Employer’s deadline to report a change in a foreign national’s employment

15 daysdays from the event

Widely repeated online as a fifteen-day grace period in which a departing foreign employee must change status, which it is not. It is the employer's notification duty to immigration on dismissal, resignation and similar events. Treating it as the employee's deadline produces both panic and complacency: people rush a status change they may not need on that timetable, and skip the steps that actually apply to them.

Applies to: Employers of foreign nationals — this is the employer’s duty, not the employee’s
Review cadence: Checked once a year

What we have recorded

2026-09-22
15 days
The employer must notify within 15 days where an employment relationship with a foreign national ends or otherwise changes. Separate from anything the employee must do: the employee's own obligations — a workplace change permit or report, or a change of status — run on their own conditions and timing, decided by the current status, the remaining period of stay and whether a new contract exists. Missing it exposes the employer to an administrative fine — see the related penalty series. Note also that a second, unrelated 15-day period exists: the notification route for a qualifying E-1 to E-7 workplace change, which the worker files after moving.
Immigration Act — employer notification of changes in foreign nationals’ employment

One reading so far. This becomes a history the first time the figure moves while we are watching — which is the part that cannot be reconstructed later.

Guides that depend on this figure

When this figure moves, every guide above needs the same edit. That is why it is tracked here rather than copied into each one.