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Baobab

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3. I am sorry.. maybe you are confused, L-1 are the trade deal visas.. Not H1-B
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 09:22 PM
Mar 2016

L-1 etc, subcontractors, no quotas. H1-B are often some fairly high percentage of a "prevailing wage" - not part of a treaty so the US can set quotas. there is no requirement we recognize foreign licenses or not have necessity tests or limit domestic regulation to not more burdensome than necessary to ensure the quality of the service

With GATS there is.

If we told some huge multinational company they could only have 65,000 workers here, would that be giving them all the rights of one of our own companies? No.

in return we get to go there and have 65,000 of whatever workers we can find that we want, so they get it too. American companies want that, badly.

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