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FN15.   A foreign national can hold both “adjustment applicant” and H-1B status at the same time.  A university might adopt this “belt and suspenders” approach to ensure that the foreign national remains legally employed.  But this approach can be costly because the regulations require the university, not the faculty member, to absorb the cost of renewing the faculty member’s H-1B status during the pendency of the adjustment application.