Switching From Type O Visa To Type B

[AmyRyan]

Until now, I have been on a type B visa with a work permit and my husband has been on a type O volunteer visa. However we are now expecting our first child so I will be resigning from my job and my husband will be getting a work permit so that the baby and I can be his dependents.

My question is, our current visas expire in September, but we will be in the US from May through August. Would it be better to apply for the type B visa from the US, so that we enter the country with the correct visa, or should we enter the country in August using our old visas and then make the switch once we are back here? The company that's issuing him the invitation doesn't seem to have a clue.

[Mario2008]

As you will be in the US already, I would apply for the correct visas in the US with paperwork from your husbands to be employer. Let the company also request for a visa for you and the child as his dependents.

For most jobs your husband will need to have an income of at least 50,000 a month before immigration will give him an extension of stay and let you and the child be a dependent of him.

[attrayant]

For most jobs your husband will need to have an income of at least 50,000 a month before immigration will give him an extension of stay and let you and the child be a dependent of him.

I vaguely remember reading that teaching is one of the exceptions for the minimum income requirement. Is that true or is the requirement just lower for foreign teachers?

[Maestro]

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[lopburi3]

Teachers are exempt from income requirements for extension of stay.

[asiaexpat]

Slightly off topic, sorry. How did your husband het a visa to volunteer without a work permit and did he not need a work permit to work as a volunteer? This is a blocking point for me volunteering recently is why I ask.

[Mario2008]

Getting a visa without a work permit (application) depends on where you apply. In the region you will need this, but outside the region a letter from a charity inviting you to volunteer for them and asking for a visa for you will do nicely at many consulates.

The work permit can be issued for volunteering for a registered charity, easy to do but the charity must organise the aperwork together with you. Most times it is simply a problem that the organisation is not a registred charity or that the organisation doesn't know how to proceed. A simple talk with the local labour office will most times put them on the right track.