我们还有希望留美吗，急啊

我刚问了H4延期的问题,原来PERM应在H16年到期前的365天递出去，现在才有再延一年的理由。我们的6年到期日是03/03/08，可是PERM是11/05/07递的，再查了刚刚延的H1 and H4，是要求延到07/25/08，（根据几个月的在外国的累计日数）。 这就是说这中间有了gap。律师在递140时02/05/08，要我们写了一封信附上，说是证明我们的确有hardship, 才那么需要绿卡。以次理由来催140尽快批下来。

我现在非常担心，在07/25/08以后，我们又以什么理由延期呢，假如140还没批下来。

真是后悔没在每一步都自己紧看着，明明公司也配合，律师却没在H1到期的前365日递PERM, 现在却又说希望07/25 前140得到批准。 若不批，我们是否就给这律师害的要卷包袱回中国了呢？ 还刚下了一个买房的offer, 怎办哪？刚才都急得哭了。。。。

The 7th year AC-21 rule requires that the labor certification application must be pending for 365 days before reaching the H-1B 6-year limit, unless the labor certification application is filed before reaching 5 years in H-1B, he/she is not eligible for the 7th-year extension.

Also, ONLY both I-140 waiters and I-485 waiters whose priority date is 365 days or older can apply for extension of H-1B status "indefinitely" until his/her I-485 application is decided by the USCIS.

For your case, your priority is 11/05/07, so even you I-140 gets approved before the 07/25/08 (assume it is the last H-1B visa date), you still can not get the 7th year H-1B extension, because your priority is less than 365 days. (NOT like in your initial email and the following replies by others, if your I-140 is approved before 07/25/08, your status will be OK, but actually it is not)

Solution: 1) apply for O1 visa

Solution: 2) after I-140 approval, try to keep the job in US, than apply for "Consular Processing" in China to get immigrant visa (Green Card).

Also see
http://www.greencardapply.com/news/news07/news07_0206.htm

http://www.greencardapply.com/h1b/h1b_ac21.htm