Lost H1B, what to do?

Anyone on here that didn't get picked for the visa and had to leave the country? What did you end up doing? In the same situation and am feeling lost. Understand it's not the end of the world, but trying to find a path forward and figuring out next steps.

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Realistically - (a) try to get your company to move you to the London / Toronto / your home country office.

If that doesn't work, then either (b) find a job in London (with the new High Potential Individual Visa you can move there before even having a job, assuming you went to a Top 30 school), or (c) find a job in your home country.

There's also (d) go back to school and do a b/s part-time Master's program, during which you can continue working for your current firm. I think that's stupid though and a high opportunity cost compared to (a-c). 

Finally, if you really want to move back to the states, would recommend targeting large multinationals with the possibility of coming back to NY on an L-1 after [1-3] years. If you can get (a) done then your firm should be aiming for that anyway. 

 

With a new STEM degree you should have 3 years of OPT again? and then more H1-B entries in which there is reserved slots for masters degrees? Someone else correct me if I'm wrong on the latter part but I've seen people go back to school for that STEM degree. I’m also international so will have to worry about this in the future

 

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