H1B境内续签九月最新Update

在别的群里看到的，地里好像还没人发，转过来一下，是BAL律所专门讨论这个话题（domestic visa renewal）的一期 podcast，链接在下面，大家不想听可以直接点下面的 ”Read the transcript >“ 看文字内容

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总结一下重要的部分（Derentz 是 BAL 的律师）：

Derentz: Overall, the feedback has been very positive, and we [BAL] actually provided some feedback to the Visa Office to consider as they assess the pilot and plan next steps. But overall, we heard a lot of very positive experiences, and I think in many ways the department exceeded people’s expectations as far as timing and how easy it was to do the program.

大意是今年年初的 pilot 非常成功，反馈很不错，超出了大家预期 （还吹了一下BAL的贡献，给了Visa Office 一些 feedback）

被问到项目什么时候会正式回归：

When asked whether this positive feedback means an official return of domestic visa renewals, Derentz was hesitant to give an absolute yes.

Derentz: We are hearing that there will be a domestic visa renewal program, but we likely won’t hear more until the end of the year or early 2025. Hence my hesitation on the yes, because it is an election year and there is an election that happens right around the end of the year.

感觉律师对这个项目本身有信心，但是不敢说最后一定会回归，因为今年年底有大选

I could also see businesses putting a lot of pressure on the administration to keep it in place because ultimately the visas that are permitted to be issued under the existing regulations are business related categories. But if it never gets up and running and we have an administration change, I would be very surprised if it a new administration brought it back. Even if all the planning and everything was in place and they were ready to make that announcement, I would be surprised if the new administration brought it forward.

如果明年有”new administration“，律师对项目的未来持悲观态度，因为特朗普政府之前取消过类似的 program（签证面试豁免）

When domestic visa renewals ceased in 2004 after 9/11, the regulations were never updated, so the underlying authority is in existence. It’s been there and it’s always been there, but the prior administration was not going to bring back domestic visa renewal, especially not when Trump pulled back interview waiver authorities, which is a very similar basis to what the domestic visa renewal program is based on and required applicants to be interviewed for a visa.

如果没有新政府，现在的DOJ是打算全面重启境内签证的，重启的时候在加拿大和印度之外的H1B，和配偶的H4都可以申请。之后也会慢慢扩大到其他签证类型

Derentz: Under the current administration, yes, there are plans to have a domestic visa renewal program. And similar to the pilot, we expect that H-1B visa holders who were not originally included in a pilot, for example, somebody whose visa was issued somewhere other than Canada or India, would be eligible for the new program once it’s launched. And we also expect that their family members on H-4 visas would also be eligible.

The domestic renewal program, it would no longer be a pilot at that point. The program may include other temporary visa classes, and in fact the regulations actually already allow the department to do this. They just haven’t done them in a long time, so I don’t expect them to include all of them at once, but instead to expand the program over time.

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TLDR，总结下来就是，pilot非常成功，但是official launch没有时间线，大选结果对会项目带来很大不确定性