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Trump Threats On H-1B Visas Scaring India Outsources


India's IT outsourcers have discovered Americans.

On Thursday, Wipro announced that U.S. citizens now account for more than half of its U.S. workforce. They've hired over 1,600 employees by attracting and nurturing local talent instead of resorting to the now infamous H-1B.

All of a sudden, the biggest Indian outsourcing firms have found U.S. citizen software engineers able to do the same job that the roughly 40,000 Indians they bring in annually on H-1B visas can do. The threat of legal and immigration authorities pressuring the likes of Infosys and other outsourcing powerhouses is enough to force them to find talent coming out of American colleges and universities instead of importing engineers that do not necessarily have the niche specialty for which the visa was intended.

In the race to import the "best and the brightest", Infosys has hit Trump's virtual wall. No other Indian company takes its lumps like these guys on the H-1B. In May, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced a $1 million settlement with Infy for failing to properly compensate hundreds of workers, pay applicable taxes and for abusing immigrant visa rules for their foreign hires in New York State. They found that Infy was using a different type of visa, the B-1, to bring in temporary workers. The B-1 does not have the same salary requirements as the H1-B, allowing Infy to pay below market rate, the Attorney General office ruled.

“We will not permit companies to violate our laws in order to undercut New York workers” Schneiderman said in a press release.

Link: It's about time


Posted: 06/29/2017 at 07:27AM



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