Archive for the ‘H-1B’ Category

H-1B Visa Companies Getting Unannounced Visits by Feds

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

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…)

World in Numbers: Top H1B Sponsors 2008

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
  1. Infosys Technologies Limited  4559 
  2. Wipro Limited  2678 
  3. Satyam Computer Services Limited  1917 
  4. Tata Consultancy Services Limited  1539 
  5. Microsoft Corp  1037 
  6. Accenture Llp  731 
  7. Cognizant Tech Solutions Us Corp  467 
  8. Cisco Systems Inc  422 
  9. Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited  403 
  10. IBM India Private Limited  381 
  11. Intel Corp  351 
  12. Ernst & Young Llp  321 
  13. Patni Americas Inc  296 
  14. Terra Infotech Inc  281 
  15. Qualcomm Incorporated  255 
  16. Mphasis Corporation  251 
  17. Kpmg Llp  245 
  18. Prince Georges County Public Schs  239 
  19. Baltimore City Public Sch System  229 
  20. Deloitte Consulting Llp  218 
  21. Goldman Sachs & Co  211 
  22. Everest Business Solutions Inc  208 
  23. Verinon Technology Solutions Ltd  208 
  24. Google Inc  207
  25. East Baton Rouge Parish School Sys 205

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Grant 2 million visas to Indians, Chinese and Koreans

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

By 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

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 ”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