On H-1B, do I really have to count every day in the U.S. for the substantial presence test?
I kept looking for some kind of exempt-individual relief because I assumed all nonimmigrant work visas had at least some day-count exception built into them. The IRS H-1B material makes it sound like that assumption is just wrong, but I want to be sure because counting every day changes the residency timeline much faster than I first expected.
If the H-1B rule really is that every day counts unless some different exception applies, then I want to stop mentally grouping it with student and scholar categories and treat the residency file more aggressively from the start.
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