Meet H1B Clock — Recapture your H-1B days

What H1B Clock does

Your H-1B clock is running — but every full day you have spent outside the United States can be added back to it. USCIS does not track those days for you. When your six-year limit approaches, the burden is on you to produce a day-by-day account of every trip abroad, backed by I-94 records, passport stamps, and boarding passes. Most people reconstruct it in a spreadsheet, under an attorney's deadline, from memory and expired passports.

H1B Clock is the private, fully offline trip ledger that keeps that record for you from day one.

Add each trip once — departure date, return date, destination — and the app maintains your running total of recapturable full days. The counting convention that breaks homemade spreadsheets is applied automatically: only complete 24-hour days abroad are tallied; the partial days you depart and return are excluded. Your dashboard shows time used, days recaptured, and a projected max-out horizon that updates with every trip — figures you can review with your attorney or company immigration team long before anything is due.

The official CBP I-94 website shows only about five years of raw arrival and departure rows, frequently misses land crossings, and does no math. H1B Clock is the ledger you keep yourself, for as long as you need it.

Attach photos of passport stamps, I-94 printouts, boarding passes, and tickets so each trip carries its own evidence. When you are asked for a table of all time spent outside the U.S., generate it in one tap: a chronological table of every trip with dates and full-day counts, exported as PDF or CSV.

Track a spouse's or child's H-4 or L-2 travel alongside your own, and set reminders for visa stamp expiry, passport expiry, I-94 end date, and petition validity.

Everything stays on your device. No account, no cloud, no server ever sees your travel history.

H1B Clock is a personal record-keeping and reminder tool. It does not provide legal advice, does not determine your immigration status, and is not affiliated with USCIS or CBP. Always confirm figures and filing strategy with your attorney or international office.

• Trip log with automatic full-day recapture counting • Recaptured-days total and projected max-out horizon • Trip table exported as PDF or CSV for your attorney • Photo attachments: stamps, I-94 printouts, boarding passes • H-4 and L-2 dependent tracking • Reminders for visa stamp, passport, I-94, and petition dates • Fully offline — nothing leaves your device

A look inside

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What's inside

• Max-Out Clock — A dashboard that shows time used against the six-year (or L-1 five/seven-year) limit, total full days recaptured so far, and the projected max-out horizon that moves out with every logged trip.
• Trip Log — Add each trip abroad with departure date, return date, destination, and purpose; the app computes the recapturable full days per trip using the full-24-hour-day convention (departure and return days excluded).
• Recapture Table Export — Generates the chronological table of all time spent outside the US — the exact artifact attorneys and ISSS offices request — with per-trip full-day counts and a grand total, exported as PDF or CSV.
• Evidence Vault — Attach photos of passport stamps, I-94 printouts, boarding passes, and tickets to each trip so the documentation that recapture requests depend on lives next to the dates it proves.
• Family Tracking — Keep a separate trip ledger for a spouse or child on H-4 or L-2 status, each with their own passport and key dates, all in the same private app.
• Key-Date Reminders — Track visa stamp expiry, passport expiry, I-94 end date, and petition validity per person, with local notification reminders at configurable lead times.

Why we built it

Every full 24-hour day an H-1B or L-1 worker spends outside the US can be recaptured to extend their maximum stay, but USCIS explicitly does not compute it: the worker must produce a documented day-by-day table of up to six years of trips, and the official CBP I-94 site offers only ~5 years of raw rows with no math, n…

What makes it different

The CBP I-94 site gives raw entry rows with no recapture math; law-firm Excel templates miscount partial days and track nothing continuously; VisaVerge's free web calculator is one-shot with no trip log, attachments, or export; and generic day-counters (Immio, TrackingDays, Green Card Trips) do Substantial Presence or…

Who it's for

People who have tried every productivity app and bounced off the noise. If you want something calm, fast, and private, this is for you.

In one line: Recapture your H-1B days

Try it

See the Recapture your H-1B days for the full feature list, the info table, and support links.

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