Posts Tagged ‘Guidance’

Organisations warn US of employers substituting L-1 visa for H-1B

This week the US began accepting applications for the popular H-1B visa program. While the H-1B visa has been a popular visa among IT workers for a long time, critics are saying that the L-1 visa is now being used improperly in place of the H-1B visa.

The L-1 visa is used for intra-company transfers of employees from foreign offices to US offices.

The labor union AFL-CIO and the IEEE-USA professional organisation sent letters to Washington DC this week warning the government against undermining US worker protections in the L-1 visa by accepting changes recommended by more than 60 firms and organizations.

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Importance of an immigration lawyer

Immigration is actually moving of a person from one country to other settling temporarily or permanently. But here the immigrant is used for the permanent resider and not the casual visitor. The migration is done due to many reasons like economic reasons, national reasons etc. Gaining permanent residency i.e. Green Card is based on the various types of opportunities like employment opportunities and that to require passing through many of the steps i.e. it is a multi step process. In order to obtain a Green Card one need to choose the path of USCIS under lawful permanent residency.

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