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US Senators Question Indian Firms Over H-1Bs

Posted by kdawson on from the you-want-more-of-these? dept.

xzvf sends us a link to a BusinessWeek report on the campaign of two US senators to get answers to how H-1B work visas are actually being used. Yesterday Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Richard Durbin (D-IL) sent a letter (PDF) to nine Indian outsourcing firms that, among them, snapped up 30% of the H-1B visas issued last year. The senators want to know, among other things, whether the H-1B program is being used to enable the offshoring of American jobs. "Critics say outsourcing firms, including Infosys Technologies and Wipro, are using the visas to replace US employees with foreign workers, often cycling overseas staff through US training programs before sending them back into jobs at home."

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  1. then "twice nothing is still nothing" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    accurately describes the relationship between your salary and your peers

  2. A letter, how scary by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Funny

    sent a letter (PDF) to nine Indian outsourcing firms...The senators want to know, among other things, whether the H-1B program is being used to enable the offshoring of American jobs.

    If they give an honest answer, I'll pour curry onto my balls, and bite them off for YouTube.

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    Table-ized A.I.
  3. Re:Yes... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    GTFO and go back to your own country. You steal our educational resources, internships and jobs.

    Seriously.

    GTFO.