L Visas: Losing Jobs Through Laissez-faire Policies? : Hearing Before the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, February 4, 2004 |
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Page 28 - ... who, immediately preceding the time of his application for admission into the United States, has been employed continuously for one year by a firm or corporation or other legal entity or an affiliate or subsidiary thereof and who seeks to enter the United States temporarily in order to continue to render his services to the same employer or a subsidiary or affiliate thereof in a capacity that is managerial, executive, or involves specialized knowledge...
Page 16 - IT industry concern including information security, taxes and finance policy, digital intellectual property protection, telecommunications competition, workforce and education, immigration, online privacy and consumer protection, government IT procurement, human resources and e-commerce policy. ITAA members range from the smallest IT start-ups to industry leaders in the Internet, software, IT services, ASP, digital content, systems integration, telecommunications, and enterprise solution fields.
Page 29 - ... (I) the actual wage level paid by the employer to all other individuals with similar experience and qualifications for the specific employment in question...
Page 2 - Under section 101(a)(15)(L) of the Act. an alien who within the preceding three years has been employed abroad for one continuous year by a qualifying organization may be admitted temporarily to the United States to be employed by a parent, branch, affiliate, or subsidiary of that employer in a managerial or executive capacity, or in a position requiring specialized knowledge. An alien transferred to the United States under this nonimmigrant classification is referred to as an intracompany transferee...
Page 28 - Intracompany transferee means an alien who, within three years preceding the time of his or her application for admission into the United States, has been employed abroad continuously for one year by a firm or corporation or other legal entity or parent, branch, affiliate, or subsidiary thereof, and who seeks to enter the United States temporarily in order to...
Page 68 - The L-lB visa was established to allow multinational companies to bring persons with specialized knowledge of the petitioning company's products, procedures and processes to the US to work for a related US company. The specialized knowledge is supposed to be an advanced level of skill that does not involve skills readily available in the US labor market. The foreign IT workers that have been placed at some client sites are not utilizing any specialized knowledge.
Page 27 - Congress' development of an overarching national policy regarding the overall number of foreign guest workers that are permitted in the US In addition, consideration should be given to placing a limit on the total number of guest workers that any single employer can hire under all categories of guest worker programs. DURATION...
Page 49 - But what's the breakdown of that money? $24,000 of that is non-taxable living expenses for working "out of town". That leaves just $12,000 of real salary paid to them in equivalent Indian rupees. $12,000 — close to the US minimum wage.
Page 27 - DC a fundamental principle of immigration law that no professional worker in this country should ever have to live in fear of losing their livelihoods because federal law allowed a foreign guest worker to come here and take it away from them.
Page 17 - ... foreign companies are able to bring key personnel to their American operations, US comAnti-outsourcing bills are now pending in a dozen legislatures, and up to 20 could consider such measures before the legislative season ends. — Justin Marks. Analyst, National Conference of State Legislatures panies will be put at a competitive disadvantage and foreign companies will be unlikely to establish or expand their presence in our country,