Originally Posted by
LostWanderer
H1B is valid for 6 years and non renewable. I am assuming they are Australians who were on an E3 visa on a 2 year validity and have changed to H1B status for some bizarre reason. Very odd indeed, H1B is a very expensive process for the company and especially during times like these where every dollar counts and survival of any regional is far from guaranteed.
May be a short stay for those guys on the Visas they renew, given AW is likely to furlough pretty far down the list my buddy there tells me.
OK, that might be what's going on. I'm not up on the details of the various visa types. Anyway, I guess the point it that whatever the details of the application are, it wouldn't make sense to be currently hiring folks from another country on a visa at this particular moment in history, so it seems a lot mroe plausible that this is an application for someone who was already employed prior to things going south.