H1B Employment Terminated;

[SM1]

Dear Forum Members,

I am on a H1B. My understanding is if my employment is terminated, I am out of status the next day. I interpret this to mean that I am legally required to exit the country on or before the last day of my employment. Is this a correct interpretation?

I would like to read the specific law addressing the above rule for myself. Could someone point me to the the specific law/act reference that addresses the above? I would be most grateful.

Many thanks for your time and effort on this.

[omshiv]

Your understanding is correct.

Once your H1B ceases to exist you no longer are in any Legal Status (unless you have a pending I-485)...thats the reason you'll have to exit the country immediately to avoid being Out of Status...

Note that OoS is different from Illegally present.

[JoeF]

The immigration law is online, e.g., at the USCIS website.

There also is a USCIS memo stating this explicitly.

And every lawyer knows it, see, e.g., http://www.murthy.com/2012/11/26/h1b-layoff-strategy-when-changing-h1b-employer-2/