H-1B Change of Work Locations: Practical Guidance after AAO’s Matter of Simeio

Late last month, following the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) decision of Matter of Simeio Solutions, LLC, US Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) released draft guidance on the practical application of the decision. USCIS will accept public comments on the draft until June 26, 2015. Even in draft form, we were pleased to see that their guidance really did answer a lot of the lingering questions we had after the Simeio decision (thank you, USCIS!), and since this decision and guidance could potentially affect quite a few H-1B petitioners and applicants who have multiple work locations or have moved locations recently, we thought it would be helpful to review the major points of the guidance as well as a very important deadline (it’s August 19, 2015).

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