What is the number of L1 visas that companies like Google and Facebook help get per year?
There is an official doc by USCIS (linked below) that shows total numbers of approved L-1 visas petitions by employer for fiscal year 2018. Here is what it shows for some famous companies: AMAZON FULFILLMENT SVCS INC: 345 (AMAZON CORPORATE: 37) (AMAZON WEB SERVICES INC: 20) (AMAZON DIGITAL SERVICES INC: "D") (AMAZON COM DEDC LLC: "D") (AMAZON COM SVCS INC F/K/A AMAZON C: "D") (AMAZON COM INC: "D") SALESFORCE COM INC: 114 APPLE INC: 114 (glr061's note: they had 132,000 Full-Time Employees globally as of Dec 2018) GOOGLE INC: 76 (glr061: 98,771 FTEs globally @ Dec 2018) MICROSOFT CORP: 43 (glr061: ~144,000 FTEs globally @ June 2019) FACEBOOK INC: "D" (glr061: 35,587 FTEs globally @ Dec 2018) Here is an extract from that doc: "Per USCIS best practices, units of less than 10 are aggregated so as to limit the possibility of the deanonymization of data. "D" represents data withheld to protect privacy." I am not sure if that means that "D" stands for "less than 10" or companies can withhold the data to protect their own privacy, but I find it very hard to believe that the number for Facebook is lower than 10. I am wondering, for example, if Facebook and Google just like Amazon used many other legal entities to apply for L-1 visas and this USCIS doc doesn't show them all. Do you have any insight to suggest that these numbers could be reasonable or unreasonable? Link: https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Reports%20and%20Studies/Immigration%20Forms%20Data/BAHA/L1_FY18_Approved_Petitions_021919.pdf #l1 #immigration #facebook #google #microsoft #amazon #salesforce #h1b
Why do you think it’s unreasonable ? You basically claim that you have an employee that his knowledge in the company processes etc are needed in a considerable way and his skills (in general) are some that it would take a considerable time to train a local person for. And the uscis has been tougher and tougher in issuing those visas
Pretty reasonable For amazon fulfillment the number is higher as you do a lot of learning on different country launches or doing cross- border stuff and those employees are very needed in HQ
Seriously, only 37. Seems low, am I missing something?
I just talked to a Global Mobility specialist who worked at Google for many years and he said the number of L1s he has seen is much much higher than 76 per year.
This is approved petitions per year Usually granted for 3-5 years (L1b can be up to 5 years , l1a to 7 if I recall) So you can prob multiply by 3-4 to get guesstimate if the number of l1 currently employed by those companies (To account for renewals, short term and full term, I would bet also a lot of them move to green card at some point) For companies who don’t have blanket petition - it’s a pin in the ass to get and for employees it means no Changing jobs till you get your green card going