not anymore Hueyone, that was the past. This article is about the L1, which I know for certain is being abused at applied materials by this very firm Tata (L1s are 6mos visas, they bring in new workers every 6mos if you can believe that and the management has to constantly train these people)... but there was a vote a few weeks ago to actually increase H1-Bs and it didn't pass. I think these visas are going to be sharply curtailed almost immediately.
Feinstein seeking changes in skilled-worker visas
Washington -- Congress appears inclined to clamp down on at least one category of visa for skilled workers, the L-1, that many complain is being used to displace U.S. workers, particularly in the high-tech industry.
Former supporters of increasing the number of visas for foreign high-tech workers -- including Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. -- are now calling for a halt to what they call abuses of the L-1 visa, which is intended to allow a company's foreign managers, executives and workers with "specialized knowledge" to transfer to that company's U.S. operations.
"Four years ago . . . I had CEOs come to me and tell me they need more H-1B visas, and I bought the argument," Feinstein said in a hearing Tuesday by the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
But at the hearing, Feinstein expressed outrage over the case, clearly widely circulated in Congress, of Patricia Fluno, a $98,000-a-year computer programmer from Orlando, Fla., who was laid off by Siemens Technologies, which transferred her job and others to an Indian company called Tata Consulting Services.
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