First time H1-b, My I-797 is approved with COS last oct. My old F1 is now expired . Due to covid I couldn’t go for stamping. Now i am planning to to to Mexico for a vacation and thinking of utilizing automatic revalidation. is there any issue with this approach?

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I think you can do this, see here: https://help.cbp.gov/s/article/Article-1218?language=en_US

Starting from the “if you changed your status” part. No idea how it works in practice, but I would just check with your company’s immigration law firm.

Does this mean I don’t have to get a visa stamp anymore if I get this?

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