Legal Question in Immigration Law in New York

If your H1b is approved starting from October 1, 2009, you will be in H-1B status after that date and when you start working for the petitioning employer. You cannot hold two non-immigrant statuses at the same time. If traveling internationally and returning to USA, you cannot return on L1 visa, but will have to obtain a H1B visa at US consulate abroad.

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I would need more information regarding your particular case before I can comment on it properly.

However, what I can say is that if you are working or about to start working with the corporation that sponsored you for the H1B visa (for that is what I am assuming you have received the H1B visa to do) then the H1B visa trumps the L1B.

Patricia Martin-Gibbons