Indeed, Microsoft has an office in Vancouver for the same purpose. You don't even need to produce anything in that office - after a year there an employee becom

Indeed, Microsoft has an office in Vancouver for the same purpose. You don't even need to produce anything in that office - after a year there an employee becomes eligible for the L-1A/B visa, which is not capped like H-1 and has an additional bonus of having the employee bound to the employer (there is no "transfer" of such a visa so to change the job the employee will have to compete in the H-1 lotto). Not every company can afford a year-long on-boarding process but if you have a pipeline of foreigners coming in it's a robust solution since you can get anybody on any salary and in a bound time.