Immigrant, Employer Get H-1B Visa Approval After Suing (1)

An immigrant who was denied an H-1B visa extension while waiting for his preapproved green card to become available has had that denial reversed a week after filing a lawsuit.

Ajay Kuchikulla, an Oracle database administrator for Dublin, Ohio-based ERP Analysts Inc., had his H-1B skilled guestworker visa retroactively extended by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Feb. 4, Virginia-based immigration attorney Jonathan Wasden told Bloomberg Law. The agency admitted that it made a mistake, he said.

Wasden, who represents Kuchikulla’s employer, filed the lawsuit in federal district court Jan. 28 after Kuchikulla was denied what likely would have been the ...