Posted by: thatAngryGuy January 17, 2018
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Ok, now it makes sense.
You will not have any issues for not maintaining status because your status was always valid.
However, 797 approval gives you status only, not travel authorization. For that, you need valid visa ( not expired visa ) in your passport. The only exception would be advanced parole. You might have got wrong information from somewhere. If you were on F1 and your f1 visa on your passport had expired, you would not be allowed to enter just based on valid i20. You needed to renew the visa based on your i-20 , that is what I did when I was student.
So for your case, if you travel outside this country , to re-enter, you need to get h1b stamping .
You will not have any issues for not maintaining status because your status was always valid.
However, 797 approval gives you status only, not travel authorization. For that, you need valid visa ( not expired visa ) in your passport. The only exception would be advanced parole. You might have got wrong information from somewhere. If you were on F1 and your f1 visa on your passport had expired, you would not be allowed to enter just based on valid i20. You needed to renew the visa based on your i-20 , that is what I did when I was student.
So for your case, if you travel outside this country , to re-enter, you need to get h1b stamping .