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Non-American here. Do H1B workers need to live in the US to work, or they can work remotely from their country?
by jaimex2 3y ago
Non-American here.
Do H1B workers need to live in the US to work, or they can work remotely from their country?
- renewiltord 3y agoThey won't file an H-1B for people working from outside the country. It's much faster to just employ you in one of the other places they have a presence. And if they need you to visit, there's an L-1 and related class.
- PartiallyTyped 3y agoYou must live in the US to work there. There are worse stuff than H1B, eg L1B. H1B has the req that you must find another sponsor within 60 days of leaving a company, but you can quit just fine otherwise. L1B means you can only work for the sponsor company and nobody else and as soon as you get fired you are gone.
- nojvek 3y agoHave to be on the US for the visa to be valid. They can go for holidays for a short period.
- bluedino 3y agoYou don't need a Visa if you don't live in the US
- dboreham 3y agoYou have this backwards: the visa is required only to live in the US for the purposes of working. If you aren't living in the US, you can work as much as you like for a US company, provided they and you comply with laws in your country. Typically this requires them to set up a subsidiary in your country, or contract with a local company that you become an employee of.
- arlort 3y agoWhich is why this thread seems surreal, if it were about cost cutting they wouldn't bring people to the US in the first place