»»H-1B Visa Now Just a Critical Tool for Indian Outsourcing Vendors
The H-1B visa law, championed as a way to attract the world’s best and brightest to America to study and work, allows skilled, specialized foreigners to work in America for up to six years and then pursue permanent residency.
The International Herald Tribune points out how the H-1B visa is now being put to a starkly different use.
The newspapers says:
“It is now a critical tool for Indian outsourcing vendors to gain expertise and win contracts from Western companies to transfer critical operations to places like Bangalore.” […]
According to a tabulation of U.S. Labor Department statistics, eight of the 10 largest H-1B applicants last year were outsourcing firms with major operations in India.
The newspapers explains:
“To deliver the solutions from a remote environment, Indian outsourcing vendors need a certain number of people being with a customer, understanding his needs and collecting the requirements.[…] They simlpy need a link between the people who are doing coding in India and the client”.
Indian outsourcing vendor Infosys had 6,800 U.S. employees on H-1Bs as of last September. In 1998, the figure was 231.
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