If your company is using H-1B visa workers, you may get a surprise from the government. Piece of advice for your manager: It’s voluntary, but the surprise could intimidate. (more…)
Archive for the ‘H-1B’ Category
H-1B Visa Companies Getting Unannounced Visits by Feds
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009World in Numbers: Top H1B Sponsors 2008
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009- Infosys Technologies Limited 4559
- Wipro Limited 2678
- Satyam Computer Services Limited 1917
- Tata Consultancy Services Limited 1539
- Microsoft Corp 1037
- Accenture Llp 731
- Cognizant Tech Solutions Us Corp 467
- Cisco Systems Inc 422
- Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited 403
- IBM India Private Limited 381
- Intel Corp 351
- Ernst & Young Llp 321
- Patni Americas Inc 296
- Terra Infotech Inc 281
- Qualcomm Incorporated 255
- Mphasis Corporation 251
- Kpmg Llp 245
- Prince Georges County Public Schs 239
- Baltimore City Public Sch System 229
- Deloitte Consulting Llp 218
- Goldman Sachs & Co 211
- Everest Business Solutions Inc 208
- Verinon Technology Solutions Ltd 208
- Google Inc 207
- East Baton Rouge Parish School Sys 205
Grant 2 million visas to Indians, Chinese and Koreans
Thursday, February 12th, 2009By Thomas L. Friedman
BANGALORE, India — Leave it to a brainy Indian to come up with the cheapest and surest way to stimulate our economy: immigration.
“All you need to do is grant visas to 2 million Indians, Chinese and Koreans,” said Shekhar Gupta, editor of The Indian Express newspaper. “We will buy up all the subprime homes. We will work 18 hours a day to pay for them. We will immediately improve your savings rate — no Indian bank today has more than 2 percent nonperforming loans, because not paying your mortgage is considered shameful here. And we will start new companies to create our own jobs and jobs for more Americans.” (more…)
Quote Unquote:H-1B: Whose loss it it anyway?
Monday, February 9th, 2009
”The people whom you’re hiring from India and from, you know, China and from — the top universities, they’re the smart lot, they’re not really substitutes for guys who can’t get jobs,” - Economist Jagdish Bhagwati