Applied for LCA with Start Date 09/11/2012

[sang521]

My employer is filing for my H1 this April.

My attorney applied for LCA today (i.e. 03/12/2012) with the dates mentioning as employment beginning 09/11/2012 through 09/10/2015.

Question: As per my knowledge H1 starts on OCT 1st. Then why did attorney mentioned these dates ???

[charan]

My employer is filing for my H1 this April.

My attorney applied for LCA today (i.e. 03/12/2012) with the dates mentioning as employment beginning 09/11/2012 through 09/10/2015.

Question: As per my knowledge H1 starts on OCT 1st. Then why did attorney mentioned these dates ???

If it is Extension he can put any dates.

If it is Fresh H-1b then you must say 10.01.2012 to 09.30.2012... Start date has to be 10.01.2012.

You better check with Attorney and ask him why he put the date as 09.01.2012.

[Attorney_22]

The start date of an LCA must be within six months from the date the LCA is filed. Therefore, in preparing your H1B Cap-Subject filing prior to April 1^st, the attorney was required to use September 11^th. However, as stated above, your cap-subject H1B employment may only begin on October 1^st.

[sang521]

Thanks for the reply guys....

@Charan .. This is my first time H1 application.

@Attorney_22 ... So what you said is there is no harm in mentioning diff dates if we are applying LCA prior to Apr 1st. However the cap - subject for H1 always begin on October 1st. Please let me know if I am wrong.