There have been many threads about this but it is a real pain. I was only a day aways of being forced to leave the US. I got one of the last H1B visas in 2010

There have been many threads about this but it is a real pain. I was only a day aways of being forced to leave the US. I got one of the last H1B visas in 2010 before the quota was reached and my F1 expired. Now, happily I got a green card but things could have been much different...