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You must note that there is not a peep about all the
people being shuttled now as well as for years and years
by so many many other European and other countries
on all kinds of jobs and visas, etc. It is only recently
that India even got involved in any offshoring activites.
Others have been doing it for years and years. Yet,
not a complaint about all these Europeans !

This is political  baiting of India and India-ns, especially
made for the election year in the US. The climate of
anti-India and anti-Indian hatred has been building
with active participation by hateful journalists for a
long long period of time. Ever since they saw a lot
of India-ns involved in high technology at the same
time as American workers were losing jobs due to
layoffs and the vicious climate of high technology.

High technology cannot be restricted to one category
of people or another. Therefore, these prejudiced
journalists and any rabble-rousing demagogue leaders
(labor leaders, etc.) will eventually end up driving
away all high technology. A  return to
pre-World:War I USA (like third world)
is quite a possibility if this trend continues. That
is precisely why the confusion of war prevails now.
It helps to mask the underlying turmoil.


Your Friend wrote:

> http://in.rediff.com/money/2004/feb/05us1.htm
>
> L1 visa: Infosys, Wipro deny US charge
>
> February 05, 2004 20:40 IST
>
> Infosys and Wipro, the country's two leading software companies, on
> Thursday denied the allegation that they have been abusing the United
> States' L-1 visa regulations.
>
> "Infosys fully complies with visa statutes and regulations in letter
> and in spirit. Infosys adheres to this regulation and does not
> differentiate between H1-B and L-1 pay scales, although not legally
> mandated," Infosys CEO and managing director Nandan M Nilekani said in
> a statement.
>
> A Wipro spokeswoman said the question of abusing any type of visa
> regulation did not arise and the company complied with the
> requirements of the visa laws.
>
> "We believe that we are in total compliance with the requirements of
> visa laws. The question of their abuse does not arise," he told PTI.
>
> The two companies were responding to the US labour organisations'
> allegation that Indian firms, namely Infosys, Wipro, TCS, had been
> acting as "bodyshops", sending Indian workers to the US through the
> L-1 system and then subcontracting them out to other businesses.
>
> Infosys said L-1 visa regulations stipulated that only employees with
> specialised knowledge or holding managerial or executive positions
> could file an application.
>
> "Most of our employees stay in the US for the duration of the project,
> which is typically one to two years, and return to the home country,"
> Nilekani said.
>
> Infosys continues to work with governments and consulates of the
> countries in which it operates in order to ensure that it fully
> understands and correctly interprets the immigration regulations, the
> statement said.
>
> Michael W Gildea, executive director of the Department of Professional
> Employees, AFL-CIO, US's largest labour federation, addressing the
> House International Relations
>
> Committee on Wednesday, accused Indian IT firms such as TCS, Infosys
> and Wipro of "abusing" the L-1 visa programme to bring in cheap
> manpower to take over American jobs.