I was on H1b and its valid till Jan 2025. I moved to H4 which is approved on 2nd Aug 2024(as per uscis case status site) but the start date on the H4 doc is mentioned as 01 July 2024.
I have worked in July as I was having valid h1b and am not aware that the start date on h4 document would be on 1st July 2024. My H4 EAD is approved with start date as 07/30/2024. I received the approval documents in the month of August 2024.
May I know if this could cause any issue.
Do I need to inform my employer that am not supposed to work from 07/01 to 07/30.
Could you please advice.
The start date that was requested on I 539 is 07/01.
Background : H4 and H4 EAD applications were submitted along with spouse H1B extension in March 2024 and at that time the regular processing time for H1B application at Vermont is 2.5 months. Hence we mentioned the H4 start date as 07/01.
Later the processing time is increased to 4.5 month in April and to 7 months in May 2024 as per uscis processing time website.
The question that I have is what should be my next step since I worked in the month of July 2024.
USCIS has approved my H4 application in Aug 2024 with start date as 1st July.
Note : H4 EAD is approved with start date as 30 July 2024.
If you requested the H4 start date as 1 July, then you should have stopped working from that date.
If your employer has already run the payroll after 1 July, then you probably can’t do anything now.
If in the future, they (the US embassy or USCIS) raise this issue, then do have some kind of explanation ready.
If they don’t raise any issues, then you will be fine.