User:STEMLaborPolicy/L-1 visa

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The number of visas rose to 57,700 in 2002.

The worker needs to within the preceding three years, been employed at a company for one year.

The 1990 Immigration Act split the L visa into two categories: L-1A for executives and managers, and L-1B for employees with "specialized knowledge".

The government allows the spouse of an L-1 worker authorization to work freely in the United States. Adults who are on the L-2 visa therefore have no work restrictions.

One L-1 visa can include multiple workers.

In 2001, there were 329,000 workers on L-1 visas.

The increase in L-1 visas is because the H-1B visa increased in scrutiny.

Intel have American employees train L-1 workers to staff the company's other headquarters. The company says layoffs do not result in layoffs. Texas Instruments brings in electrical engineers on the L-1 visa.

Semiconductor firms used the L-1 visa to bring electrical engineers into the U.S.

In 2004, Congresswoman Rosa Delauro introduced HR 2702, to limit L-1 visas to 35,000 a year.

Indian outsourcing firms such as Tata, Infosys, and others bring in workers to staff American companies using the L-1 visa. (Congress).

Impact

 * The L-1 visa enabled offshoring of U.S. jobs.
 * American multinationals do not take responsibility for their worker replacement because the visa is issued with the outsourcing firm.