Could this be part of the reason?
Posted on 03/04/2009 9:57:13 AM PST by Fred
There's been a shift in the top 10 companies that submitted applications last year as companies scramble to fill the U.S. government's 85,000 randomly selected petitions.
On April 1, employers will once again race to file H-1B visa petitions, hoping that their applications will be among the 85,000 randomly selected by the U.S. government, allowing the companies to hire foreign workers for fiscal 2010, beginning Oct. 1.
Last year, as was the case in other recent years, Indian outsourcing firms topped the list of employers who received approval to hire H-1B visa workers for temporary jobs in the United States.
Six Indian IT outsourcers were among the top 10 employers getting H-1B visas petitions approved by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for fiscal 2008, according to data analyzed by InformationWeek from the agency.
Those six Indian firms -- Infosys, Wipro, Satyam, Tata Consulting Services, Cognizant, and Larsen & Toubro -- received approval for a total of 11,617 H-1B visas. However, in addition to those Indian firms, U.S.-based IBM's Indian services business -- IBM India Private Ltd. -- ranked No. 10 on the list, having gotten approval for 381 H-1B visas.
Also among the top 10 companies were three other U.S.-based companies: Microsoft, which got approval for 1,037; Accenture, which received approval for 731; and Cisco, which received approval for 422 H-1B visas. In total, the top 10 companies received approval for 14,134 H-1B visas last year.
Nearly 24,700 firms had H-1B visa petitions approved by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, an agency of U.S. Department of Homeland Security, to hire foreign workers in fiscal 2008. The total H-1B visa petitions approved, however, do not reflect the actual number of H-1B visas issued by the U.S. State Department, which further scrutinizes whether an individual is eligible to enter the United States and sometimes rejects the petition.
Also, although IT professionals are among the top beneficiaries of H-1B visas, that visa classification is also used for college professors, doctors, accountants, and architects. In fact, among the top 30 H-1B visa employers last year were accounting firms, including Ernst & Young and KPMG, as well as educational institutions, including the University of Maryland, the University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, and East Baton Rouge Parish School System.
In fiscal 2008, Intel ranked No. 11, with 351 H-1B visas approved. That was a slight drop from fiscal 2007, when Intel ranked 10th with 369 H-1B visas approved. In fiscal 2007, eight Indian firms ranked among the top 10 H-1B visa employers. Some of those companies, including I-Flex, fell further down the list in fiscal 2008.
Continue to pages 2 and 3 of this article for a table of the first 100 employers with the most visas.
GTFOOMC
The government takes our earnings and uses that money to bring foreign workers to fill the jobs that would normally be filled by Americans as we move up in the workforce.
It is a real conspiracy to destroy the American middle-class.
Anyone voting for these massive work visas ought to be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail.I mean it literally.
Eric Holder is correct:Americans are cowards.Americans are afraid to face up to the evil in government and clean house.Americans are more likely to know who's on Dancing with the Stars than who votes for what laws and taxes!
We need to find a way to stop this scourge of insourcing, and find new ways to drive U.S. companies overseas.
Obama's working on it. Shouldn't take more than a year or two.
Could this be part of the reason?
GTFOOMC=Gee Thanks For Outsourcing Of My Career?
I predict there’s a lot of money changing hands under the table between these Indian IT companies and our political “leaders”. Probably all finding its way to offshore accounts.
That is what Bill Gates would like you to believe...
Your cause and effect is backwards. Why go into a field where your are likely to have your job offshored or be replaced by an H1B?
Why are there any Indian Corps in this country placing Indians programmers in US companies????
There purpose is to supply cover for the big tech companies so as to where they do not have the H1Bs on their books...
Good question. Most likely answer is that American companies placing American programmers don't have any.
Is that why people graduating with EE degrees from American universities get paid near the top of the scale?
Not only is it a fact that the number of computer science and engineering degrees issued in the USA since the 80's going down but the number of enrolled college students is going up!
In addition, many of those receiving technical degrees in the US are foreign born.
I work in the industry and got my Electrical Engineering degree in 1987. I'm also a member of IEEE where the H1-B visa issue is debated ad-nauseum.
Meanwhile behold...
See how they’re spinning the job cuts.
No, that's why 20 years down the road they're being laid off in droves in favor of cheaper H-1Bs.
Right. The market is sending signals that EE’s are in great demand, but maybe, just maybe, twenty years down the road a highly-paid EE will be replaced by an EE who is somehow (magically) underpaid in contravention of market economics.
Oddly enough the foreign born parents of US students don't seem to think much of that downside. At the Kumon Center near my house, which specializes in teaching math the correct way versus the public school fad ways, nearly all of the kids I see coming and going are Asian or Indian.
These are the future engineering and computer science students when they get to college.
These parents know the pie is growing and thus there's room for American born engineers (which most of these kids will be) and foreign born technical workers. All fairly well paid when you look at the average salary compared to the mean income in any state.
It's quite simple, if you want more American engineers, you need American schools to teach math and science properly. And then you need to instill in those students a sense of discipline and willingness to take on big education challenges. The parents need to back this up all the way.
How do I know that? That's how this American born guy with grandparents from Ireland succeeded.
And I'm surrounded by Indian computer professionals everyday.
This encompases more than just EE degrees. IT bears the brunt of the H1B fraud.
-PJ
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