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Thanks it's certainly an interesting factor in the mix of salaries for IT professionals. It will be interesting to see if the government decides to cap these visas if they impact the marketplace significantly. It would be interesting to compare how the employment rate would look for IT professionals in the US if all of these 80,000 jobs were US only employees. From my understanding we still have a labor shortage in the US for IT professionals, so would this add to the shortage?
Shane it's a very interesting overview. Do you have any information on the trends over the past years in these L-1 visas? It would be interesting to see if they are increasing especially from 2008 to now.
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11/17/2014 | 2:50:58 PM
The big boy's bring folks in on blanket L-1B's issued at US Consulates (where the bar is pretty low, depending on the visa officer), but when it comes to renewal time, the USCIS in the states denies them. They issue RFE's that start out with basically, "just because you were approved the first time doesn't mean we can readjudicate it now".
At the same time, the L-1B holders who may not be getting the prevailing wage depart the company the first moment they can and apply for an H1B during "cap season".