Foreign Talent Is Appreciated By The Tech Firms

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Foreign Talent Is Appreciated By The Tech Firms

28th December 2009

In spite of the economy which is slumping greatly, the IT companies of America and also the subsidiaries based in the United States of the offshore companies are continuing to greatly recruit such workers which are from India and from many of the other foreign countries. According to the data, which has been released by the Citizenship and Immigration Services of the United States, till the 8th of December, the companies which are operating in the United States had filed greater than 81,500 of the applications for the visas of H-1B since the start if the current fiscal year of the government i.e. from the month of October.

The program of H1-B helps the companies for bringing the skilled immigrants who meet some of the specific conditions in the country for more than 6 years. A maximum of the 65,000 of the ordinary H1-B visas have been issued by the government of the United States during one fiscal year, and additional 20,000 of the H1-B to the foreign nations who are holding some of the advanced degrees, which means that the program contains a total cap of 85,000 of the visas. Only 4,000 of the H1-B visa slots are remaining and the those foreign tech workers who do not get a visa during the year, will have to wait till the month of October of the next year.