An employee (myself) works for a company A in the US . Due to some personal reasons and issues with his family, the employee is required to go on voluntary unpaid vacation and travel to his home country ( India ). While in his home country, to sustain himself financially, the employee seeks temporary employment with company B (which is an Indian company). AFter about 2 months of employment, Company B wants to send the employee on a project to US and so it files for a H1 Transfer for the employee. Although the H1 transfer petition of company B gets approved, the approval notice gets lost and the employee never uses it as he does not want to travel to US due to his personal family issues in his home country.
After about 10 months, the employee is able to resolve the issues at home and is ready resign from company B in his home country and come back to the US to resume employment with company A (the US based company). During all this time, the employee's H1-B visa with company A remained valid and not revoked becuase he had seeked a voluntary unpaid vacation to address his personal issues at home, so the employee-employer relationship is maintained with company A in the US. The question is what documents, in addition to a valid H1B visa (in passport) and the valid I-797 petition (for company A), will the employee require to return back to the US to resume his employment with company A.

Edited by Customer (name blocked for privacy) on May 14 2008 at 5:42 AM