This one group gets 70 percent of high-skilled foreign worker visas

Washington Post ^ | 04/04/2017 | Tracy jan

[central_va]

The only way to fix it is to kill it. The USA graduates more STEM grads then there are jobs.

Please, If you don't work in IT then don't comment on this story.

[indthkr]

Note the strong inverse correlation with each countries mean labor price.

Outliers, such as Pakistan, have the inconvenient characteristic of being a hotbed of Islamic terrorism.

I don't see Germany on the list anywhere.....

[RideForever]

What’s missing is who are the employers? Surprisingly, a good percentage work at Federal and state jobs, especially at universities. That’s where I would start pruning. And it might be able to be done with FOIA requests.

[AlmaKing]

These are the employers:

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Search_Visa_Sponsor.aspx

Visa Rank Employer H1B Visa (2014-2016)

(Denied, Withdrawn/Total) Green Card (2014-2016)

(Denied, Withdrawn/Total)

1 1 Infosys Limited 57/82506 188/2380
2 2 Tata Consultancy Services Limited 270/43794 1/9
3 3 Wipro Limited 468/31173 143/987
4 4 IBM Corporation 4821/24359 81/744
5 5 Accenture Llp 143/24593 14/232
6 6 Deloitte Consulting Llp 277/22271 12/1291
7 7 Cognizant Technology Solutions U.S. Corporation 964/11250 245/11637
8 8 Microsoft Corporation 169/13354 233/7147
9 9 Capgemini U.S. Llc 502/19700 27/376
10 10 Tech Mahindra (Americas), Inc. 500/19258 32/334
11 11 Hcl America, Inc. 55/15791 39/1125
12 12 Google Inc. 417/12010 111/4207
13 13 Ernst & Young U.S. Llp 275/12767 31/1065
14 14 Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited 337/10977 20/306
15 15 Intel Corporation 548/5847 652/5196
16 16 Igate Technologies Inc. 353/9875 27/1015
17 17 Amazon Corporate Llc 353/6395 70/3076
18 18 Ust Global Inc. 433/8562 4/189
19 19 Apple Inc. 131/4639 48/2096
20 20 Jpmorgan Chase & Co. 158/4922 91/861
21 21 Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. 265/4072 43/1678
22 22 Deloitte & Touche Llp 53/4725 10/462
23 23 Oracle America, Inc. 49/2999 102/1876
24 24 Capgemini Financial Services Usa Inc 109/3719 58/772
25 25 Facebook, Inc. 96/2959 54/1407
26 26 Ntt Data, Inc. 41/3942 36/350
27 27 Pricewaterhousecoopers, Llp 102/3578 20/513
28 28 Hexaware Technologies, Inc. 138/3770 10/282
29 29 Cisco Systems, Inc. 41/1717 70/2176
30 30 L&T Technology Services Limited 364/3741 8/79
31 31 Mastech, Inc., A Mastech Holdings, Inc. Company 43/3013 20/507
32 32 Goldman, Sachs & Co. 176/2924 89/534
33 33 Kpmg Llp 64/3072 9/355
34 34 Cummins Inc. 404/2684 20/630
35 35 Fujitsu America, Inc. 78/2998 15/281
36 36 Mindtree Limited 22/3052 8/179
37 37 Randstad Technologies, Lp 80/2494 43/681
38 38 V-Soft Consulting Group, Inc 78/2758 23/414
39 38 Emc Corporation 85/2589 38/583
40 40 Mphasis Corporation 38/2746 11/393
41 41 Yahoo! Inc. 74/1875 46/1148
42 42 Citibank, N.A. 65/2663 13/308
43 43 Bank Of America N.A. 39/2475 13/472
44 44 Syntel Consulting Inc. 34/2921 -
45 45 Ebay Inc. 69/2192 22/679
46 46 Wal-Mart Associates, Inc. 109/2367 19/484
47 47 Hcl Global Systems Inc 61/2390 28/449
48 48 Htc Global Services, Inc. 0/2510 20/296
49 49 Compunnel Software Group, Inc. 19/2380 46/393
50 50 Salesforce.Com, Inc. 54/1999 34/733

[AlmaKing]

The organizations using H1Bs are in every industry. If you use the search engine I list above and punch out a list of 1000 companies, you will see semi companies, financials, universities, NIH, HHS, and more.

These are not just IT jobs being filled by H1Bs. They are engineering positions, medical positions, financial positions, etc.

[AlmaKing]

This is an example of a semi company I used to work for, Texas Instruments.

The point here is that the large majority of jobs going to foreigners under the H1B program in a semi company are engineering jobs, not IT.

Texas Instruments Incorporated has filed 770 labor condition applications for H1B visa and 324 labor certifications for green card from fiscal year 2014 to 2016. Texas Instruments was ranked 131 among all visa sponsors. Please note that 16 LCA for H1B Visa and 14 LC for green card have been denied or withdrawn during the same period.

Visa Job Locations: Dallas,TX(860), Santa Clara,CA(156), Tucson,AZ(118), Stafford,TX(38), Plano,TX(37)

H1B Visa Jobs:

Analog Design Engineer(250); Applications Engineer(157); Digital Design Engineer(145); Electrical Design Engineer(138); Product Engineer(125);

Green Card Jobs:

Electronics Engineers, Except Computer(357); Software Developers, Systems Software(61); Architectural and Engineering Managers(43); Sales Engineers(16); Marketing Managers(13);

[Veto!]

Old friend of mine, great patriot and war hero, left tens of millions to college of engineering at his alma mater when he died, with the stipulation that funds would be used ONLY for American citizens. He was tired of Americans paying to educate foreigners who would only return to their countries to compete with us.

I rather doubt that his wishes are being carried out. No one in his family has the sense to ride herd on the school.

[Theo]

There are plenty of American workers who can do STEM stuff. Plenty.

The primary reason companies use the H1B program is *not* because of a lack of skilled American labor. It’s to save money. Which is fine, I suppose — companies should try to save money — but to say that there’s a lack of skilled STEM labor ... is just silly.

[oldvirginian]

“The organizations using H1Bs are in every industry.”

Around 8-10 years ago I read that the Schneider trucking company (the Orange trucks) had signed an agreement with an Indian company to bring in several thousand drivers from India.

IIRC they suspended the agreement with less than 500 actually brought over.
Too many people were raising too much hell over it.
Can you imagine the wild men of Mumbai turned loose on US highways?
Me neither.

I’d like to know if they reinstated that program.

[dhs12345]

I remember talking with an engineer and he explained to mw that at one point they considered communism but realized that it was a failing system when the USSR fell.

[american colleen]

Oh but I have been in IT since 1993.

You didn’t really read my comment. Plus I work for one of the biggest IT companies in the world.

H1B is totally abused but my feeling is the cat is out of the bag already ... curb it (and I think it should be curbed if not stopped until it is determined that an American cannot fill the position) and the companies will just create the job in a foreign country. Where I am, every time an American quits, they are replaced with a req in India or in the Philippines (two Indians to one American and maybe three Filipinos to one American).

[american colleen]

Oh you are absolutely correct!

I work with this every day and it is maddening. Besides the language barrier you have the culture barrier. Also spaghetti code that is now so far imbedded everywhere you can’t really undo it ... all by design IMO.

It’s all about short term ‘savings’ but long term, I think H1B and offshoring costs are much higher. Everything takes much longer to resolve.

[Theo]

“... spaghetti code ...”

That’s exactly what I was thinking of, to be honest. It seems to be a cultural thing. Sounds racist to say that, but that’s been my experience.

I completely agree with your assessment.