FWD.us Wants More H-1B Visas, But 50% Go To Offshore Firms

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday April 1, 2014 @09:10PM from the sources-say-50%-is-nearly-half dept.

theodp writes: "On the day the U.S. began accepting H-1B visa applications for FY2015, Mark Zuckerberg's FWD.us PAC stepped up its lobbying efforts for more tech visas even as ComputerWorld reported that the major share of H-1B visas go to offshore outsourcing firms that use visa holders to displace U.S. workers. 'The two largest H-1B users,' notes ComputerWorld, 'are Indian-based, Infosys, with 6,298 visas, and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), with 6,258.' ComputerWorld adds that food and agricultural company Cargill is outsourcing IT jobs to TCS, including 300 in Minnesota, the home of Sen. Amy Klobuchar, sponsor of the I-Squared Act of 2013, which would allow H-1B visa caps to rise to 300,000 annually."

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I don't *want* US workers by Anonymous Coward · 2014-04-01 23:02 · Score: 0, Troll

I donate a LOT of money to FWD.us to try to get the H1-B limits increased. Why? Because while my company does do business in the US, I despise US workers - who are generally a bunch of self-important, entitled brats who think they are God's gift to development. The worst part? They are simply lazy. My God are Americans lazy. Show up at 8:45... leave at 4:15... hour and half lunch.. sitting around surfing the Internet all day while finding a few minutes here and there to do some work in between facebook posts.
I don't have these problems at our Bangalore design center. I do bring a lot of people over on L-1 visas, but we must have H1-B limits increased, or removed altogether, so we can engage talented resources already living in the US. It's inconvenient to hire someone in India for placement in the US on an L-1 since they have to work for a year before they are eligible.