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Look who is hiring and investing in USA: Indian outsourcers
December 21, 2009

Buried among the headlines of job losses and jobs being outsourced overseas over the past few years, you might be surprised to hear who has been hiring or planning to hire or invest money in the USA – Indian outsourcers. In fact: Read more

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The sinking H-1B visa program: Will innovation need to be outsourced?
November 10, 2009

Over the past year, the deteriorating US economy combined with anti-immigration politics has hit the H-1B visa program – a critical source of talent and innovation for both Silicon Valley and Wall Street alike. In fact, the Wall Street Journal recently reported that the program has plenty of spaces left to be filled as only 46,700 petitions have been filed as of September 25. In sharp contrast, it took only one day to fill up all 65,000 slots for 2009 – just before the recession began to bite. The Wall Street Journal also noted that in 2008, 44% of approved petitions were for foreigners who work as systems analysts or programmers while the second largest category consisted of professionals who work in universities. Furthermore, it was also noted that Indians accounted for approximately half of all H-1B visa holders. Read more

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Tough laws for foreign IT professionals
October 30, 2009

After US, it is UK putting barrier in place against IT workers. UK’s home secretary Alan Johnson has announced that from next year onwards, a UK employer would have to announce all jobs to British workers in Jobcentre Plus for four running weeks (Up from two)- before these can be thrown open to workers from other nationalities. Read more

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Does the new H-1B hiring rule for TARP Recipients help US workers?
February 10, 2009

On Feb 6th 2009, US Senate approved a bill that restricts on US companies hiring H-1B visa holders that receives federal Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) fund. I am not sure how much it is going to help US workers, the restrictions prohibits TARP recipients hiring H-1B visa holders directly. Still they can hire outsource vendor’s employees who has H-1B visas to work in their projects in US. Also the bill does not restrict TARP recipients sending work to offshore locations.

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