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Originally Posted by miami_fan
I am only talking about legal immigration which includes all of the categories including the temporary visas. H-1B visas generally represent the only practical way for high-skilled foreign nationals, including international students, to work long-term in the United States and be given the opportunity to become employment-based immigrants and U.S. citizens.
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Okay, I understand your reasoning but disagree. I do not consider H1-B as "immigration" (source: me, I went through the process).
You can adjust your status from H1-B to (something leading to a green card) but H1-B in itself, is not an immigration visa. Using your logic, a student F-1 visa, although not an immigration visa, can lead to a H1-B, and then a green card. Therefore, an F-1 visa is an immigration visa? (It clearly is not). There are probably other non-immigration visa examples.
To be clear, I'm okay talking about (1) legal and (3) legal non-immigrant only, and in my mind they are 2 very different things. Just wanted to establish that baseline because I was NOT talking about (3) legal non-immigrant and your H1-B conversation threw me for a loop.