Re:H-1B visa fraud: Sunnyvale man indicted for bringing in 6...
by yourapostasy on Sunday November 11, 2018 @08:32AM
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> The current L1 is a visa for transferring from a branch of a company in another country to a branch of the same company in the US.
Also being used by body shops to ship in people who otherwise couldn't get into the US. The process is they open up a marginal nexus in a nation with relatively more lax immigration laws to their origin nation, then transfer via L1 into the US from branch to branch. Identification and enforcement against this kind of abuse is very time-consuming, as there are legitimate situations used by legitimate companies. AWS was pitched/started by guys in South Africa, they legit could come to Seattle Amazon HQ on L1.
Re:H-1B visa fraud: Sunnyvale man indicted for bringing in 6...
by amf12 on Sunday November 11, 2018 @09:26AM
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Actually, L1 is the visa which is also responsible for keeping wages low. Generally it doesn't get a lot of attention. The employees on L1 cannot switch jobs. So a lot of the people coming on L1 accept any wage they can get. Of course, eventually they have to switch to an H1 in order to stay here longer than 5 years.
The current L1 is a visa for transferring from a branch of a company in another country to a branch of the same company in the US. I get that you're not talking about the L1 in its current form, but it's far from being a general mechanism for dealing with short term labor needs.