Tourist visas, Business visas, temporary work visas

There are 55m visas, majority of which are non immigrant visas.

What does non-immigrant actually mean? The h1b/l1b that is hugely popular in tech are both legally defined as “non-immigrant” visas, yet both include very widely used legal paths to permanent residency and citizenship for the holders - immigration.

My point being, this distinction may not mean what it might appear with a layman’s or dictionary based understanding of the phrase “non-immigrant visa”.

	▲	hdgvhicv 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I (journalists), P (sports), L (internal company moves), F (students) I know a few people with two visas - an I visa for work and a B1 for tourism 75% of non immigrant visas are normal tourist/business visa you need to go to a trade show in vegas or go to Disneyland. The H category was under 10% of non immigrant visas.