This is more complicated than that. H1B is a visa and a status.
As long as you have a valid H1b status, you can stay in the US indefinitely. Having a physical visa in your passport is optional, you only need it when you want to cross back into the US.
Re:Updates to H-1B
by outworlder on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @03:46PM
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Correct.
Some DMVs like to pretend they are USCIS and they want to see the physical visa in your passport. Annoyed me to no end.
Re:Updates to H-1B
by pockmarked19 on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @05:15PM
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It’s pretty easy to predict which way votes will go when peering into an echo chamber. Just watch.
Edit: and, it's flagged and gone. Voila.
That’s the simple truth. They do that for all types of visas. My mother had to do it, until she finally (reluctantly) became a US citizen, and she lived here, most of her life.
I think she had long-term visas, though. I only remember her doing it a couple of times. I think I went with her, on one of the trips.