Re:H-1B Models Strut Into U.S. as Programmers Pray for Help
by pbiggar on Monday May 20, 2013 @03:46AM
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Everybody else is using Bwaivers. You're not doing short-term work for your clients, you're working for your company in your home country, and visiting clients.
Re:H-1B Models Strut Into U.S. as Programmers Pray for Help
by keerthiko on Monday May 20, 2013 @04:24AM
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You would think, but I have been researching the variety of visas available to folk in the tech industry.
Theoretically, the L1 [1] is supposed to fill the role for business trips based on partnerships and relationships between companies. But for whatever weird reason the client-consultant relationship is not valid for an L1, but only parent-child companies, headquarter-branch or affiliates. In fact, in light of me not getting a H1B, yet have a company registered in the US, I am pretty sure I'll just go register a company in my home-country as an affiliate of my company here and come back on an L1 visa. This is all very obsolete and convoluted, and is just making people skip ropes and jump hoops for no good reason.
[1] http://www.immihelp.com/l1-visa/l1-visa-h1b-visa-comparison....
There only seem to be 2 kinds of visas: B1 (business) which does not allow you to bill anybody in the US, and H1B which is an overkill for 1-2 days on-site visits (not to mention that this visa usually implies moving to the US to take a full-time position with a company there).
But there must be some kind of provision for consultants doing short-term work in the US; it's such a common practice all over the world. Am I missing something?