> It's also worth noting that H1Bs have different reentry permissions based on your country of origin. IIRC a mainland Chinese born coworker told me he could only renenter the US on his H1B for the first year of each 3 year H1B.
There isn't a separate re-entry restriction, it's just the expiry date of the visa stamp in the passport.
For Chinese nationals, US consulates only issued visa stamps valid for 1 year. I am not sure if this is still the case.
This would be a non-issue if visa stamps could be issued within the country (like basically every other country on earth), and in fact the US did issue stamps internally in the old days, but after 9/11 they changed it so only foreign diplomats and officials of UN, NATO etc can get visa stamps here.
There isn't a separate re-entry restriction, it's just the expiry date of the visa stamp in the passport.
For Chinese nationals, US consulates only issued visa stamps valid for 1 year. I am not sure if this is still the case.
This would be a non-issue if visa stamps could be issued within the country (like basically every other country on earth), and in fact the US did issue stamps internally in the old days, but after 9/11 they changed it so only foreign diplomats and officials of UN, NATO etc can get visa stamps here.