You would think, but I have been researching the variety of visas available to folk in the tech industry. Theoretically, the L1 [1] is supposed to fill the rol

You would think, but I have been researching the variety of visas available to folk in the tech industry. Theoretically, the L1 [1] is supposed to fill the role for business trips based on partnerships and relationships between companies. But for whatever weird reason the client-consultant relationship is not valid for an L1, but only parent-child companies, headquarter-branch or affiliates. In fact, in light of me not getting a H1B, yet have a company registered in the US, I am pretty sure I'll just go register a company in my home-country as an affiliate of my company here and come back on an L1 visa. This is all very obsolete and convoluted, and is just making people skip ropes and jump hoops for no good reason. [1] http://www.immihelp.com/l1-visa/l1-visa-h1b-visa-comparison.html http://www.immihelp.com/l1-visa/l1-visa-h1b-visa-comparison....