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The L-1B visa (for inter-company transfers) is meant for employees with specialized knowledge. Being a computer programmer should not qualify. USCIS has begun to enforce the laws in recent years, so I wouldn't count on slipping through the cracks.

For example, here is a blog post about a law firm complaining about the law being enforced:

http://blogs.ilw.com/entry.php?5944-To-L1b-or-Not-to-L1B-Dif...

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Being a computer programmer does not disqualify the OP. He'll have to prove that a year of working with Cloudflare for a year has given him specialized knowledge in one or the following areas:

1. Business domain: That OP has learned about the business domain that Cloudflare operates in, and has gained insights and knowledge that will not be present in fresh hires in the US

2. Cloudflare business processes: That OP has mastered one or many Cloudflare business processes which require at least a year of working with the company and cannot be expected from new joiner immediately

3. Proprietary tools knowledge: That OP has mastered one or many proprietary tools used by Cloudflare and that this mastery is a result of working with the tools extensively during OP's one year tenure with the company

tl;dr version - need to have some knowledge (tools, domain knowledge, business process knowledge) that cannot be expected from a fresh joiner.

The author of that blog post has an incentive to make the process seem as difficult and complicated as possible. After all, the more scary it seems, the more likely you'll pay them for assistance.

"Being a computer programmer should not qualify."

Doesn't Microsoft use a L-visa to put people first into Canada and then transfer them to US?

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