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What the are you talking about? Europeans offshoring for years and
years? Oh! wait a minute, I think you might be just a little bit out
of touch here.

supreme4007 <user121@peoplepc.com> wrote in message news:<40228F8F.8184A099@peoplepc.com>...
> 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.