Indian Firms Questioned On H-1bs

[Dubh Aingeal]

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.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

To simplify a bit for people not wanting to read though all that:

The idea here is that these types of visas are being used to bring people over.. train them.. then send them back to their country of origin to work for inda. Instead of using these visas to bring workers/experts to the US that we are in short supply of as was intended."

If that is the reality is pretty shitty.

But, the larger concept of globalisation of the workforce is inevitable. Protectionism/Isolationism has been , and will continue to be more and more untenable. Fortunately or unfortunately depending on perspective.