Chart: L-1 nonimmigrants who adjusted to legal permanent resident (LPR) status through employment-based immigrant preference categories, 2007–2013

Table 7

L-1 nonimmigrants who adjusted to legal permanent resident (LPR) status through employment-based immigrant preference categories, 2007–2013

L-1 subclassification	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	Total
L-1 (subclassification unspecified)	1,469	1,469	1,469	1,713	1,096	1,537	1,654	10,407
L-1A	6,310	6,310	6,310	6,521	4,272	6,752	6,907	43,382
L-1B	–	–	817	603	825	962	1,035	4242
Total								58,031

Notes: Data shown for 2007–2009 are authors’ estimates, arrived at by taking the average number of L-1A’s, L-1B’s, and L-1’s with an unspecified subclassification who adjusted to LPR status between 2010 and 2014 (from unpublished USCIS data provided by Lazaro Zamora at the Bipartisan Policy Center). All references to a particular year should be understood to mean the U.S. government’s fiscal year (October 1–September 30).

Source: Data acquired from USCIS via a FOIA request and published in part in Zamora 2016; data by L-1 subclassification are unpublished

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