No, not really. Most of what people actually see are, in fact, H1Bs. I have never encountered an L1 in my 25 years in tech. I've encountered probably thousands of H1Bs.
L1 must already have worked for the same company in another country for at least one year, and are essentially transferring to the U.S. This is what the massive consulting shops like InfoSys do, and to a much smaller degree Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and some accounting firms. Since these people have already worked for the company, they are not as often displacing people when they move here (though, yes, it does happen, and also happens indirectly by outsourcing to InfoSys and laying off your staff...but that's not really different from outsourcing to India but with the people onsite).
Both programs need to be restricted to a cap of something like 1,000 per year, instead of the hundreds of thousands that come in every year in the current programs combined.
No, not really. Most of what people actually see are, in fact, H1Bs. I have never encountered an L1 in my 25 years in tech. I've encountered probably thousands of H1Bs.
L1 must already have worked for the same company in another country for at least one year, and are essentially transferring to the U.S. This is what the massive consulting shops like InfoSys do, and to a much smaller degree Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and some accounting firms. Since these people have already worked for the company, they are not as often displacing people when they move here (though, yes, it does happen, and also happens indirectly by outsourcing to InfoSys and laying off your staff...but that's not really different from outsourcing to India but with the people onsite).
Both programs need to be restricted to a cap of something like 1,000 per year, instead of the hundreds of thousands that come in every year in the current programs combined.