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Nasscom's response: http://www.livemint.com/Industry/pHkRcTtIoKd8MkTkBNdtSN/Infosys-TCS-accounted-for-only-88-of-total-H1B-visasNass.html http://www.livemint.co

Nasscom's response: http://www.livemint.com/Industry/pHkRcTtIoKd8MkTkBNdtSN/Infosys-TCS-accounted-for-only-88-of-total-H1B-visasNass.html http://www.livemint.com/Industry/pHkRcTtIoKd8MkTkBNdtSN/Info... "Infosys, TCS accounted for only 8.8% of total H1B visas" "All Indian IT companies cumulatively account for less than 20% of the total approved H1B visas although Indian nationals get about 71% of the H1B visas,” Nasscom said. It added that this is a testimony to the high skill levels of India-origin professionals. The annual number of Indian IT specialists working on temporary visas for Indian IT service companies is about 0.009% of the 158-million-member US workforce, it said." I wonder since this data is public, how come different stats are concluded ?

mavelikara 9y ago
A large number of Indians are employed at staffing companies which are not "Indian companies". These come in two flavors: (1) large consulting firms like Cap Gemini, Accenture, IBM Global Service etc. These are American or European competitors of TCS, Infy, Cognizant[1], Wipro. (2) "desi body shops" which are typically run by American-Indian business community. #2 has a long tail - there are lots of firms, and each gets a small number of H-1Bs each year. Also, fraud is much more rampant in this sector [2][3][4]. [1]: Cognizant is HQed in Teaneck, New Jersey. It started as an in-house technology unit of Dun & Bradstreet. [2]: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/couple-pleads-guilty-20-million-visa-fraud-involving-indian-workers https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/couple-pleads-guilty-20... [3]: http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/25/bay-area-tech-executives-indicted-for-h-1b-visa-fraud/ http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/25/bay-area-tech-executiv... [4]: https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/virginia-immigration-attorney-admits-visa-fraud-obstruction-justice https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/virginia-immigration-atto...

mavelikara 9y ago

A large number of Indians are employed at staffing companies which are not "Indian companies". These come in two flavors: (1) large consulting firms like Cap Gemini, Accenture, IBM Global Service etc. These are American or European competitors of TCS, Infy, Cognizant[1], Wipro. (2) "desi body shops" which are typically run by American-Indian business community. #2 has a long tail - there are lots of firms, and each gets a small number of H-1Bs each year. Also, fraud is much more rampant in this sector [2][3][4]. [1]: Cognizant is HQed in Teaneck, New Jersey. It started as an in-house technology unit of Dun & Bradstreet. [2]: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/couple-pleads-guilty-20-million-visa-fraud-involving-indian-workers https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/couple-pleads-guilty-20... [3]: http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/25/bay-area-tech-executives-indicted-for-h-1b-visa-fraud/ http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/25/bay-area-tech-executiv... [4]: https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/virginia-immigration-attorney-admits-visa-fraud-obstruction-justice https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/virginia-immigration-atto...