Indian IT outsourcing giant Wipro is one of the top five users of the H1-B immigrant worker visa. Photographer: Namas Bhojani/Bloomberg
India’s major IT outsourcers have little to worry about during this year’s lottery for the H1-B immigrant worker visa, the country’s officials told reporters after a recent trip to Washington. Next year, however, will be a different story.
Indian info-tech firms like Infosys, Wipro, HCL Technologies, Tech Mahindra and Tata Consultancy Services are largely dependent on the constant flow of software engineers from India, mostly under 35 year old tech workers looking for a shot at life in the U.S. for three years. Some in the Indian lobbying community in Washington call the H1-B the “most toxic” visa on Capitol Hill. The visa is often despised by American software engineers who say they are being replaced by younger, foreign workers willing to work for less. Some 70% of the 85,000 H1-B visas issued annually go to Indians, and more than half of them are working for the IT outsourcers, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services which manages the visa petitions.
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