might not like another one so i decided then and this was of course also tricky i decided to pack all my stuff and go back to europe i moved back to munich and to germany and said you know what if i cannot find a better company in the united states then temporary i have to move back and i did it so you have to keep in mind when you cancel everything you’re you’re signed up a lease or you have a house uh you might consider selling it or you might you know consider renting it

you have a car you have all those other assets that’s very pricey and especially moving or flying back from the united states with the uh family of five um it’s very pricey one ticket you know like 2k you burn immediately 10 20 000 euros with the move like easily okay so that’s what i did and what i did from the united states i was looking for other companies other job opportunities i found one in munich and they said hey come on boof we bring you here and you can start immediately and you want to do it want to give it a try and then i said troop you know made this decision and flew back to europe even if i had my h-1b visa

now i knew of course that my visa the time i did not spend is not gone and i also knew like well you know it’s not my my best option right now or the thing i really wanted to do but what can i do there is you know you have to always evaluate what’s the best situation so what i did was brutal i took my whole family that was after i think uh three years then and we bounced back when i was actually back in in munich and i was visiting friends in australia so everybody said so what are you doing here why are you here i thought you’re in the united states or you you don’t like it there you didn’t like it or you didn’t make it or whatever right

but i didn’t even try to explain because when you’re in this position as an immigrant people don’t even know they don’t even know requireme