Re: H1-B fees with employee personal checks? (to be reimbursed by employer)

Thanks for your replies. The employer *will* pay all the fees, they are in no way looking for ways around this. The problem is with the company policy that asks employees to pay their expenses, and then be reimbursed (same goes for travel, for example - they reimburse travel expenses the employee has already covered). So, they want me to write the checks to accompany the H1-B application, and then they will issue checks for the same amount to me later. I don't know why they want to do it this way, I suppose it is some kind of administrative formality. There are two fees: a $500 one and a $190 one - can I pay those myself, given that I will be reimbursed?


Joe Feise wrote:
Bob wrote on 04/08/06 08:28:


My employer is going to apply for my H1-B soon (a nonprofit
organization, part of a university outside of the quota; I am
currently
on OPT). They are going to pay the application fees, but according to
their policy they will do that in a way of reimbursing me. That is, I
will pay now with my personal checks, to accompany the application,
and
they are going to issue my reimbursement checks later. They also do
this
for employee travel, etc.
What worries me: is it possible that the person who deals with my
application rejects it based on my personal checks, if they think it
is
me and not the employer who pays the fee? I asked this question to the
university paralegal who is preparing my H1-B application, and she
said
that my checks would be fine, but she has given some not entirely
correct answers before.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Good luck with that, and you might want to get a lawyer to have a look
instead of a paralegal because it is the employer that has to pay for
it, getting you to pay for it is pretty much a no-no...even if they try
and fiddle the books by doing the tricks of saying you'll sacrifice
first bonus extra in lieu of them paying your fee's....




The H1 application is from the employer, so the checks need to come from the
employer.
Some, not all fees, absolutely have to be paid by the employer. In particular,
the education fee and fraud prevention fee have to be paid by the employer. It
is illegal to even play such tricks with the bonus with respect to these fees.
The actual application fees don't have this restriction. But of course, decent
employers will pick up all the fees...

-Joe
.

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