Indian IT firms bag big chunk of H1B visas - More then 10,000 H-1B Visas last year.......

[1776Forever]

Indian IT firms bag big chunk of H1B visas


Press Trust of India
Lalit K Jha
Washington, Feb 24 (PTI)

http://www.ptinews.com/pti%5Cptisite.nsf/0/C254A298A469615F65257567003170BE?OpenDocument

Top Indian IT companies account for the largest chunk of the H-1B work visas; which is primarily meant for tech professionals, a latest report has said.

Just four Indian companies alone last year accounted for more than 10,000 H-1B visas issued by the US, according to the latest data released by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for the year ending September 2008.

Indian IT giant Infosys tops the list of companies which were issued H-1B visas. It received as many as 4559 visas. Infosys is followed by Wipro Limited 2,678 and the maligned Satyam with 1,917 H-1B visas. The Tata Consultancy Service (TCS) got 1,539 H-1B visa.

Microsoft is the only non-Indian and also the only American company which got more than a 1000 H-IB visas issued. It received 1,037 visas in the year 2008, a little higher than the previous year. It is ranked fifth in the list of companies, which were issued H-1B visas last year.

Cognizant (467) and Larsen and Tourbo (403) are the other two Indian companies to have figured in the top 10 of this list. IBM India too figures in top 10 with 381 visas. Among other US companies, Google got 248 visas and Lehman Brother, which became bankrupt last year had received 130 visas.

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What do we US workers have to do - Start our own A-1B visa program? How can we buy goods without jobs? Buhler - Anyone?


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[ixion]

1. flooding the market with cheap labor, and taking jobs from people here in the US

that's just not right, IMO.

[MannyGoldstein]

2. The Clintons Have Served Them Well

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4836695.

Also, I believe that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest contributor to Clinton's foundation.

[1776Forever]

3. Yes you state the truth - I didn't know about the Gates link though - not surprised.

Even though I was one of the President Clinton's biggest supporters in the 90's after looking over what really happened then makes me shake my head in wonderment - i.e. NAFTA, Telecommunications Act of 1996 stand out among the most questionable. Make one wonder just on whose side they (Clinton's) are on.

[MannyGoldstein]

4. And Let's Not Forget Almost-Free-Trade With China

And the first use of torture as US policy (extraordinary rendition).

(I'm in a surly mood this AM!)

[OhioChick]

5. Ah yes.....Our Senator from Punjab. n/t