{"id":2221,"date":"2014-05-12T03:05:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T15:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swlgpc.com\/en\/blog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2014-05-12T03:05:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T15:05:42","slug":"quick-update-revalidation-of-l-1-blanket-visa-stamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/quick-update-revalidation-of-l-1-blanket-visa-stamps\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Update: Revalidation of L-1 Blanket Visa Stamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Currently, when an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/en\/ourservices\/nonimmigrantvisas\/l1\/\">L-1 Blanket Visa<\/a> is approved by the U.S. Consulate, a five (5) year visa stamp is issued.\u00a0 However, while the visa stamp (in the passport) is valid for a five-year period, the visa petition (I-129S) must be revalidated after three (3) years in order for the beneficiary and family to continue to use the visa and lawfully stay in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>At this juncture, we have information as of April 2, 2014 from the <a href=\"http:\/\/japan.usembassy.gov\/\">U.S. Embassy in Tokyo<\/a> that they will be revalidating visas, <i>i.e<\/i>, issuing a new visa stamp for persons having a visa stamp for five (5) years, when the initial period on the I-129S (normally three (3) years) is up.<\/p>\n<p>The Customs and Border Control have not indicated a clear policy, so the only two avenues at this point available to renew the Blanket L-1 visa after the three (3) year period are:\u00a0 (1) by filing an individual L-1 extension petition with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/\">USCIS<\/a>, or (2) applying for a new Blanket L-1 visa stamp at the U.S. Embassy\/Consulate in Japan.\u00a0 Although the U.S. Embassy is still issuing 5-year visa stamps, it would seem to be meaningless since after the first three (3) years, the visa stamp must be revalidated and the Embassy would issue a new visa stamp at that time.<\/p>\n<p>We hope that we will receive clarification from the other government agencies to provide you with more options.\u00a0 However, at this time, our recommendation is to either extend an L-1 status with USCIS or return to Japan to obtain a new Blanket L-1 visa stamp for an additional period of time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/en\/aboutus\/ourteam\/#dvs\">David Sindell, Esq.<\/a><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\">SW Law Group, P.C.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently, when an L-1 Blanket Visa is approved by the U.S. Consulate, a five (5) year visa stamp is issued.\u00a0 However, while the visa stamp (in the passport) is valid for a five-year period, the visa petition (I-129S) must be revalidated after three (3) years in order for the beneficiary and family to continue to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[8,15,10],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2221"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}