Visa Talk

Filed in archive Outsourcing News on June 27, 2007

One of the benefits which outsourcing companies offer to their employees is a chance to work in the US.

US senators are expressing their concern about the growing number of outsourcing employees who have availed of this kind of privilege. There are two types of visa commonly given to these companies. These are:

L-1 visas - used by multinational companies to transfer foreign workers from their overseas operations to work temporarily in their US operations.

H-1B visas - used to employ foreign tech workers in the United States.

In terms of the top companies requesting for these visas, here is top 20 list released by Durbin and Grassley.

1. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., 4,887 L-1 visas
2. Cognizant Tech Solutions U.S. Corp., 3,520 L-1 visas
3. IBM, 1,237 L-1 visas
4. Satyam Computer Services Ltd., 950 L-1 visas
5. Wipro Ltd., 839 L-1 visas
6. HCL America Inc., 511 L-1 visas
7. Deloitte & Touche LLP/Deloitte Consulting, 512 L-1 visas
8. Patni Computer Systems, 440 L-1 visas
9. Intel, 392 L-1 visas
10. Kanbay Inc., 329 L-1 visas
11. honeywell International, 320 L-1 visas
12. Hewlett-Packard, 316 L-1 visas
13. Infosys Tech. Ltd., 294 L-1 visas
14. Accenture LLP, 291 L-1 visas
15. Caritor Inc., 231 L-1 visas
16. Schlumberger Technology Corp., 214 L-1 visas
17. Oracle USA Inc., 176 L-1 visas
18. Syntel Ltd., 171 L-1 visas
19. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, 168 L-1 visas
20. Microsoft, 168 L-1 visas