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Why Immigration Strategies Important For Hiring By US Corporation?

Author: Alexis Watson
by Alexis Watson
Posted: Jul 01, 2017

US corporations have been in a hunt to capture to immigrant workforce because of low cost and better talent. In fact core of US economic development revolves around immigrant. Today immigrant contributes largely to the startup ecosystem in the country. But looking at the complexity around US immigrant law hiring a foreign talent is still a challenge for lot of corporation. With the new government in force which is strictly against immigration the challenges for US corporations have increased a lot.

As per US immigration guidelines there are different levels and categories for employment based visa. The categorization is made in a order to look at the specific requirements. Employment based visa for USA are primarily temporary in nature. The most common of them is H1B. Af H1B employment visa is meant primarily for hiring people with specialized skill sets. In fact for all forms of Employment based visas, the corporation first need to shows its effort towards hiring a similar talent in their own country and then they can move towards hiring people from outside. This complex phenomenon around the immigration regulation makes HR manager in US corporation to think about immigration strategies in first hand before determining a strategy to hire a foreign talent.

Immigration strategy around hiring foreign workforce is based upon the work that one is looking at getting done from the person who is to be immigrated. The purpose of immigration should be very clear before even applying any specific visa category.If the purpose is not defined well in advance chances of rejection is very high.The different category for Employment Based Visa For USA are :

  1. H1B, meant primarily for hiring technical and managerial talent for certain position which requires specific technical know how. The visa is generally issued initially for a period of 3 years
  2. H-2A, this type employment visa is meant for immigrants from certain specific country. Applicable for immigrating agricultural labour force from these countries. In fact there is no specific on the number of visa which would be issued under this category.
  3. H-2B, under this type employment visa category non agricultural workers can be immigrated The maximum period for which this visa is issued is for 3 years and the initial visa is issued for 1 year only.
  4. L1A & L2B visa, this is a special category of employment based visa category for US.. US corporation looking at transferring existing employees working with the company in any of its subsidiary, branch or affiliates can be through this kind of visa.This is effective for transferring people in executive positions.

Looking at this complexity, HR manager of US corporations have to be always on their toes to stay compliant with the changes in the employment visa regulations or generally looking at hiring best Immigration Lawyer New York or attorney to help them in their process

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I am Immigration Lawyer in New York, US.provides services in various field of Immigration laws, Civil laws, Criminal laws, Family law, Consumer cases, Property related matters, Matrimonial related matters &drafting and vetting of various agreements

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