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I meant a pathway to immigrate to the United States. Yes, the H-1B is non-immgirant visa. My point was that if you want to immigrate (i.e. get a green card) bas

I meant a pathway to immigrate to the United States. Yes, the H-1B is non-immgirant visa. My point was that if you want to immigrate (i.e. get a green card) based on your skills, the pathway (toward gaining permanent residency) in most cases involves getting an H-1B or L-1 first. Most of these workers strongly desire to immigrate to the Untied States on a permanent basis, and the truly skilled ones (I'm not talking about ones hired by outsourcing giants) work really hard (and usually get paid really well), and contribute significantly to the company (and as such, to the United States as a whole).

maxerickson 12y ago
My mistake on immigrate vs citizenship. It doesn't really change the point that the H-1B was created to be temporary. (And certainly the temporary status factors into the fact that they exist and how many are granted and all of that stuff. FWIW, I think the U.S. immigration policy is a disaster, we should be letting far more people in and looking for ways that we can help to improve the situation in Central America (because presumably that will reduce the most common sort of illegal entry).)