[bilekas]

> In my experience, the special skills that many foreigners tend to have that many Americans do not is the ability to tolerate absolute and utter bullshit. I'm not kidding.

This actually made me giggle a little bit and while I have seen this, what I've seen more of is that a company hiring internally has offshore employees who have a vast amount of company specific info and experience that the company simply can't hire for. That only applies to internal transfers of course but it's what I see the most of.

[p_l]

Internal transfers that have such knowledge don't go on H-1B though, but L-1B

[bilekas]

Ah okay, I haven't done the process myself so mixed it up! Good to know though !

[p_l]

It's how big tech with multinational offices manages to handle lack of enough H-1B, among other things.

You hire someone in local office for a year, then arrange L-1B visa which has no numerical issuance limits - but requires at least one year of previous employment with the company sponsoring the visa.

There's also L-1A which IIRC doesn't require time in company but is limited only to upper management in practice.

[angott]

L-1A also requires the employee to have worked at the foreign subsidiary of the US company for at least 12 consecutive months.