If you are trying to get your H1B Visa, following are the key points to be remembered before you talk with your future employer.
- When you are interested in processing your H1B visa, get your salary range as per the market standards. This can be done by talking with your friends or searching on websites.
- Talk with your friends whether they know about your future employer and how they have performed in the past.
- Visit your future employer’s website and find out more information about them.
- Visit websites like www.dice.com, www.monster.com, www.hotjobs.com to find out whether your future employer has posted any requirements on these websites. Watch these requirements for couple of months and find out they are constant or any new requirements are added on a periodic basis.
- Try to submit your resume along with necessary information to the future employer.
- When you talk to your future employer’s hiring manager ask them to give a presentation about company, H1B Hiring Process, and facilities provided in USA.
- Expertise: On which IT skills, your future employer is focusing now and what is their focus in near future?
- Clients: Ask your future employer about the major clients they are dealing with and how long it will take to get you placed with the client.
- H1B Visa: Ask your future employer whether they charge any fees for processing H1B Visa. If they don’t then find out about your commitment (handing over certificates, passport, bank guarantee, years of contract in USA etc.)
- Dependents Visa: Ask your future employer whether they will process dependent's visa and when they can come to USA?
- Sign-on-Bonus: This bonus is a sum of money paid to a new employee as an incentive to join in that company. Ask your future employer about this.
- Travel Expenses: Ask your future employer whether your future employer provides airfare for you/spouse/kids from your current location to USA.
- Initial Expenses in USA: Ask your future employer about your initial expenses in USA. Are you eligible for salary from the day one or is there any waiting period. If there is any waiting period, how long it will be and what kind of support will be provided for accommodation, food, and your daily expenses during that waiting period.
- Salary: Ask them about the annual salary. Whether they provide your salary as a check or is that a direct deposit? Is it on monthly basis or on bimonthly basis? On what date salary will be credited to your account?
- Increment in Salary: Ask your future employer about the increment in salary and the waiting period for that.
- Bench Period: This is a term used for the idle time in between the projects. Ask your future employer whether they will pay salary when you don’t have work in between the projects.
- Benefits: Ask them what kind of benefits they provide (health insurance, vision insurance, and dental insurance) and whether you/family/kids are eligible. Are these benefits covered in 50 states of United States and should you pay money for these benefits.
- Green Card: Ask you future employer whether they can process your Green Card. If they do ask them whether you have to pay money for that and is there any waiting period.
- Relocation Expenses: When you move from one place to another, relocation expenses are paid. Ask your future employer how the relocation expense is paid? Is that a flat amount on yearly basis or it will be provided on project-to-project basis.
- Vacation: Ask your future employer about the number of days of vacation you have in a calendar year.
- 401k Plan: Ask you future employer whether they can provide 401k plan.
- Training: Ask your employer whether they can provide training on IT skills that you want to improve.
- Incentives: Ask your future employer whether they provide incentives based on your performance and reimburse your expenses.
- Referral Plans: Ask your future employer whether they will provide referral bonus if you refer an employee to them.
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