paakhey, yes you can apply right away after you have your h1 approved. But, almost all employers want time to prove your worthiness cause its a very long term committment and they wont do that quickly. Your category with Bachelors (without 5 yrs of exp.) would be EB3 which is causing problem at this time. I will have more info on this tomorrow and keep you all posted. My suggestion to you if thats the case with Nepal too (which I will know for sure by tomorrow), you better get your masters and apply from EB2 category which has a current date at this time. EB3 has a cut off date of March 1st, 2001. But, God knows what its going to be even for EB1 oir EB2 category as time goes by. Republicans are anti-immigrants...